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Republicans score a midterm election victory in winning a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Barack Obama grew up.

Republicans are on offense in scores of House and Senate races as persistent economic woes and lukewarm support for President Barack Obama continue to weaken Democrats' hold on Congress....

The measure passes the Senate and House largely along partisan lines, with most Republicans opposed. By Richard Simon President Obama signed an extension of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed Thursday night that will allow those whose aid ...

In a major victory for the president, Democratic leaders get the Senate version passed, then engineer passage of a package designed to reconcile that bill and the one OKd by the House last year.

Delivering a hard-fought victory in President Obama's yearlong pursuit of a national healthcare overhaul, a divided House narrowly approved legislation Sunday night that could reshape the way Americans deal with wellness and illness.

The hard-fought measure would be a victory for President Obama - and, he says, for the American people. The House of Representatives was poised Sunday to pass a sweeping overhaul of the healthcare system and, in the process, hand President Obama a major political victory on the issue he has made the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote today on a sweeping health care reform bill already passed by the Senate. If the bill is approved, President Obama will sign it into law.

Claiming unstoppable momentum but still short of the goal line, President Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to rally House Democrats ...

As lawmakers take a recess, several Dems ready to give in if it means getting the trillion-dollar bill to Obama quickly.

In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry.

The House of Representatives was expected to approve the biggest changes in financial regulation since the Great Depression on Friday, marking a win for the Obama administration.