"Stabilizing the housing market is central to restoring the American economy," the Democratic leadership said in a fact sheet distributed Wednesday to encourage lawmakers to back the measure.
One video distributed Wednesday shows a group of men laid out on blankets, their grisly wounds as visible as the anguish on the faces of onlookers.
"Seize every opportunity to hold Democrats accountable for their role in creating the economic crisis," Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican leader, urged his colleagues in a memorandum distributed Wednesday.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 — A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government's nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential memorandum distributed Wednesday to public and private security officials by the Department of Homeland Security.
"Lack of competition has meant few choices and high prices for consumers -- on average, $231 in rental fees annually for the average American household," Wheeler said in a statement distributed Wednesday.
The response from Exxon Mobil directors to the shareholder proposals will be included in the proxy statement distributed Wednesday, said Alan Jeffers, a spokesman for the Irving, Texas, company.
