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By Lori Montgomery House Democrats agreed yesterday to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a sweeping expansion of the nation's health-care system, proposing a surtax on the highest earners that could send the top federal tax rate toward 45 percent.

Legislation to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would impose higher taxes on Americans earning more than $350,000 to help pay for an overhaul of the nationa s health-care system, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.

Good Morning, Fellow Seekers. It looks like a state budget plan has emerged, and it isn't pretty.

WHILE "going green" has long been associated with protecting the environment, we believe it should also be associated with saving and earning money.

Description: Rep. Allyson Schwartz on why health-care spending will not reach $3.5 trillion.

There's a change coming in the way we vote. Erie County Elections Commissioners Ralph Mohr and Dennis Ward join host Dave Debo Sunday at 10am for WBEN's weekly politics program.

Here is how Philadelphia-area members of Congress were recorded on major roll-call votes last week: House Homeland-security budget: By a 389-37 vote, the House approved a $44 billion Department of Homeland Security budget for fiscal 2010, up 6.5 percent from 2009.

Seafarers were among those who participated June 25 in a massive rally for health care reform in Washington, D.C. Photos from the rally appear below.

Openly gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank introduced a bill this week that would prohibit discrimination against LGBT employees across the country.

When it comes to health care, all three local U.S. representatives agree reform is needed.

MOST OF THE big names in local politics - Michael Nutter, Allyson Schwartz, Ed Rendell - were working the phones in last month's primary election.

Nurse practitioners would get a significant boost from legislation now pending in Congress.

Since most Americans drink soda at some point in their lives, how does this square with Obama's promise not to raise taxes on 95 percent of us? From Red State : Rep.

U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent has asked Congress for $6 million to help renovate part of Route 22 as part of a massive highway bill up for renewal this year.

Five area legislators have introduced legislation that would make the Philadelphia School District's "universal feeding" program a national model.

At a June 12 forum cosponsored by Health Affairs and the Center to Champion Nursing in America , Health Affairs will release a series of papers on the future of the nursing workforce.A CCNA is a joint initiative of AARP, the AARP Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.A The studies examine the current nursing workforce and implications ...

House Democrats will meet June 9 to hear proposals from a leading committee chairman on ways to overhaul the U.S. health-care system.

On May 12, Representative Allyson Schwartz from Pa. introduced, with 106 cosponsors, the Preserving Patient Access to Primary Care Act of 2009.

According to the NAB , a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives now opposes the controversial performance royalty rate.

WHEN LYNNE Abraham became district attorney in 1991, her ascent to one of the city's highest offices was hailed as a breakthrough for women in local politics - often viewed as an exclusive old-boys network.