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The Leonard Wood Institute, announced last week it has awarded more than $18 million in funding for research and development projects that will be carried out over the next year to benefit the U.S. Army.

Congress is divided about how - and even whether - to move forward with independent investigations of the recent shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

The White House takes the day from this Sunday's television talk shows, as Democratic and Republican lawmakers fill in to discuss the dire new unemployment report, the tragic shootings at Fort Hood, and if it goes off as planned the House vote this weekend on health care reform legislation.

Dem Reps. Matheson, Skelton, and Kosmas are facing serious blowback from the left for voting 'no.' Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO Democrats who thought a vote against the sweeping health care package would inoculate them from political attack are facing serious blowback from angry constituents and interest groups on the left - fierce ...

Rachel Maddow runs down the list for us of C-Street family members who also voted for Bart Stupak's anti-abortion amendment yesterday.

As the 2010 campaign cycle begins in earnest, the central question in the House of Representatives is how many seats will Republicans win ? Few political observers or elected officials doubt that an energized GOP has a headwind at its back.

By Julie Ardery and Bill Bishop, DailyYonder.com , Guest Writer, 11-09-09 39 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed the Democrat-sponsored bill to change the nation's health insurance system.

The 39 Democrats who voted against passage of the House health care reform bill will be as indelibly remembered politically as the 29 Senate Democrats who foolishly voted in 2002 to support the Iraq War.

Immediately following last night's passage of health insurance reform in the U.S. House of Representatives, Missouri politicians, candidates and special interest groups began issuing statements responding to the narrow 220-215 vote.

A pounded gavel, the votes, then four words: The bill is passed.With that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced narrow passage Saturday of historic legislation that would fundamentally change American health care for decades.

The Associated Press : "Voting is set for Saturday on the 10-year, $1.2 trillion legislation that embraces Obama's goals of extending health coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and putting tough new restrictions on insurance companies." The points of contention remain abortion and immigration .

Missouri Democratic Rep. Ike Skelton, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, said during an appearance on "Face the Nation" that launching a congressional investigation now into the deadly shooting at Fort Hood would be premature.

With just hours remaining until an historic vote on a sweeping health-care reform measure Saturday evening, at least 34 Democrats have said they will vote against the bill as of 8:45 p.m., according to a POLITICO analysis.

After the House of Representatives passed the health care overhaul on Saturday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was joined at a news conference by Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Rep.

Moveon.org has reportedly raised $3,578,117 in contributions to fund primary challenges against 'any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,' according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.

Washington -- Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton will stand with Republicans in opposing a historic $1.1 trillion health care bill that Democrats plan to debate Saturday.

November 5, 2009 - Thousands of people from across the coutnry protest the health care bill at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Congress In Arrears How many times in the last 11 years has Congress completed all appropriation bill actions by the start of the new fiscal year? MOAA Makes Case to Speaker Pelosi.

Friday, November 06, 2009 From http://lifenews.com/nat5623.html Pro-Abortion MoveOn to Challenge Pro-Life Democrats Voting No on Health Care by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 6, 2009 addthis_pub = 'sertelt'; Email RSS Print Washington, DC -- The pro-abortion grassroots activist group MoveOn says it has raised millions of dollars to take ...

Congressional Democrats lost a key vote in the health-care debate Thursday, when U.S. Rep.