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President Obama said the new package of legislation would make it easier for millions of homeowners to refinance at today’s historically low interest rates.

Protests on Wednesday quickly cut into support for two Internet piracy bills as Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, said he would no longer back the legislation he co-sponsored.

WASHINGTON: The House last night passed legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to hold incentive auctions for broadcast spectrum.

Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about the outlook for legislation to extend a payroll tax cut that is set to expire at the end of the year and the performance of the U.S. economy.

NEW YORK -- Legislation known as the Durbin Amendment that limits fees banks can charge retailers on debit card transactions is proving more damaging than previously thought, according to analysts.

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts does not intend to seek re-election in 2012, his office said Monday, closing out a career of more than three decades in Congress capped by last year's passage of legislation imposing new regulations on Wall Street.

President Obama promised to veto any legislation that seeks to avoid the automatic cuts that negotiators agreed would go into effect if a deal is not reached by 2013.

To borrow from the old blessing or curse, we live in interesting times. The world economy is a mess, unemployment is hovering at near-record levels, and the federal government seems incapable of passing even the most obviously needed legislation.

One of the politicians instrumental in creating the TSA, Rep. John Mica, who wrote the legislation that established the TSA, has apparently decided that the whole thing has been a failure and should be dismantled.

He notes that "the whole...

Moody's Investors Service says the United States will retain its triple-A bond rating following passage of legislation to boost the debt ceiling.

But the rating agency says it is lowering the outlook for possible future changes to negative.