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It remains unclear whether Florida will be eligible to apply for a federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Ocala, is again defending his decision not to include Florida environmental groups in a recent hearing on a set of EPA water pollution

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Next week, the Senate returns from recess to a months-long battle over the extension of expiring programs providing benefits to millions of jobless

Any day now, Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to sign a bill that strips state and federal family planning dollars from Planned Parenthood of

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logo (Pic via newportpharmacy.com) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden said Wednesday that reducing teen pregnancy should be a major public health priority in the U.S., according to the National Journal . Friedan said teen pregnancy affects health care costs and limits opportunities for young girls.

The Iowa Family Policy Center , a division of The Family Leader , did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding it received for a controversial marriage-counseling program, according to documents obtained by The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). At the center of the controversy is the recent revelation that the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) might have used taxpayer dollars to wage a campaign against same-sex marriage in the state. Shorty after The Iowa Independent began reporting on IFPC’s Marriage Matters program, IFPC announced they had agreed in September 2009 to stop accepting money from the U.S.

Republicans are not happy with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan for oil spill legislation -- they say the leader is giving the issue short

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office told Bloomberg on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be giving interviews this week as she was committed to working in her district. Bachmann’s office made the statement, however, while the Sixth District Republican was on a visit to Hawaii to raise money for Republicans and ahead of a weekend trip to Montana to campaign for her friend Rep

After a fiasco during what should have been a friendly radio interview , Florida Senate President and U.S. Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos issued a statement saying he supports the thrust of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan, but that “it must be amended to provided greater protections for Seniors.” # His spokes-folks went on to clarify further, telling The Miami Herald that he would vote against the plan in its current form

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today announced appointments to the 2011 Denver Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Commission. The Commission is comprised of 22 sitting commissioners tasked with providing the mayor with insight and communication with the GLBT community in Denver. “One of my core values is inclusiveness,” Mayor Hancock said in a press release.

Byrd’s passing means a steeper climb for financial regulatory reform. McCain disagrees with Jan Brewer’s claim that most people crossing from Mexico to the

So says Shaun Donovan, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In an interview with The Washington Post, Donovan says the focus of the real

If Bruce Riedel, chairman of the Obama administration’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review, has a bottom line as to the Pakistani Inter-Services

The combative head of an anti-environmentalist Washington, D.C. nonprofit with Colorado roots vowed on Thursday to appeal last week’s Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s nearly 100-year-old ban on corporate campaign spending.

Byron York had been working the sleepy Census controversy beat yesterday, so it makes sense for his story today to focus on how Republicans were fretting

TWI’s David Weigel sat down with Politico’s Ben Smith yesterday for a wide-ranging Bloggingheads.tv diavlog that covered President Obama and Afghanistan, the

As Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) girds for the March 4 Ohio and Texas primaries -- races that could mark her last stand in the battle for the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick (Pic by MilitaryHealth, via Flickr) Kaiser Health News reports that states all over the country, including Florida, are moving toward Medicaid managed care and are looking “to private health plans for help closing budget gaps.” According to Kaiser : State officials expect the trend to continue in the state-federal program for the poor, according to a survey released today by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Officials in 27 states (of 45 responding) reported that they expect to lean more heavily on managed care in the near future. Ten states, including California, Florida and Texas reported that they have specific plans to expand managed care to new geographic areas or groups of patients, such as the elderly