The Kingdom Come

Congress has passed legislation extending jobless benefits through the December holidays, keeping checks flowing to laid-off workers who would otherwise lose them.

House Democrats on Wednesday used a secret ballot to indicate their choice for the next chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee. If the secret ballot is good for lawmakers, why would those same Democrats deny it to employees taking part in union elections, House Republicans asked.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano was among the first of the Democratic governors to commit to Obama's presidential bid.

A federal cap-and-trade bill is the best way to protect America's economic interests and environmental health, according to corporate leaders and environmental activists with the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP).

Barack Obama, the president-elect who promised change, is enlisting former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building.

APEC foreign ministers meeting in Lima to prepare for the weekend summit agreed Wednesday that a long-delayed global trade deal should be concluded quickly – preferably by the end of the year – in response to the global economic crisis.

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle "have every right" to send their children to public or private school, and no one should "criticize" their decision, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said.

A comprehensive "amnesty" bill to provide illegal aliens a path to citizenship is unlikely to pass the U.S. Senate next year because Republicans will be more united in opposition and Democrats will be reticent to burn political capital on the issue,  a public policy group said.

House Republicans are not shifting to the political right, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday, just hours after two of the top three GOP leadership spots were won by conservative lawmakers in an internal leadership election.