Democrat News

California Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez is pregnant with her first child.

Sanchez, 39, is due May 21 and plans to marry her boyfriend of a year and a half, consultant Jim Sullivan, her spokeswoman Marsha Catron said Thursday.

The two met through a mutual friend, Rep. John Larson, D-Conn. No wedding date has been set.

'I've been called a labor leader, U.S. representative, chairwoman, and now I will be proud to be called 'mom,'' Sanchez said in a statement.

'I know that working mothers everywhere balance their time with parenthood and a career, and a congresswoman is no different,' she said. 'The only thing I am worried about balancing with this pregnancy are my favorite pair of heels!'

BC-OH--DHL Jobs-Grant,0139 Southwest Ohio to get $3.87M for job help Eds: APNewsNow.

Black leaders in Congress don't expect to have an especially close relationship with President-elect Barack Obama.

That attitude reflects in part Obama's nontraditional path to the presidency: He didn't pass through the crucible of civil rights and form alliances there.

As if trying to make the point, Congressional Black Caucus members announcing their new leadership at a news conference Thursday didn't even mention Obama's name until asked by reporters.

The all-Democratic, 43-member group has had a somewhat uneasy relationship with the president-elect, who for four years when he represented Illinois in the Senate rarely participated in caucus activities. Some black lawmakers wished he had been more involved.

What's so bad about bankruptcy as an alternative to big bailouts for automakers or other critical U.S. companies? Frozen credit and the hardships of a Chapter 11 reorganization make it a tough pill to swallow ...

Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat, under regulations the Bush ...

House Republicans on Wednesday re-elected John Boehner as leader of their depleted ranks while putting together a more conservative team to represent them in the next, Democratic-controlled, Congress.

A spokeswoman for Rep. Henry Waxman says he's been selected by a key leadership panel to replace veteran Chairman John Dingell as head of a crucial House committee with jurisdiction over energy and global ...

Political News: Get the latest news, video, and polls! CNN is reporting President-elect Barack Obama has picked Former Senator Tom Daschle as his new Health & Human Services Secretary.

The top Senate Banking Committee Republican says nothing will turn around the troubled U.S. auto industry until its top management is ousted and the manufacturing model overhauled.

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn't survive a ...

Pride Campus planners never shied away from touting one of Chicago's latest proposed high schools as a haven for gay youth seeking refuge from sometimes hostile traditional classrooms.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star -- President-elect Barack Obama.

Federal judges will hear arguments about whether Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha should have to give a sworn deposition about his comments alleging 'cold-blooded murder and war crimes' by unnamed Marines in connection with Iraqi civilian deaths in Haditha.

The case goes before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday morning.

The lawsuit was filed by Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the only person still facing charges in the Haditha case.

The Justice Department wanted the case dismissed because Murtha was acting in his official role when he made the comments on Capitol Hill in 2005.

Sen. Joe Lieberman appears increasingly likely to hold onto his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee as he meets Tuesday with Democratic colleagues unhappy over his vocal support for ...

The two top salesmen for a $700 billion financial bailout are in for a grilling by Capitol Hill lawmakers just one week after the administration officially ditched the original strategy behind the rescue.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are expected to provide greater insights into the shift when they testify Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee.

Paulson, who is overseeing the bailout program for the Bush administration, changed course and announced last week that the government would not use any of the money to buy rotten mortgages and other bad assets from banks. That had been the centerpiece of the plan when Paulson and Bernanke originally pitched it to lawmakers.

How to Fix the Big Three - Interview with Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan

Hillary Rodham Clinton is President-elect Barack Obama's first choice for secretary of State but his aides are becoming exasperated by the Clinton camp's pokey response to demands for extensive information ...

Loading... The carrier George H.W. Bush is christened in October 2006 at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News.

Hillary Clinton would be "a very good selection" as secretary of state, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyle of Arizona, said in an interview with Fox News Sunday morning.

Several Ohio lawmakers are demanding more information about the sale of National City Bank to Pittsburgh's PNC Financial Services Group.