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Facing skeptical House Energy and Commerce members concerned over losing jurisdictional turf, Obama administration officials said Wednesday a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency would not seriously impact the Federal Trade Commission and would ultimately provide a greater benefit to consumers who have been targeted for predatory loans and ...

The next congressional elections aren't until 2010, but challengers already have emerged in two of the three districts in our region.

A bold experiment in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta could protect threatened fish and ease California's water crisis.

Temperatures outside the building climbed to 108 degrees as a standing-room-only crowd of 800-plus farmworkers, growers and environmentalists squeezed into an auditorium on the California State University-Fresno campus June 28 to hear how the Obama administration plans to address the state's ongoing water woes.

Farmers, workers and agriculture advocates by the hundreds rallied today in front of Fresno City Hall, pleading with the state and federal government to provide more irrigation water for the Valley.

Thumbs up to Valley lawmakers working to obtain an interstate designation for Highway 99.

Will Senate pass Obama's climate bill? June 28: Senior White House adviser David Axelrod discusses President Barack Obama's energy legislation with NBC's David Gregory on "Meet the Press." Environment slide showsA A A A Getty Images Calif.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Sunday announced several steps he hoped would ease the toll of the state's water shortage on farmers, and said he would assign a top deputy to help find solutions.

While a cap and trade climate change bill narrowly passed in the U.S. House Friday, it was adamantly opposed by 19th District Representative George Radanovich and 3rd District Representative Dan Lungren.

Turn Out the Lights - Nancy Pelosi Says the Party's Over June 26th, 2009 Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will look to give President Obama's Administration control of yet another sector of the U.S. economy by passing the Waxman-Markey global warming bill.

TuCare hosted a three hour Community Forum this afternoon dealing with the timber industry and related subjects in Tuolumne County.

Central Valley lawmakers this week briefly summoned House attention to the region's water shortages, challenging the environmental rules that have curtailed irrigation deliveries.

House members came together Thursday to talk about behavioral advertising, pledging to try to strike a balance between the need to give consumers control over their personal information while not knee-capping a business model that supports free Internet service and applications as well as delivering information tailored to a consumer's preferences ...

Thumbs up to Dave Tonini, Michael Young and Maria Magallan, named the top three school employees by Tulare County.

There's a slowdown all along the Mexican border. Border Patrol agents caught fully 27 percent fewer illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the United States between Nov.

The congressional elections of 2010 may seem distant to some but not to the latest challenger of eight term house republican George Radanovich.

June 4, 2009 - A NAFCU-opposed bill giving the Federal Trade Commission authority to expedite rulemaking and assess civil money penalties in connection with consumer credit and debt services was approved on a party-line vote of 16-9 by a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.

Fresno business leaders are leaning on California lawmakers in hopes of stopping organized labor's bid to change how unions are formed.

Congressional Democrats on Monday kicked off what promised to be a heated weeklong debate over far-reaching climate change legislation that would put new limits on greenhouse gas emissions blamed for the Earth's rising temperature.

Five of six San Joaquin Valley congressmen are skipping today's high-profile graduation ceremony at the University of California at Merced -- including one who was a driving force in the school's birth.