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A new report by the Government Accountability Office estimates that the "soaring price of oil will leave the Iraqi government with a cumulative budget surplus of as much as $79 billion by year's end ." Federal ...

Main Category: Primary Care / General Practice Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 07 Aug 2008 Legislation recently introduced in the House and Senate would create a program to ...

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 7, 2008; Page D01 Rep.

Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health The House on Wednesday by a veto-proof 326-102 vote approved legislation that would give FDA the authority to regulate ...

In case you missed it, a stunning New York Times story details how the military has outsourced a $300 million arms contract, the linchpin in its support of the Afghani Army and police, to 22-year-old Miami ...

The House last week by a veto-proof 326-102 vote approved legislation that would give FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products.

WASHINGTON Lawmakers on Wednesday pressed officials from the Pentagon and KBR Inc.

White House Budget Director Jim Nussle doesn't think Democrats in Congress should tinker with Medicare Part D the prescription drug benefit for seniors although the money needed to cover projected recipients ...

WASHINGTON - The House today is scheduled to vote on sweeping legislation that for the first time would give the federal government the power to regulate tobacco products.

Two bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives are aimed at protecting American children, Rep.

The Democratic-controlled Congress is working to overcome years of neglect by the Bush administration of agencies intended to safeguard the health of the public, especially children, a leading Democrat said ...

Tobacco regulations that just passed the House "should carry a warning label about their dangerous effects on liberty," says Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis.

U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl , Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin , and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Ted Kennedy , and Senator Bob ...

The Pentagon's No. 2 personnel and readiness official was admonished and dismissed from a House subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military Thursday after admitting that he had directed a key ...

Both environmentalists who have been fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation and supporters of the project expected it: an air permit for the plant.

After its guards were accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians without provocation last fall, Blackwater Worldwide, the security company responsible for protecting U.S. diplomats in that war-torn country, shifted ...

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being. Its ...

Accidental electrocutions have killed 11 soldiers and five Marines, injured dozens more troops and caused at least 283 fires at U.S.-operated facilities in Iraq.

An interim Pentagon investigation found no "credible evidence" that contractor KBR, Inc., was aware of life-threatening conditions at the Baghdad building where a Green Beret was electrocuted in January while ...

Lawmakers today pressed officials with Houston-based military contractor KBR Incorporated about deficient electrical work in Iraq.