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Opponents of the USA Patriot Act say that a congressional move to consider temporarily extending three key provisions that are due to expire at year's end opens the door to try to alter or eliminate some of the national security strategies implemented by former President George W. Bush and embraced by President Barack Obama.Extending the provisions ...

Cap and trade carbon dioxide if you like, but A.P. Moller-Maersk wants to ship it.

Two Democratic congressmen whose districts include substantial parts of Brooklyn have voiced widely different views on President Barack Obama's decision to deploy an additional 30,000 troops to fight in Afghanistan.

Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler cheered the increase in funding for affordable housing and HIV/AIDS housing included in H.R. 3288, the FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which passed the House of Representatives.

"Rep. Jerrold Nadler said in an interview with DC Agenda that lawmakers will work on passing other pro-LGBT bills next year, and could take up legislation to repeal DOMA - known as the Respect for Marriage Act - at the end of the two-year session starting in 2011.

Reps. Carolyn Maloney , Jerrold Nadler , Peter King , and Michael McMahon today applauded the House passage of $70.7 million in new funding for federal 9/11 health programs.

The current federal funding ban expires Dec. 18. On Tuesday evening the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep.

Rep. Barney Frank is an outspoken guy with a knack for word crafta 'in other words, a born tweeter.

We're notA doomed - or at least we don't have to be. The public officials and local thinkers who contributed to a new book on New York 's future say our salvation lies in small, high-tech factories, green roofs, new public transit - or even in a freight tunnel under the Hudson.

Share + Dec 6, 2009 8:42 am US/Eastern 1 of 2 CBS 2 of 2 An image of a courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash attending a pre-trial session on Dec.

A rally held yesterday to protest the planned trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his associates in a New York federal district court drew thousands of protesters , despite cold weather, high winds, and heavy rain in New York City.

Share + Dec 5, 2009 5:30 pm US/Central NEW YORK 1 of 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, arrested al Qaeda leader and mastermind of September 11 terrorist attacks, is seen on March 1, 2003, after capture during a raid in Pakistan.

A group of 9/11 families and their supporters are rallying in front of Manhattan's federal courthouse to protest the plan to put terrorism suspects on trial in New York.

Liberal feminist Democrats are as mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

U.S. Army Capt. Max Hanlin meets with Afghan elders in Kandahar province Making it Work Last week the President laid out fundamental visions for the war in Afghanistan and the war on unemployment.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, one of the most liberal members of New Yorka s Congressional delegation, endorsed Sen.

Gay activists in New York pressed for a vote on gay marriage only to see the measure rejected overwhelmingly on Wednesday.

Monday, November 30, 2009 Rep. Weiner and 27 Members of Congress Call on Agriculture Secretary to End Fingerprinting for Food Stamps Applicants... Practice is Unnecessary, Discourages Program Participation and Wastes Money Following reports that more New Yorkers went hungry in 2008 than the year before, Representative Anthony Weiner , a member of ...

Blue America decided to lead off our endorsements for 2010 with a vote from people who have been donating to our PAC and our candidates for the past four years.

RESTORED: The Cortland Street subway station in lower Manhattan was reopened Wednesday.