President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats court female voters by pushing a bill that calls for equal pay in the workplace.

The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contraception insurance coverage.

The Senate is considering GOP legislation, steeped in election-year politics,to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on birth control coverage.

It's looking like President Barack Obama may be back in the good graces of women.

President Barack Obama is reaping political benefits from the country's brighter economic mood.

Their isolation complete, House Republicans on Thursday caved to demands by President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats and fellow Republicans for a short-term renewal of payroll tax cuts for all workers.

A Republican-led House panel has asked the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to hand over more than a decade's worth of documents in a probe of whether the organization improperly spends public money on abortions.

The nation's Republican governors, seeking a voice in Congress' upcoming debt debate, pushed Tuesday for looser restrictions on how states spend money on health care for poor and disabled Americans.