HOUSE GOP PUSHES TAX RELIEF EXTENSION
Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., calls for extension of tax cuts during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on December 7, 2005. The Republicans say the U.S. economy is doing well, in large part to the tax cuts they have pushed through. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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The U.S. House approved a bill Friday that would force the Securities and Exchange Commission to review rules considered to be stalling job creation.
A vote on repealing the Affordable Care Act will be scheduled for the House of Representatives soon, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Friday.
Congressional Republicans have declared victory following the decision to ease the effect of the sequester on U.S. air traffic control.
Republican U.S. House members expressed concern fractures within the party may hurt its efforts during debt-ceiling talks this summer, The Hill reported Friday.
U.S. House leaders Wednesday pulled back a bill to modify Obamacare amid criticism from Republican hard-liners who wanted another vote on a complete repeal.
The four young black girls killed in a 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., are being honored by Congress.
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U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, was moved to tears by an apology from the Montgomery, Ala., police chief for an incident in 1961.
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