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“Incentives quickly become penalties for those who can’t meet the requirements,” said Sue Nelson, vice president for federal advocacy at the American Heart Association.

Now that we’re past Labor Day, a number of candidates have started spending big money on ad buys selling their biographies and touting their accomplishments. In

Today the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that you can’t sue a manufacturer for a defective medical device if the Food and Drug Administration has already approved

Today the Republican presidential ticket went its separate ways as Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin split up for the first time since Palin became the

The health reform debate has consumed Congress more than any issue in recent memory. And no one held more influence in that debate than these ten individuals.

The last time I heard Gen. David Petraeus, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East and South Asia, talk about Afghanistan, he was endorsing the Karzai

Confirming that there are already 2,100 open cases of mortgage fraud that the FBI is investigating, Attorney General Eric Holder said today that he plans to

Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the most admired Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30

Stories like these, whenever they surface, are bad news for mainstream conservatives trying to use this energy in a less insane manner. A group that calls

While a cooperative agreement between the U.S. departments of agriculture and labor will provide some opportunities for rural workers, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said by phone Thursday that the effort won’t necessarily be a replacement for Iowa Workforce Development offices scheduled for closure

After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way. Meaning: extend the traveling distance into which Mexican nationals can penetrate New Mexico, so that they can bring their cash to cities like Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Deming. In response, Senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman have proposed legislation — the Southern New Mexico Economic Development Act — asking for an extension of the 25-mile zone in which Mexican citizens can travel into New Mexico to shop, to conduct business, to visit family and friends to 75 miles.

<p>On three frigid days in early 1971, more than 100 Vietnam veterans gathered at a Detroit hotel to indict the most contentious American war of the 20th

Participants of the Occupy Wall Street-inspired Occupy Lansing will protest the downtown Lansing branch of Chase Bank Tuesday afternoon. In a press release sent out this morning, the protests were explained: “Chase Bank is one of the abusive lending institutions responsible for the sputtering economy,” said Ian Eberhart, one of the Oct

U.S. Rep. Steve King sat down with journalist Lorena Lopez of Iowa’s LA PRENSA Hispanic newspaper and provided an in-depth view on his immigration stance.

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) expects a Senate vote next week on her proposed resolution to knock down the Federal Communications Commission’s rules

Consider this pseudo-controversy ended. Now that Defense Secretary Bob Gates has joined in with national security adviser Jim Jones to remind Gen. Stanley

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the debt limit deal reached by President Obama and the Republican leaders of both houses of Congress on Monday night by a surprisingly easy 269-161 vote . Passage in the Senate is virtually assured

In one of the most rococo arrangements between patron and client-state imaginable, Afghan President Hamid Karzai might hire Zalmay Khalilzad -- who was an

The public comment period on the Bush administration’s proposed rules to overhaul the Endangered Species Act is still open -- but only until Sept. 15. With

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit: Today in Washington, some are promising that