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By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scuttled the proposed "war tax" to finance the increased troop deployment to Afghanistan, telling reporters Thursday that she would oppose the idea from her closest allies in the Capitol.

Dec. 1: President Barack Obama explains his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops Afghanistan.

House Appropriations Committee ranking member Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., Monday called for holding down increases in five nondefense fiscal 2010 spending bills to 2 percent over fiscal 2009 levels to pay for most of President Obama's Afghanistan plan, which will be unveiled Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON As the president prepares to speak to the nation Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan, Rep.

State Rep. Mark McCullough will file legislation to overhaul Oklahoma's workers' compensation system to increase benefits for the injured while also driving down costs for employers.

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives and senators' votes on five roll calls from the week of Nov.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 19, 2009..The Legislature capped formal sessions for the year with several major bills in motion but unfinished, including proposals to address a $600 million deficit in the fiscal 2010 budget caused by plunging tax revenues and overly optimistic spending projections.

Republican state lawmaker will unveil legislation this afternoon that would strike the state's insanity defense in murder cases and replace it with a new standard that would require suspects found guilty, but insane be locked up for at least 10 years.

The two physicians who serve in the Senate don't sound like other Republican lawmakers when they talk about the debate over reforming the nation's health care system.

In the original Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker are in search of a freighter pilot to get off the planet.

Inland Rep. Jerry Lewis today criticized the Obama administration's decision to bring five suspected Sept.

Assemblyman Bill Emmerson, who represents Redlands and the 63rd Assembly District, confirmed Monday he will run for the 37th District Senate seat when Sen.

Congress should seek ways to improve the current health care system and make it available to more people rather than impose a new $1.3 trillion government-run plan that will raise taxes and cost jobs, Congressman Lewis said Saturday during consideration of H.R. 3962, the Democrat health care plan.

The official $1.1 trillion price tag for the House Democrats' health care bill excludes dozens of unfunded programs that could drive up costs when future congresses look to fund them.

Inland Empire lawmakers voted along party lines Saturday for and against a massive health care reform bill that Democrats hailed as a milestone and Republicans have denounced as costly and overreaching.

Conservatives say they pushed Dede Scozzafava out of the House race in New York's 23rd District a week ago because of her left-of-Republican social views - and not because she is a woman.

After 30 years, five presidents and $13 billion dollars, the Obama administration is pulling the plug on Yucca Mountain , the federal government's proposed storage facility for America's nuclear waste.

Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Redlands, released the following statement Thursday opposing the 1,990-page health care plan assembled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats.

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This story has been black-listed by the media. It can be found at politico.com but if you do a search on "PMA Group" or "Ethics Leak PMA Group" you will find few stories in the news... Citing the revelation of an ethics review of senior defense appropriators, a leading House earmark critic has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to eliminate more than ...