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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, is able to speak, her spokesman says. She asked for a piece of toast, said C.J. Karamargin.

The proposed reductions fall short of the $100 billion in cuts Republicans campaigned for last fall but represent substantial hits to various programs including law enforcement, NASA, the EPA and arts funds.

Several news organizations are reporting that veteran Rep. Jane Harman, a California Democrat, is about to leave Congress to become head of a prominent foreign policy think tank. Harman is telling supporters via e-mail that she is leaving the U.S. House to become president of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.

Republicans now running the House are barely touching Congress' generous own budget even as they take a cleaver to many domestic agencies....

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives will seek $32 billion in spending cuts from current levels this year as part of an effort to reduce a forecasted $1.5 trillion deficit.

Doctors for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have upgraded her condition from serious to good, and said she may be transferred to a nearby rehabilitation hospital Wednesday morning.

The Republican-led House of Representatives passed legislation that would repeal President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law on Wednesday in a mostly symbolic move likely to be scuttled in the Senate.

GOP House leaders plan a vote on a repeal of President Obama's health care overhaul this week, fulfilling a campaign promise and setting up a clash with Democrats.

The husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says his wife's condition has improved so much that she has been able to smile and give him a neck rub as he has kept a near-constant vigil at her hospital bedside....

A friend of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, critically injured in the Tucson shootings, says she's 'making progress every day.' Funerals for those killed in the rampage continue today.U.S. Rep.