With the public still furious over bank bailouts, Democrats desperate to keep President Barack Obama's old Senate seat are scrambling to counter revelations that a bank owned by their candidate's family may be nearing collapse.

The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island.

A US senator on Tuesday warned advocates of escalating a trade dispute with Brazil that the South American giant would have a lot of friends around the world if Washington took such action.

CQPolitics.com - House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer vowed Tuesday to resolve the dispute over abortion language that threatens to sink Democrats' efforts to enact a health care overhaul.

CQPolitics.com - Even as President Obama and congressional Democrats struggle to finish a health care overhaul, they are ramping up efforts to rally support for a comprehensive energy and climate change bill.

AP - The House's No. 2 Democrat is dismissing as absurd former Rep. Eric Massa's claims that he was forced out by party leaders because of his opposition to health care legislation.

The White House and one of its top allies in the US Congress feuded Tuesday over a target date for enacting President Barack Obama's historic but embattled health care reform bill this month.

Politico - The House of Representatives accepted the resignation of Rep. Eric Massa on Tuesday, just hours after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer dismissed as “absurd” and “untrue” his claim that he was pushed out because of his opposition to the Democrats’ health care bill.

CQPolitics.com - In what is shaping up to be a turbulent election year, with voters disgusted with Congress and disenchanted with both major political parties, could term limits re-emerge as a salient issue?

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.