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Pic via arcc-cdac.ca Florida’s Department of Health suggested cutting state funding to crisis pregnancy centers, among other services, to state legislators during a committee meeting last week. The department presented a report on what it sees as possible areas of budget reduction to legislators in the Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, as they prepare to make more cuts to the budget during their upcoming session. Crisis pregnancy centers (known as CPCs) are often religious centers created to persuade women to not have abortions.

President Barack Obama’s proposed cuts to federal heating assistance could impact more than 615,000 low income households in Michigan, advocates warn. Obama

The eight undocumented youth who have been protesting in Atlanta were arrested late this afternoon. Samantha Nawrocki, a spokesperson for One Michigan, said the youth were arrested shortly before 4 p.m. They were protesting a Georgia law which bans undocumented youth from attending state universities.

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) The House of Representatives’ Office of Congressional Ethics has launched a “preliminary” investigation into Rep. Vern Buchanan, R- Sarasota

Just when you thought the conversation over government spending had moved firmly from the executive branch to the legislative, Christopher Hellman, a military

GUANTANAMO BAY -- A question that intuitively speaks to the voluntariness of Omar Khadr’s statements to interrogators in Bagram (and later Guantanamo) in 2002

One of the points that Defense Secretary Bob Gates emphasized -- arguably, in fact, the key point -- in his Senate testimony last month is the abundant need to

Spending bailout money to lobby for more bailout money might soon become slightly more difficult. Incoming Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is expected to

One of the central flaws of safety net programs is that they become most necessary during recessions when states are least able to afford the influx of

Yesterday, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) introduced a bill to provide extra weeks of federally paid-for unemployment insurance benefits for the 99ers -- the

VP candidate rose to power by looking out for No. 1. Now that she’s on the national stage, she could be back to politics as usual.

Although Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is getting grief for all that he doesn’t plan on doing with his financial regulation reform bill, one thing that is in the

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used strong language Wednesday to describe Mexico’s struggle against its drug cartels, comparing it to an insurgency, even

DENVER--Tammy Duckworth -- Iraq war veteran, Illinois Veterans Affairs director, amputee and netroots favorite -- is smacking John McCain silly. She’s talking

Amid the Democrats’ boostering and the Republicans’ assaults on the final stimulus package, almost no one is focusing on a key part of the bill that will be

By mailing them doctored Hawaiian vacation brochures with Denver pasted over Honolulu, and sending a delegation of Hooters waitresses to Democratic National Committee H.Q. in Washington as Denver goodwill ambassadors, master Republican manipulator Karl Rove allegedly tricked Dem muckety-mucks into choosing the Mile High City as the site of their 2008 convention.

I’m a little confused as to how you reason that a $663.7 billion defense budget that won’t be fully worked out until April sacrifices American primacy. I

And we’re underway. Hillary Clinton is gladhandling in the Hart Senate Office Buiding. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) -- who wanted to be where Clinton is this

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood looked a little out of his element last week, when he proposed a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax on motorists as an

The University of Michigan Innocence Clinic, which has a strong track record of finding evidence that exonerates people who were convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, says they have found another innocent man in a state prison for the past 25 years. That man is Karl Vinson, convicted of raping a 9-year old girl in 1986.

Members of industry have long contended that environmental protections are incompatible with economic growth. That was one reason the Lieberman-Warner Climate

We have seen the abuses by contractors, Clinton says, lamenting the overall trend of moving to a contracted State Department security workforce. It’s been