On Friday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee, announced an agreement that could allow health crea reform to clear his committe. He said the agreement supplements a deal already struck Wednesday with the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative Democrats on his panel.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to impeach a federal judge for obstruction of justice while in office for lying to investigators about allegations of sexual misconduct.

YEREVAN--In a letter to the chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Howard Berman, the Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Armen Rustamian on Thursday expressed his strong support for US affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, stressing that US recognition would be the greatest contributor to the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations.

Amazingly fast, since the final vote on the first Senate proposal took place only Tuesday, the House and Senate came to quick agreement on a reconciled stimulus package on Wednesday. Or did they?

U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, has died. He was 80 years old.

The Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday said it will hold hearings after the July 4 congressional recess on taxation of private-equity firms and related issues, Reuters reported.

The U.S House of Representatives takes up legislation Thursday to fund ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq no later than September 2008. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, majority Democrats have fought hard to ensure they have the votes to pass the bill, which President Bush has threatened to veto in its current form.