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Rep. Ben Ray Luján was critical of the budget plan put forward by Republicans and unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., Tuesday, saying on the House floor that the budget “makes the wrong choices for hard-working families.” Luján, who represents New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, also said the proposed Republican budget “ends Medicare and Medicaid as we know it by privatizing Medicare

A new government study paints a grim picture for young adults. Hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses, alone or in combination, increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008. Researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, published their findings in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs after examining hospitalization data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a project of the U.S.

Two great catches by Ben Smith -- and more by his commenters -- reveal that the little-known Committee for Truth in Politics is running ads that frame proposed

Senator Mark Udall has become something of a broken record on the subject of the national debt and deficit, and what it will take to solve the problems: bipartisan cooperation, broad spending cuts and targeted tax increases. In a speech today on the Senate floor: “…it’s unrealistic to maintain – as the Republicans do – that raising revenues isn’t a part of the debt-reduction equation

DES MOINES — Race and ethnicity aren’t factors in the 2012 presidential race — rather, it boils down to leadership, GOP candidate Herman Cain said while visiting Iowa Thursday. Cain, a prominent black businessman from Atlanta, said while he was “proud of America” for electing a black man to the presidency in 2008, “the problem is that people did not look below the surface” from President Barack Obama ‘s ethnicity to his leadership skills, which is what voters truly care about in 2012

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee -- the GOP arm charged with helping to get its Senate candidates elected -- has produced an ad that nicely

The headline was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 20 percent plurality in the presidential preference question, but I think the rest of the Conservative

Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron, is slated to meet with four Senate Democrats today to discuss whether BP played a role in the release of convicted

With the construction of a “spaceport” underway in the southern New Mexico town of Upham, NASA has made moves to take advantage of the new flight center by striking a $4.5 million contract agreement with owners Virgin Galactic.

The head of an Energy Department panel working to improve the safety of hydrofracking says the Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing study of the practice, slated to be completed in 2014, is too slow to be of much use. The seven-member Energy Department panel, led by former CIA Director John Deutch, has a 90-day deadline to identify immediate steps to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, a technology that injects chemicals and water into rock formations to free trapped natural gas. “I am concerned about the time schedule” for the EPA’s final report, Deutch said today during a meeting of his natural- gas subcommittee in Washington

For all of the frenzy over Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comment that the system worked after the failed bombing on Northwest Airlines Flight

Other White House contenders are all talk, GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlentysaid today during the Ames Straw Poll. The former Governor of Minnesota said

Predictably, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee swiftly denounced Sen. Barack Obama’s decision to be the first presidential candidate to

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) hasn’t had much luck getting former White House officials to testify before his panel this year. Former senior

Leading members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, including co-chair Keith Ellison, are urging President Barack Obama to step up job creation efforts to create three million jobs in 2012. “The size of the federal budget deficit is not keeping the American people up at night ; they’re worried about how to pay for groceries

Sangeeta Ghosh, assistant corporate counsel for Kent County, Mich., says should the 51-year-old man charged in two cases of failing to disclose his HIV-positive

At CPAC’s presidential banquet last night, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) argued that Americans would turn against the stimulus package as this thing unravels.

Since 2006, when the state started paying nonprofits to steer women toward childbirth rather than abortion, Texas’ Alternatives to Abortion Services Program

The Comptroller of the Currency keeps an eye on the mortgage market, and the results continue to be terrible. They monitor 64 percent of the mortgages in the