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Leelanau Enterprise - Sat Nov 21, 1:09 am ET
U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-Midland), who has played a significant role in the health care debate as minority leader of the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, was interviewed Thursday morning in the Leelanau Enterprise office. Enter read more
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The Eagle-Tribune - Sat Nov 21, 12:42 am ET
State House News Service BOSTON - The 160 memvers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and their aides were instructed yesterday to take five unpaid furlough days between now and the end of the fiscal year next June, House officials announced.
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The New Ulm Journal - Sat Nov 21, 12:12 am ET
ST. PETER - It has been a while since Allen Quist has been active in politics. Quist served three terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives, from 1982 to 1988, and challenged Gov. Arne Carlson for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1994. Quist lost to Carlson in the primary, and tried one more run at governor in 1998, withdrawing before the state convention in favor of St.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 6:02 pm ET
Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to keep Wall Street jobs and related business from moving overseas, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 5:45 pm ET
A Conservative Party candidate is writing to supporters saying he lost a New York race for a U.S. House of Representatives seat because of scheming and needs money in case he lodges a legal challenge.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 5:28 pm ET
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to boost Medicare payments to physicians in a move that could help shore up support from doctors for a sweeping Democratic-backed healthcare overhaul.
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Boston Globe - Fri Nov 20, 1:18 am ET
Republican advisers in New York say former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who many have been pushing to run for governor in 2010, is instead leaning more toward a run for U.S. Senate
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York Daily Record - Fri Nov 20, 5:22 pm ET
The shuffling has already started, according to state Rep. Ron Miller, R-Jacobus. And by the time it's concluded, he expects to be minority chairman of a committee in the state House of Representatives.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch - Fri Nov 20, 12:03 pm ET
Sen. Mark Warner said he wants to see more cost containment in the Senate’s health care bill before he can support it. The Senate version is better than the bill narrowly passed out of the House of Representatives on that grounds, he said. “I think it’s gotten better but it’s still got a ways to go before I get to yes,“ he told a group of small business owners gathered this morning at Can Can in ...
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Army Times - Fri Nov 20, 4:11 pm ET
Legislation granting Air Force and Navy veterans a better shot at receive disability benefits for Agent Orange-related illness now has 204 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, 14 short of the number needed to guarantee passage.
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Nasdaq - Fri Nov 20, 10:47 am ET
Cigna Corp. (CI) is prepared to adapt to any of the health-care overhaul proposals that the U.S. Congress is now considering, although the insurer believes those receiving the most attention would have negative, unintended consequences, Chairman and Chief Executive H. Edward Hanway said Friday.
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The Phoenix - Fri Nov 20, 6:52 pm ET
I want to publicly thank two local members of the U.S. House of Representatives for their dedicated and enthusiastic support of the Health Reform legislation recently passed in Washington. Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Joe Sestak are to be commended for demonstrating their concern for individuals, families, small business owners, and local governments (and, by logical extension, taxpayers ...
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Boston Globe - Sat Nov 21, 9:29 pm ET
Attorney General Martha Coakley has a solid lead in the four-way Democratic race for the open US Senate seat, but with just 16 days until the primary election, nearly three-quarters of likely voters have yet to decide who they will support, according to a Globe poll.
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Boston Globe - Sat Nov 21, 9:28 pm ET
Diane Patrick, the governor’s wife, issued an impassioned plea yesterday to elect US Representative Michael E. Capuano to the US Senate, but the congressman hedged when asked whether her support might help him against Attorney General Martha Coakley, the perceived front-runner and sole woman candidate.
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FOX 25 Boston - Fri Nov 20, 1:47 pm ET
Speaker Robert A. DeLeo today joined with House Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones, Jr. in announcing that employees of the Massachusetts House of Representatives will participate in a five-day furlough program expected to yield approximately $620,000 in savings.