Read more Congress stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/89/congress.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:00:45 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74647/zip-it-on-communion-ban-bishop-to-kennedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe bishop who had the nerve to tell a Kennedy not to take communion—because he supports abortion rights—is steamed that he blabbed about it. “I am disappointed that the congressman would make public my pastoral and confidential request,” says Bishop Thomas Tobin of Patrick Kennedy. He also says...http://www.newser.com/story/74647/zip-it-on-communion-ban-bishop-to-kennedy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 13:21:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74609/congress-new-whipping-boy-the-fed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Fed Chair Ben Bernanke goes before Congress next month seeking a second term, he'll run straight into cantankerous legislators riding a tide of populist rage over the Wall Street bailout and high unemployment. While the Fed acted decisively to bail out the financial markets last year, it's widely viewed...http://www.newser.com/story/74609/congress-new-whipping-boy-the-fed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 8:54:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74491/hoffman-cant-catch-owens-in-ny-23-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt looks like the NY-23 race is over, again. With 3,072 absentee ballots left to be counted, conservative Doug Hoffman can't catch Democrat Bill Owens, who leads by 3,176 votes. State officials haven't called the race and won't until it's formally wrapped up, but the Watertown Daily Times...http://www.newser.com/story/74491/hoffman-cant-catch-owens-in-ny-23-race.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 7:23:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74406/senators-see-upcoming-vote-on-obama-not-health.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe upcoming Senate debate on health care reform, like the House vote before it, will be more a referendum on President Obama than a reflection of constituents’ concerns, Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver, and Daniel Lee write. What happened in the House is clear: 31 of 39 Democrats who voted no...http://www.newser.com/story/74406/senators-see-upcoming-vote-on-obama-not-health.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 10:18:20 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74352/gop-traffic-jam-ploy-is-snarling-senate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSenate Democrats are starting to turn on each other like angry drivers stuck in rush-hour traffic thanks to Republican obstructionism, writes EJ Dionne. Republican senators are eating every word they once said against filibusterism and are stalling even legislation that they support in a Machiavellian effort to keep the Democrats...http://www.newser.com/story/74352/gop-traffic-jam-ploy-is-snarling-senate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Nov 2009 9:43:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74328/reid-optimistic-about-60-votes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHarry Reid is “cautiously optimistic” about the success of his frantic attempts to unite the 60 votes of his caucus behind the Senate health care reform bill. “I think we’re together,” he says. But the majority leader was positively voluble about the bill itself, notes the Washington Post : “Of all...http://www.newser.com/story/74328/reid-optimistic-about-60-votes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74241/conservative-kids-book-vilifies-pelosi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHelp! Mom! The Radicals Are Ruining My Country! sounds like what it is: A picture book aimed at conservative children—or maybe the children of conservative parents. In any case, a tiara-wearing Nancy Pelosi features prominently, and she ain’t a Santa Claus figure, notes Boing Boing . The book, which follows...http://www.newser.com/story/74241/conservative-kids-book-vilifies-pelosi.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 13:42:05 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74127/stupak-is-the-last-straw-no-more-caving.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPainting the Stupak-Pitts amendment as a necessary evil—a concession women should make for the “greater good” of health care reform—is ridiculous, Katha Pollitt writes. Women have been consistently sidelined by the “theocrats and male chauvinists” throwing their weight around in the Democratic Party. “Why don't you take one...http://www.newser.com/story/74127/stupak-is-the-last-straw-no-more-caving.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 11:12:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73980/goldman-to-insurers-health-reform-will-hurt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHere's a reason for Goldman Sachs to be even more popular with the public: The investment bank has issued research on private health insurers advising that fighting off reform would best for their bottom line. Goldman takes as the “base” case passage of the bill that exited the Senate Finance...http://www.newser.com/story/73980/goldman-to-insurers-health-reform-will-hurt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 13 Nov 2009 9:48:15 CST