“Congress” on The Daily Caller

Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members’ financial disclosure forms. (more)

By using the term “Republican Congress,” says New York GOP congressman Tom Reed, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are “forgetting” that their party controls the Senate. (more)

For a sitting congressman, there are few things worse than being advised what to do by a “former.” So, it is in this spirit that I tread cautiously on the most important issues now in front of the House and Senate. (more)

Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that congressional opposition to the American Jobs Act is akin to the Confederate “states in rebellion.” (more)

Republican House Speaker John Boehner reacted to President Barack Obama’s decision to ask his Jobs Council to find areas of his jobs plan to implement without congressional approval, saying that Congress will “continue” to “control the purse strings.” (more)

Congress’ job approval has dropped to tie with the all-time low ever measured, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday dismissed a Senate bill that could punish China for undervaluing its currency, saying it was “pretty dangerous” for Congress to tell another country how to run its monetary policy. (more)

More than a few observers last month remarked that raising taxes, and giving Congress even more money to spend, is akin to handing a bottle of whiskey to a habitual drunk. They’re probably right — and the comparison just might point in a helpful direction. (more)

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One takeaway from last week’s special election in New York’s heavily Jewish Ninth Congressional District is the idea that President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are losing the support of the Jewish community as they head into the 2012 election season. New York Times columnist David Brooks, however, cautions against jumping to the wrong conclusion. (more)

The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony. (more)

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) is taking that whole “we need to tighten our belts” thing seriously. He will introduce a bill this fall to end the “defined benefit” portion of the congressional retirement plan, National Journal reports. (more)

Despite the successful and headline-grabbing launch of Google+, only 13 members of the U.S. Senate and 15 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have established profiles on the new social networking site, far fewer than the number from each chamber who are active on Facebook and Twitter. (more)

Our national hue and cry about balancing the federal budget is nothing new. Balanced-budget-amendment proposals emerge, cicada-like, about every 13 years. After 15 minutes of fame, they typically go underground again. (more)

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) and Our Generation (OG) advocacy groups released a report Wednesday showing that federal legislators earn 3.4 times more than the average full-time American worker, and are among the highest paid legislators in the industrialized world. (more)

After President Obama’s prime time plea to the American people last night to call their Congressman if they “believe we can solve this problem through compromise,” Congress’s switchboards are ringing off the hook, the Washington Post reports. (more)

House Republicans have proposed cutting federal spending on highways and transit by 30 percent. The plan, presented on Thursday, July 7, would severely reduce federal spending in accordance with House rules that spending cannot exceed receipts. (more)

If the elections were held today, Ricky Gill would be too young to serve in Congress, but the 24-year-old Republican running to represent California’s 11th congressional district already raised nearly half a million dollars in preparation for Election Day 2012. (more)

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is questioning the priorities of lawmakers criticizing the U.S. intervention in Libya. (more)

When the U.S. Senate recently voted — by a whopping 73-27 margin — to end the 45-cents-per-gallon tax credit for ethanol, it did more than deal a glancing blow to a politically pampered product. It sent a signal that not even Big Corn, which for decades held Washington politicians in its iron grip, is safe from the harsh fiscal realities of a sputtering economy. (more)