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The FBI is no longer investigating a threat against Rep. Brian Baird. A spokeswoman for the agency, Lindsay Godwin, told The Vancouver Columbian that agents did not feel a phone message left at Baird's D.C. office was serious.

President Obama as 'The Joker.' [Source: Paul M. Jones] Representative David Scott , whose office was recently vandalized with a spray-painted swastika , receives an anonymous fax depicting President Obama with a swastika drawn on his forehead.

Democrats who thought a vote against the sweeping health care package would inoculate them from political attack are facing serious blowback from angry constituents and interest groups on the left - fierce opposition that could prove as consequential as anything Republicans could have thrown at them.

An alleged death threat reported by U.S. Rep. Brian Baird at the height of last summer's furor over health care reform has been turned over to the FBI.

Brian Baird's weekend vote against health care reform, and they dropped off letters of protest at his Olympia office.

Late Saturday night the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed sweeping health care legislation that would expand coverage and place restrictions on insurance companies.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith put out a statement explaining his vote late Saturday in favor of H.R. 3962, the House Democrats' latest health-reform measure.

The netroots have given Larry Kissell $485,795 , over the past couple of cycles.

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird said Friday that he would vote against the Affordable Health Care for America Act because Congress still lacks reliable estimates of how the legislation will affect premiums paid by people who already have insurance, including those on Medicare.

With a historic vote looming this weekend, one Washington state representative, Brian Baird, said Friday he couldn't support the Democratic health care reform bill, while another, Adam Smith, said he had yet to make up his mind.

Brian Baird, the Democratic congressman from Vancouver, Washington, says he's going to vote against his party's landmark health insurance reform bill this weekend .

Editor's Note : This post has been updated to include Congressman Adam Smith of Washington's 9th Congressional District in the call to action.

29, deals with the fighting last winter that left more than 1,000 people dead, all but a handful Palestinians.

The House Science subcommittee on energy and environment hosted a hearing last week on fusion research.

On Tuesday, November 3, a bipartisan resolution cosponsored by Reps. Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the House will be likely voted on that condemns the Goldstone report released in September by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict .

In June, Representative Brian Baird proposed H.R. 554, which would amend the rules of the House of Representatives to require that non-emergency legislation and associated reports be available on the Internet for 72 hours before consideration by the House.

Momentum is picking up in Congress to repeal an exemption from federal antitrust laws for the insurance industry that has its origins in the Civil War era.

"We may be going toward the spices in India, but we may run into America," said Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Director Pier Oddone about future research results from the Large Hadron Collider .

This year's Vancouver mayoral election long ago became the costliest in the city's history.

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