WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats on Monday to require political fundraising groups to reveal their anonymous contributors who are fueling negative television advertisements ahead of the November election.

By a 51-44 party line vote, supporters of the Disclose Act of 2012 fell short of the 60 votes needed to clear a Republican procedural hurdle.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S.
House of Representatives, on a near party-line vote of 2 44- 1 85,
passed a bill on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama’s
overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

Just like previous House efforts to end all or parts of the
two-year-old healthcare law, the bill is certain to be stopped
by Obama’s fellow Democrats who control the Senate.

WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S.
House of Representatives headed toward a symbolic and mostly
party-line vote on Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama’s
overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

With both sides jockeying for position in the Nov. 6
elections, the House was certain to pass a bill to end the
2-year-old healthcare law. And the Democratic-led Senate was
just as certain to reject the bill and allow the law to stand.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, they have introduced by their own count 30 bills to get rid of or gut the law they call “Obamacare,” bearing titles such as the “Reclaiming Individual Liberty Act,” the “repeal the Job killing health care law” act and the “NObamacare Act of 2012.”

On Tuesday they began debate on the 31st, the “Repeal of the Obamacare Act,” which is certain to win passage when the House votes on Wednesday and just as certain to go no further, since the Senate and White House are both in Democratic hands.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress gave final approval on Friday to a massive job-creating U.S. transportation bill that under a bipartisan deal will also keep interest rates low for millions of federal student loans and maintain federal flood insurance.

The Republican-led House of Representatives and Democratic-led Senate passed the measure on back-to-back votes, clearing the way for President Barack Obama to sign it into law.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan bill to fund a massive job-creating transportation bill, retain low interest rates for millions of student loans, and maintain national flood insurance won approval on Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

On a vote of 373-52, the House sent the measure to the Senate for anticipated concurrence later in the day, which would clear the way for President Barack Obama to sign it into law.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to announce a decision on President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, one of the legislation’s chief supporters predicted that it would be upheld by a 6-3 vote.

Nancy Pelosi, the House of Representatives’ Democratic leader, said she can see Chief Justice John Roberts siding with Obama in an anticipated divided Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder faces a contempt vote by the House of Representatives on Thursday in a dispute involving a botched gun-running probe, and the chamber’s top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, said some in her party are expected to line up with Republicans against him.

The Republican-led House is scheduled to vote on Thursday on whether to charge the nation’s top law enforcement officer with contempt of Congress related to his withholding of documents in the “Fast and Furious” gun-running sting operation on the U.S.-Mexico border.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. congressional negotiators neared a pair of election-year deals on Tuesday – one for a massive job-creating transportation bill, the other to prevent a doubling of student-loan interest rates, said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Reid, a Democrat, said it was possible that final bipartisan agreements could be reached on both long-stalled pieces of legislation before lawmakers leave at week’s end for a holiday recess.