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Researchers at the University at Buffalo are defending a government-funded project that has drawn the ire of Former Presidential Candidate Senator John McCain . The project studies the habits of Western New Yorkers who like to get drunk and high.
Despite Obama's historic victory, Rep. Artur Davis is still facing Dixie tradition.
The law renewing "county payments," federal compensation for lost logging revenue now distributes cash to 41 states
After last year’s historic presidential campaign, a new season of opportunity seemed at hand for African-American candidates in the South. Not only had a black man been elected president, he had carried Virginia and North Carolina along the way.
Call it a contradiction or widespread dichotomy. Many critics of proposed health-care reforms are senior citizens who say the government has no business getting involved in health care. Yet most seniors owe the high level of care and benefits they have entirely to the government. Is the government a victim of its own success?
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Update at 4:45 p.m. Sarah Palin has arrived early at the Reno Costco and is signing copies of her book, 'Going Rogue.' She began about 45 minutes earlier than anticipated.
Senate Republicans predicted on Wednesday that the 40 members of their caucus would unanimously oppose health care reform despite changes made by Democratic leadership to make the product more palatable to conservatives.
GOP Senators Highlight Wasteful Projects Funded by Obama Administration's Stimulus Plan
The right-wing misinformation machine is in full swing. And that machine doesn't have its final cylinder cranking until Sarah Palin jumps into the fray, which she did today in a mistake-riddled, anti-clean energy op-ed.
WASHINGTON -- A sign of the fragility of the broad, late-night agreement on health care reform reached among Senate negotiators could be seen in the responses unfolding today in Washington. President Barack Obama welcomed the development.
On Dec. 3 the U.S. Senate voted to keep significant Medicare cuts in the health-care overhaul bill despite polls showing seniors are concerned about their benefits. Senators voted 50 to 42 to reject an amendment by Sen. John McCain , R-Ariz. that would have stripped more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts from the health-care bill. The measure would have sent the health-care bill back to the ...
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a Senate ethics complaint against U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his robocalls in several states, including Arkansas. The calls in Arkansas urged people to ask U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., to support his amendment that would have removed Medicare cuts from the Senate [...]
Some in Congress worry that setting a timetable sends the wrong message.
Seven billion taxpayer dollars wasted, that is what Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn says he's outlined in another list of 100 wasteful stimulus projects.
IDG News Service - An employee of the U.S. State Department was sentenced today to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 125 electronic passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
