Last week, The Gavel reported that the Chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, George Miller, requested information from the Department of Education regarding the Student Loan Express stock held by at least one senior member of the Office of Federal Student… Continue

Speaker Pelosi issued the following statement in response to President Bush’s remarks on immigration reform today: The President should work collaboratively and on a bipartisan basis to pass comprehensive immigration reform. He should embrace proposals such as the STRIVE Act by Congressmen… Continue

The New York Times reported today that: A senior official at the federal Education Department sold more than $100,000 in shares in a student loan company even as he was helping oversee lenders in the federal student loan program. The official, Matteo… Continue

Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, reacted to the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today saying, “If anyone still harbored doubts that carbon dioxide was a… Continue

Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their fourth assessment report on the the present stage of climate change around the world entitled, “Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.” It provides a rigorous analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and… Continue

Today, the Washington Post published an editorial attacking Speaker Pelosi’s bipartisan delegation trip to the Middle East. In a telling sign, the poisonous editorial contradicts the Post’s own reporting on the Speaker’s visit to Syria. The Facts Speaker Pelosi accurately relayed a… Continue

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) released the following statement in response to GOP criticism of efforts to standardize the grammar and use of terms in the Fiscal Year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Each year, the members and staff… Continue

Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman John Murtha: “I have just been informed that the 4th Infantry Division is preparing to deploy to Iraq with only eight months at home and without the appropriate training. This is unacceptable. “The stress on our military due… Continue

Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman writes to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan requesting emails stored on Republican National Committee servers related to the use of federal resources for political purposes. Full letter: April 4, 2007 Mike Duncan Chairman Republican National Committee 310 First… Continue

Today, Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey made the following remarks at a public forum at the University of Wisconsin in response to the President's attack on Congressional Democrats yesterday: “The President is crying crocodile tears about the fact that the Congress has… Continue