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Super Committee receives budget recommendations, progress on policy unknown
House and Senate committees faced an Oct. 14 deadline for submitting recommendations for budget cuts and reforms to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. The latter group, often referred
Spotlight: Super Congress appointees revealed
Congressional leaders have named the 12 lawmakers who compose the " Super Congress ," officially known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)
A hack attack on Congress
Hackers recently walked into the lion's den and snared a big win by defacing 49 House websites in the hours after the State of the Union address last week. It's clear this was more than a random
SPOTLIGHT: Quarterly House expense reports go online
The House of Representatives is taking transparency as seriously as President Obama. For the first time, it has posted quarterly expense reports for House offices on the Internet. Previously, the
P2P breach hits Congress
Congress is looking a little sheepish right now after confidential information about House Ethics Committee investigations were loaded onto public file-sharing computer networks and became available
Congress to skip next year's pay raise
When times are tough, it's sort of hypocritical for Congress to keep giving itself a pay raise every year. In 2010, members of Congress won't receive their annual pay raise known as a cost of living
Congressman gets in trouble over Twitter
Rep. Pete Hoekstra says he did nothing wrong when he used his Twitter page to update the public on his precise locations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Hoekstra's action prompted the Pentagon to review
