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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.
Indeed, more people will be covered with the health care legislation passed recently by the Senate and House of Representatives, but this legislation will not address adequately the very significant problem of the current cost and anticipated escalation of it.
U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean , D-Barrington, is calling for bipartisan support for a package of Wall Street reforms expected to pass out of committee this week and head to the House of Representatives for a vote this month.She said the measures are necessary to avoid a repeat of last year's financial crisis."As I said when we began work on these reforms almost a year ago, regulatory reform may not be ...
The once-a-decade process for redrawing the map of the House of Representatives has two distinct parts with similar-sounding, multisyllabic names. Redistricting, the drawing of the lines within each state, is the second part. Reapportionment, deciding how many House seats each state will have, comes first.
WILTON — Irv Faunce of Wilton has announced his candidacy for the District 90 seat in the Maine House of Representatives. The seat is held by Thomas Saviello, U-Wilton.
A new type of natural-gas electric power plant could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at costs comparable to or less than conventional natural-gas plants, and even to coal-burning plants. But that can only come about if and when a price is set on the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases -- a step the US Congress and other governments are ...
As unemployment spikes, the cost of compassion is going up too. By as much as $100 billion. That's the potential price of a push by Democrats in Congress to continue providing extra help to the jobless beyond the core 26-week unemployment insurance package... Unemployment - Unemployment benefits - United States Congress - Democratic Party - Insurance
LAUGHLIN - One of three major party candidates for the two-year seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C, that includes Laughlin will speak before a public meeting of the Laughlin Economic Development Corporation's Leadership Forum.
After much speculation, the daughter of a former president and a secretary of state will marry the son of two former members of the House of Representatives.
Attorney General Martha Coakley coasted through the final televised debate of the short Democratic primary campaign for US Senate last night, as two opponents lagging in the polls, US Representative Michael E. Capuano and businessman Stephen G. Pagliuca, sniped at each other for much of the hour.
The U.S. Senate today approved the first federal Vietnamese-American judge. And she’s from Los Angeles. Long before she was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, Jacqueline Nguyen came to the U.S. with her family when South Vietnam fell in 1975. She was 10 years old.
In 2005, 75,144 women were diagnosed with some type of gynecologic cancer. In 2006, The House of Representatives recognized September as Gynecologic Awareness Month to increasing public awareness about ways to prevent, detect and treat gynecologic cancers.
A battle has shaped up for House of Representatives District 69, the seat representing Wichita Falls in the Texas Legislature.
Newspaper executives and editors gathered in India from around the world Tuesday heard calls to seek more payment for their content on the Internet as they decried their industry's sharply falling advertising revenues. "This is a critical moment in our... India - Advertising - United States Congress - Asia - Newspaper
Rep. Eric I. Cantor, the Richmond-area congressman and No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives will have his say on economic recovery in a speech tomorrow to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank. But before Cantor lays out his views, Democrats are piling on the 7th District representative. They want to know whether Cantor would favor junking the Obama administration ...
Only Michigan legislators could be stupid enough to actually suggest that the state‘s budget crisis is anyone‘s fault but their own. Astoundingly, an op-ed in last Tuesday's Detroit Free Press written by Tim Bledsoe (D-Grosse Pointe) and Larry Deshazor (R-Portage) reveals a serious streak of denial in the state House of Representatives.
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