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WashPost: President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory ethics briefings next week.

With spiraling war and hurricane recovery costs, the pork-laden $286 billion highway bill that sailed through Congress last summer has become a political albatross for Republicans.

The 2008 Democratic National Convention will be held Monday, Aug. 25, through Thursday, Aug. 28, after the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

A battle over deep cuts to popular federal programs like Medicaid and food stamps promises to intensify next week in the House despite relatively smooth sailing in the Senate.

Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio has been subpoenaed to provide documents related to the government’s probe of indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Bush would get millions of dollars more than he requested to fight AIDS but less than he sought for Iraq reconstruction, under a foreign aid bill passed Friday by the House.

For senators seeking the presidency, becoming a foreign policy wonk isn’t necessarily the route to success: Democrats Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, and John Kerry and Republican John McCain all had foreign policy credentials and all fell short in their ques

On a quiet Indian summer afternoon Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid dramatically wrenched the political agenda from the Republican majority Monday by forcing the Senate into secret session.

It is symbolic of the Senate battle ahead that one of federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito’s best-known dissents from the bench was rejected by the woman he would replace on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.