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Federal legislation that could lead to a college football playoff tournament will move a step closer to reality on Wednesday in a hearing before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Daniel Gilyeat drove to Topeka to have his name placed on the ballot for U.S. Congress.
The US House of Representatives Tuesday adopted a bill asking the US president to report to Congress on incitement to anti-American violence on television networks in the Middle East.
Job-creating legislation being crafted in the U.S. Congress could cost between $75 billion and $150 billion depending on what the components are, House of Representatives Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Tuesday.
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected an anti-abortion amendment to a health care reform bill, splitting the Democrats and complicating the chances of getting a 60-vote majority to pass the measure.
The United States and its international partners must "use all appropriate measures" to keep Yemen from becoming a "failed state," the US Senate said in a recently approved resolution.
THOMASVILLE — A Thomas County man who decided three years ago to seek the Second District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives announced his candidacy Thursday.
Out-of-control borrowing is about to catch up with the federal government. According to a report last week in The New York Times, interest payments on the federal debt could exceed $700 billion annually in as little as 10 years - that's much more than the combined federal budgets this year for education, energy, homeland security and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the paper reported.
Another Texoma resident is throwing his hat into the ring for a seat in the Texas State House of Representatives. Michael L. Smith announced his candadacy today for the District 69 position.
Democrats Coakley, Capuano, Khazei, Pagliuca By Globe Staff The four Democrats and the two GOP contenders for US Senate are fanning out across the state today in a final push before the primary on Tuesday. The candidates' schedules can...
The Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday approved an amendment introduced by State Rep. Deborah Newcomb, D-Conneaut, to extend the moratorium regarding household sewage treatment systems, from the Dec. 31 deadline to July 1, 2010.
The House of Representatives passed a bill creating an independent commission to review 28 years and billions of dollars spent on drug-fighting programs in Latin America.
Job-creating legislation taking shape in the U.S. Congress could carry a price tag of $75 billion to $200 billion with much of that funded by leftover bank-bailout money, House Democrats said on Tuesday.
The US House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee is prepared to subpoena a couple who showed up uninvited to a White House state dinner reception, a lawmaker said.
By Matt Viser and Martin Finucane, Globe Staff Martha Coakley, a no-nonsense lawyer who has worked more than two decades in law enforcement and rose to become Massachusetts attorney general, won the Democratic primary election tonight in the race to...
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D., Nev.) announced late Tuesday that Senate Democrats had reached "broad agreement" on a new compromise for health-care overhaul language that is intended to unite liberals and centrists in his party.
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