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Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts That Would Prevent Federal Funding Of Abortion In Democratsa Health Care Experiment.

Democrats gave the gavel to the longest-serving House member ever as the chamber began debating legislation overhauling the country's health care system.

Perhaps ita s fitting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi co-hosted a luncheon at the Capitol this week to honor Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is returning to Capitol Hill next week, this time to testify about the case of two professional football players whose suspensions for violating the league's anti-doping policy were blocked by the courts.

Rep. Edward J. Markey, co-author of the climate change bill that passed the House this summer, predicted Wednesday that the legislation would spur a technological revolution similar to the one that brought affordable satellite dishes and digital cell phones to the marketplace a decade ago.

Rep. Kathleen Dahlkemper, a politically vulnerable freshman from Erie, Pa., said abortion is the 'one major issue' standing in the way of her vote for the health care reform bill.

The Senate health care committee chairman said Tuesday the panel is investigating how health insurers price the coverage they sell to small businesses, which have struggled for years with soaring premiums.

A key lawmaker says recent court decisions blocking suspensions of two NFL players threaten to undermine progress made in reducing performance-enhancing drug use among athletes at all levels.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule to beef up penalties for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act , as several Congressmen criticize the agency for leaving dangerous loopholes in the law.

In the uphill battle to reform Health Care, the latest firestorm comes after Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, announced the newest version of this bill which clearly extends federal funds for abortions.

Consumer Watchdog sent the following letter to Congressional leaders today in response to a letter sent by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in which he incorrectly cited California's draconian limits on the legal rights of injured patients as a successful cost containment tool.

The fate of President Barack Obama's climate change plans may rest in the hands of Sen.

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission took a historic step towards developing new rules to safeguard the free and open nature of the Internet, fulfilling a key campaign promise of President Obama's and kicking off a process that has been years in the making.

For His Role in Eliminating "Kucinich Amendment" that Would Remove Impediments for California and Other States to Implement Single-Payer Healthcare Reform What Registered Nurses from the California Nurses Association, activist doctors from the California Physicians Alliance, school employees from the California School Employees Association, and ...

The House's health care reform bill runs 1,990 pages and. It's filled with gullies and eddies of arcane, cryptic language that are hard to understand.

Some House Democrats opposed to abortion are threatening to thwart health care reform legislation if it does not clearly steer away from funding abortions.

WASHINGTON - Proponents of revamping the nation's health-care system will hold phone-bank events in 50 states today.

This week, both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved funding of the S.1793 Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS resources Emergency Act through the year 2013.

Consumer Watchdog today called on the Health and Human Services Department to repeal a rule that allows health care providers and insurers to decide whether consumers must be notified when the security of their electronic confidential health information has been breached.

The House on Wednesday voted 408-9 to approve legislation that would reauthorize the Ryan White Program, which provides health care services and other assistance to low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, CQ Today reports.