Ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) made a dramatic return to the Senate today, interrupting his cancer treatments to travel to Washington and cast the decisive vote in favor of proceeding to final passage on a Medicare bill.

By Lori Montgomery The Senate voted Thursday to keep nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts in its overhaul of the health care system, protecting the bill's major source of financing against a Republican attack. On a vote of 58 to 42, the Senate rejected...

By Ben Pershing The House approved Thursday a measure making the current estate tax rate permanent, overcoming the objections of an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative critics. The bill passed, 225 to 200, with 26 Democrats joining all...

By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) scuttled the proposed "war tax" to finance the increased troop deployment to Afghanistan, telling reporters Thursday that she would oppose the idea from her closest allies in the...

By Ben Pershing The White House jobs summit opens today amid concerns on Capitol Hill that the administration has not done enough to address unemployment and uncertainty over how and when Congress can deliver a jobs bill to the president's desk....

By Paul Kane Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has requested that every House member receive a top-level briefing on President Obama's request for 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan, according to a senior aide -- an unusual move demonstrating the...