House tightens fed controls over pet primate trade
WASHINGTON — Eight days after a 200-pound chimpanzee critically mauled a woman in Connecticut, the House moved Tuesday to ban the transport of monke...
WASHINGTON — Eight days after a 200-pound chimpanzee critically mauled a woman in Connecticut, the House moved Tuesday to ban the transport of monke...
Ed Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Congress is considering a resolution to declare November U.S. Military History Month. The truth is, soldiers are returning to a nation that no longer embraces their service as a serious educational subject.
Lesley Jane Seymour | Posted 05.25.2011
The New York Times proclaimed that uninsured Americans are the biggest beneficiaries of health care reform, but the measure will also be a boon to a less obvious group: women over 40.
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Even with victory in hand, President Barack Obama can't put health care to rest. He still has to sell skeptical Americans on the be...
Posted 05.25.2011
Before the Senate passed it's version of the financial reform bill, Dylan Ratigan questioned whether the legislation addressed the causes of the finan...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE 11:00 AM ET, MARCH 21 -- Today is the day. As Congress gets set for Sunday's historic vote on health care reform, click here to get all the br...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Click here for more recent updates. Ahead of the critical final vote on health care reform, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives know...
Posted 05.25.2011
The deadline for accomplishing health care reform, which for months has been a moving target, has moved yet again. This time to March 18, before Presi...
The New Republic | Posted 05.25.2011
Inside Health Policy's Julian Pecquet and Amy Lotven report on a Democratic memo sketching out a timeline for passage of health care reform. The gist ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited corporate money to flow into ...
New York Times | KATE ZERNIKE | Posted 05.25.2011
States that have already broadly expanded health care coverage are pushing back against the Senate overhaul bill, arguing that it unfairly penalizes t...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Sixty years is how long Democrats say they've been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans. They...
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The House voted Tuesday to impose new economic sanctions on Iran as lawmakers cast doubt on Iran's willingness to respond to diplom...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
With several prominent House Democrats acknowledging that they will likely have to give up a public option for insurance coverage in health care refor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
Two congressional committees in charge of drafting legislation to regulate derivatives have quietly killed a provision that would allow the Federal Re...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The House passed legislation Friday to head off a government shutdown next week by temporarily extending spending on most federal p...
Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011
If built, the plants in Holcomb, Kansas will belch out about 11 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, to become the largest new source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 05.25.2011