Speaking on an ABC News Web cast, Rep. Chris Van Hollen said that when former Rep. Eric Massa resigned his seat, “the complaints filed with the ethics committee went away.”

Looking to challenge a time-honored privilege widely used by both parties when they are in the minority, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday vowed to remove the filibuster as a weapon to kill legislation by debating it to death.

The president’s speech comes as congressional Democrats stand on the brink of delivering the president a success with passage of his sweeping overhaul legislation — or a colossal failure if they can’t get it done.

An intelligence official says that in the two months since a Nigerian man tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane, the government’s list of suspected terrorists banned from flying grew from about 3,400 to 6,000.

Without giving specifics, the defense secretary said the withdrawal, “would have to be conditions-based.”

Grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system, the president says he’ll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud.

President Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision during the January address, with six of the court’s nine justices seated before him in their black robes.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’ll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.

President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Tuesday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece’s enormous debts sparked frenzied trading.

HarperCollins announced Tuesday that it will publish Brown’s memoir, currently untitled, in early 2011.