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In his speech to the nation Tuesday night, President Barack Obama announced his plan to send 30,000 more troops to beef up American ground forces fighting in Afghanistan.

Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 1:50 a.m. U.S. Rep.

The U.S. House passed legislation Wednesday that would ban the importation of foreign radioactive waste into the United States.

Rep. Corrine Brown D-Fla., 3rd "The expedited deployment of additional troops will provide greatly needed support as well as buttress our nation's effort to reverse recent Taliban momentum.

ISRI reports that Florida scrap metal company is the first facility to be RIOS certified.

A Harvard University study published in the American Journal of Public Health claimed that nearly 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of health care coverage.

Protecting individual privacy and robust a oee-commercea were the subject of a joint hearing of two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees last week, the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee and the Communications Subcommittee.

Time for another round of hugs, slugs - and one ugh - for the politicians and newsmakers who help make Florida the unique, dynamic and occasionally stomach-turning place it is.

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.

Look at what else Congress is up to . . . Scott Maxwell TAKING NAMES November 10, 2009 You know, it's not all health care in Washington nowadays.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:16 p.m. Economic development officials say they are working on "five or six" projects to bring jobs to the area and hope to present them to county commissioners within two months.

Congressman Cliff Stearns issued the following statement: "We have an opportunity to help all Americans by reducing the cost of health insurance coverage, and I voted for a plan to do just that," stated Rep.

After three public hearings in one week on the increasingly hot-button issue of distracted driving, Congress appears no closer to answering the question of whether a punitive strategy for encouraging state-level action -- such as threatening to withhold highway funds -- can win sufficient support from conservatives.

Only in America would you need to pass a law to enforce a law. But that is the situation gun opponents have created by filing dozens of pesky lawsuits against law-abiding gun manufacturers and dealers.

The U.S. House is expected to vote on a historic health care reform bill on Saturday.

From left: Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Ander Crenshaw, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ginny Brown-Waite and Cliff Stearns [Illustrations: Rob Zammarchi] In 2007, after a scandal involving Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff revealed how lobbyists were using lavish trips to curry favor and buy face time with lawmakers, Congress enacted stricter rules governing ...

A compromise in the long-running dispute over low-power FM stations has put more momentum behind the Local Community Radio Act of 2009, a bill that would largely remove channel-spacing rules that have blocked new LPFMs in urban areas.

Contributors The Blog for Thursday, October 29, 2009 The best they can do? "National Republicans met with two potential challengers to U.S. Rep.

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:12 p.m. Forget health care.

Republican Representative Ginny Brown-Waite wants President Obama to seek the consent of Congress before formally accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.