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Michael R. Militello has known the horrors of war, the pain of a lengthy recovery from bullet wounds and the lack of respect for American soldiers returning from the Vietnam War some 40 years ago.

A letter signed by Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadephia, chairman of the bishops' committee on pro-life activities, and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., had "strongly urged" the congressmen to vote for the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which they said was "an essential improvement in health-care reform legislation" that would "keep in ...

Congressman Brian Higgins says he voted "enthusiastically" in favor of the health insurance reform bill that cleared the House of Representatives on Saturday.

The mammoth economic stimulus bill that passed early this year created or saved just 231 jobs in the Buffalo metro area as of the end of September, a Buffalo News analysis of federal reports shows.

Congressman Brian Higgins joined his colleagues in the House of Representatives in approving S.1211, a bill naming the U.S. Post Office at 60 School Street in Orchard Park, New York for Jack Kemp.

Editor's Note: The following is a letter to Congressman Brian Higgins, D-South Buffalo, from Ripley resident Roger Testrake.

Drain the moat, tear down the duck house, fire the housekeeper. British lawmakers face new allowances rules following a scandal over their outrageous expense claims.

A big reason congressional Democrats are so blithely eager to push the 2009 version of President Bill Clinton's carbon tax is that they never have to pay for gasoline.

This city's most popular neighborhoods are night owls, streets that come alive when the restaurants and pubs set the mood and light their candles.

I don't understand why so many politicians in WNY run opposed. I have a large white dog.

For all of its 14 years, Western New York AmeriCorps has operated out of borrowed space in West Seneca's Charles Burchfield Nature & Art Center, far from the city residents who receive most of its services.

Outspoken developer Carl Paladino isn't one to mince words. And on Tuesday, during a public forum sponsored by a local group of concerned citizens, the owner of the former United Office Building in downtown Niagara Falls didn't disappoint.

Congressman Brian Higgins praised passage of the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, legislation which authorizes over $2 billion for new solar technology research and development through unique public-private partnerships.

Buffalo, a city with a vacant-housing crisis rivaling New Orleans and Detroit, is catching the eye of state and federal officials interested in making it a model of how to right-size and rebound.

Congressman Brian Higgins announced that his office is accepting applications for those interested in being nominated to one of the service academies for the 2010 academic year.

New York lawmakers brought the nation's top housing official through some of Buffalo's most forlorn neighborhoods Friday, seeking support for a $300 million program to help cities with vast stocks of vacant housing that predate the nation's foreclosure crisis.

Wayne Rademaker underwent prostate cancer surgery in 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs denied him coverage, even though he'd been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam in 1969.

WASHINGTON &#8212 Former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly fought for more than a decade to boost research into rare childhood diseases such as the one that claimed his young son's life &#8212 and Monday, Kelly won his fight, as the National Institutes of Health announced the establishment of a research program named in memory of Hunter Kelly.

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Congressman Brian Higgins introduced the Green Energy Investment Zone Act a bill that would enhance renewable energy tax credits for economically distressed cities.