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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.
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to boost Medicare payments to physicians in a move that could help shore up support from doctors for a sweeping Democratic-backed health care overhaul.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The key health-care overhaul issue now facing medical-device companies is when they may have to start paying a collective $2 billion-per-year tax proposed in Congress.
WASHINGTON The same day the House of Representatives passed health care reform legislation, U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen introduced a bill to make permanent a tax credit for paper companies that burn black liquor.
South Carolina Officials weigh in on politics and football. Where were you born and raised? Lt. Governor Andre Bauer: I was born in Charleston, S.C. and was raised in Irmo, S.C. I was 26-years-old when I entered politics, and I ran for office in the House of Representatives.
A rare Saturday session for the US Senate should end with a key vote on healthcare. Senators are expected to move forward on a proposal by democrats that would extend health care to millions of Americans, but republicans claim it is too expensive.
Gov. Mark Sanford agreed Thursday to remove the last hurdle to a long-delayed House of Representatives impeachment investigation of his travel and campaign expenses.
The U.S. House of Representatives will likely pass Rep. Paul Kanjorski 's (D., Pa.) break-'em-up bill, which calls for regulators to split dangerously big and financially complex companies into safer pieces, so they don't have to be bailed out like American International Group Inc. or General Motors Corp.
A large portion of this country’s citizens are completely naïve about how the U.S. Congress operates. The influence of corporations and their lobbyists determine what programs (and what is in them) are passed.
The U.S. Congress recognized Frank Jones at the Marion County industry appreciation luncheon on Nov. 17.
WASHINGTON — U. S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, won’t run for Oregon governor, he announced Thursday.Walden, 52, is the only Republican in Oregon to hold federal office and was widely considered the GOP’s best candidate to re-take the governor’s seat in 2010.Given the weighty issues facing the U.S. Congress — including health care reform and government deficits — Walden told The Bulletin on ...
Soup kitchen workers are seeing new faces in line and charities are taking more calls for help as the recession makes for a less-than-bountiful Thanksgiving. Hunger relief advocates came to Congress on Thursday and painted a bleak picture of a country... Thanksgiving - Food bank - Recession - holiday - United States Congress
EL PASO -- The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct has notified U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, that the committee is not investigating him.
Democrats in the U.S. Congress are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as lawmakers finalize an overhaul of the healthcare system.
The "reformers" in the White House and the House of Representatives have made all too plain their vision of the federal government's power to coerce individual Americans to make the "right" health-care choices.
As the Senate prepares for a historic debate on the House of Representatives’ recently passed health care legislation, many students are left wondering about how the proposed legislation would affect them.
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