Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) today challenged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice over the Administration's efforts to press legislators to oppose the Armenian Genocide Resolution, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

The House passed a resolution condemning the State Department for its refusal to divulge public details on Iraqi corruption in a new showdown with the Bush administration over the war and its classification policies.

Armenian genocide resolution H. Res. 106 is in process of discussion and critical vote nears in few minutes. Below is the opening statement by the chairman of House Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos.

Gen. David Petraeus says he believes the U.S. military will be able to reduce forces to pre-surge levels by next summer.

Ohio republican congressman Paul Gillmor is found dead in his apartment, CNN reported just few minutes ago. CNN Says Congressman Gillmor's death is confirmed and the cause is not determined yet.

Iraq has met only three out of 18 goals set by Washington for political and security progress, according to a draft of a key Iraq report being prepared for Congress, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Bleak prospects of Iraq war with Baghdad unable to make significant progress have given rise to revolt in Congress.

The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value, and based in the United States, could not have been any less publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all laws of reason.

The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to fund the Iraq war on an instalment plan, a move quickly rejected by President George W Bush as "haphazard".

Congress failed to override President George W Bush's veto of legislation requiring the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, a defeat for anti-war Democrats that triggered immediate work on new legislation to pay for the war. Wednesday's vote in the House was 222-203, 62 shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

The U.S. Congressional Commission on International Religious Freedom says religious freedom is lagging in Turkey, Russia, Belarus, and several other countries.

Congressional investigators probing the $85 billion student loan market pushed into new areas by raising concerns about collection tactics and seeking an inquiry into possible conflicts of interest inside the U.S. Education Department.