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Washington - The US Senate on Sunday passed a 1-trillion- dollar spending bill that will keep federal agencies and social programmes operational until the end of September 2010. The measure, which already passed in the House of Representatives and co...
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Senate on Saturday cleared an important procedural motion on $1.1 trillion catch-all legislation wrapping together six unfinished must-pass spending bills into a single package.
This past week, the House of Representatives
Drug War Sea Change in the US Congress? The United States Congress set its sights on the drug war this week. Legislators have or will consider several important bills that address the drug war at home and abroad. According to decriminalization advocates, the news is mostly good.
The North Platte Telegraph The Nebraska Campaign for Responsible Health Reform (CRHR) and the North Platte Area Chamber and Development Corporation are hosting a forum in North Platte this week to educate Nebraskans about the latest health care proposals being considered by the U.S. Congress.
Former Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives Rod Jetton, 42, of Marble Hill, Missouri was charged Monday, December 7 with one count of assault in the second degree.
Rep. Tommy Smith (R-Nicholls) is the first declared candidate to succeed Glenn Richardson as Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, a Republican from Harding, represents the 11th District in the House of Representatives.
President Obama on Saturday applauded the House of Representatives' passage of an ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations designed to correct failures that led to the economic meltdown.
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.
Christmas came early for three New Britain organizations. Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a collection of annual appropriations bills. The measures included $475,000 U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, Democrat-5th District, secured for the New Britain area.
The Michigan state House of Representatives killed a measure which would have allowed Great Lakes islanders to feed their deer herds.
In weekly address, poresident praises legislation passed by House of Representatives that would impose strictest controls on financial institutions since the Great Depression.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed the most ambitious restructuring of U.S financial regulations since the 1930s on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year's Wall Street failures that plunged the U.S. deep into recession.
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.
I have a confession to make: when I first came to the House of Representatives, I was scared to death of Jodie Mahony. He was a living legend at the Capitol and my only close encounter with him up…
