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Congressman Bob Latta sent a letter to Office of Budget and Management Director Peter Orszag asking for the full funding of the Caroline Pryce Walker Conquer Childhood Cancer Act in his Fiscal Year 2011 budget request on.

Corporate Voices for Working Families and Working Mother Media will present U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives with the Best of Congress award, recognizing their leadership in improving the quality of life for working families by partnering with business to create long-term solutions to work-life issues.

Since Congress first convened in 1789, women have constituted only 2 percent of the roughly 12,000 who have served in the House and Senate.

CLYDE -- Warren and Wendy Brown are in Washington, D.C., this week to make sure money is being appropriated for childhood cancer research.

When Columbus Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy voted with 218 other Democrats for a $1.2 trillion overhaul of America's health care system, the Republican National Congressional Committee was quick to react.

The growing divide in the Republican Party between its staunchly conservative members and its smaller pool of moderate members has "clear gender undertones," Politico reports.

" Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York's 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views - and not because she is a woman.

On the front page of Politico this morning, a message of warning to congressional Republicans: The gist of the article was as follows -- as the Republican party has pushed out moderates, it has tended to appear more hostile to women candidates and congresswomen.

Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York's 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views - and not because she is a woman.

In the national political fishbowl that is the 15th Congressional District race, there are all kinds of undercurrents and riptides to contemplate in the wake of last week's elections in New York, New Jersey and Virginia.

Ohioans, you are truly the heart of it all. In Washington, D.C., that is, where Buckeye State voters are political celebrities, eyed more greedily than Britney Spears is stalked by the paparazzi.

Ohio's U.S. senators are waging a bipartisan bid to win $10 million for a pediatric-cancer research initiative crafted by former Rep.

University Hospitals of Cleveland reportedly would get higher a Medicare reimbursement rate for cancer care under an amendment that some senators want to add to the health care bill being considered in the Senate Finance Committee Sen.

WASHINGTON -- During the recent markup of the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill, Congressman Bob Latta was successful in re-directing $10 million of funding towards pediatric cancer research and eradication efforts through a manager's amendment.

Dwight Fettig joins the firm of his friends Lendell Porterfield and Andrew Lowenthal.

With Ohio's 20 electoral votes - more than Nevada, Utah and Colorado combined - presidential candidates work hard to win over the state's modest, workman-like and pragmatic voters.

As a final look for the moment at re-election prospects of the House Democratic rookies, I'm going to focus on four white, Rust Belt freshmen, two each from Michigan and Ohio: Steve Driehaus, OH1; Mary Jo Kilroy, OH15; Mark Schauer, MI7; and Gary Peters, MI9.