The Senate voted along strict party lines Saturday night to proceed with a floor debate on Majority Leader Harry Reid's $848 billion health care bill.

CNN's John King looks at two men on different sides of the health debate and their senator caught in the middle.

Opinion about which political party is responsible for the recession is shifting, according to a new poll.

Most cardholders never read the long complicated legalese in a credit card agreement -- and that could spell trouble.

Traditional Senate decorum yielded to brass-knuckle politicking before a key procedural vote.

To debate or not to debate the Senate's health care reform bill; that is the question.

The Senate Ethics Committee issued a letter Friday clearing embattled Illinois Sen. Roland Burris of any legal wrongdoing.

The U.S. government has no right to restrict American tourists from traveling to Cuba, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday.

A former security guard at a New Jersey airport who was accused of making threats against the president is expected to be released from jail Thursday after a judge determined that he is not a threat to himself or others, the prosecutor's office said.

A key congressional committee on Thursday opened its investigation into the November 5 Fort Hood shootings with a pledge to find out whether authorities failed to "connect the dots" and could have prevented the attack.