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Yesterday the Appropriations subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs held a hearing, "Assessing an Effective Diplomatic and Development Program in Iraq: An Examination of the 'Diplomatic Surge.'"

Watch the hearing replayed on C Span 3.

Subcommittee Chair Nita Lowey gave opening remarks:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Representatives Bobby Rush, Rosa DeLauro, Bart Stupak, and Diana DeGette and consumer advocate Donald Mays held a news conference in the Capitol this afternoon on Democratic efforts to promote consumer product and toy safety. Speaker Pelosi announced new comprehensive legislation coming:

Today Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ask who conferred immunity on the Blackwater security guards involved in the September 16 shooting, who authorized the grant of immunity, and w

You would think that the President would take pride in the New Direction Congress' bipartisan votes to make America safer by implementing the 9/11 Commission recommendations, give hard-working Americans a raise by increasing the minimum wage, make college more affordable for many more Americans, pass an Innovation Agenda to keep America number one, and uphold a high ethical standard by passing a s

The Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is currently holding a hearing, "Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice." John K.

Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued the following statement after Congressional Republicans met with President Bush:

The Foreign Affairs Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Russia on the Eve of National Elections." Witnesses will be Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution, and Andrei Piontkovsky, Ph.D., Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute.

From the Oversight Committee: