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A long-running effort to allow the import of lower-cost prescription drugs faces a new twist — President Barack Obama's administration is raising safety concerns that could effectively scuttle it, even though Obama backed the plan as a senator.
The nearly $2 billion in stimulus money being spent on environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s revised strategy for Afghanistan provides “a realistic and effective approach” that outlines an “achievable” objective, the U.S. commander in the war-torn country said today.
Sarah Palin's book exposes tensions between the former Republican vice presidential candidate and aides to John McCain.
Obama also called for “mobilizing” money from the financial-system bailout fund to open up more credit to small businesses.
n McChrystal tells Congress that change in strategy will work
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND —Arizona Sen. John McCain singled out the Bainbridge police patrol boat in a list of the nation’s most wasteful federal stimulus projects.In a report released Tuesday, McCain and Sen. Tom Coburn , R-Oklahoma, took aim at 100 projects they say were unnecessary and are unlikely to spur economic growth.The police boat, which recently received a $190,000 federal stimulus grant to ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative John Boozman will host a town hall with Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, at Har-Ber High School, 300 Jones Road in Springdale.
BILLINGS — It was a lovefest. Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin descended on Billings and left no book unsigned Tuesday during a 2½ hour blitz of Borders bookstore.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government will pay as much as $3.4 billion and institute reforms to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit brought by Indians who claim federal mismanagement of billions of dollars in mineral and grazing royalties from their lands dating to the 19th century.
Republicans, Democrats also probe general and ambassador on rumors of tension.
"I don't know about everybody else, but I am getting so tired of driving down the street and have to cross the center line a little bit to avoid hitting somebody in a motorized wheelchair." - Hagerstown
A town hall meeting featuring former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and two other GOP lawmakers has been canceled.from Channel 7
It was a lovefest.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, joins U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry in testimony to Congress a week after President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy. McChrystal said there are no "silver bullets" for success in Afghanistan.
Seeking to resolve two contentious issues blocking health-care reform in the Senate, lawmakers began consideration Monday of an amendment to restrict abortion coverage, while Democrats closed in on alternatives to the public-insurance option.
