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The US Senate, torn along party lines, voted to formally launch debate on historic legislation to enact President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care, handing him a win for now.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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