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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 ...

The Weatherization Assistance Program received $5 billion in the stimulus package -- a 25-fold increase over the amount alloted in the previous fiscal year.

From the first Hispanic governor to the first African-American to be elected president, learn about how ethnic barriers have been broken in the United States through the years.

Friday, October 30, 2009 at 3:47 p.m. A leaked document shows that House ethics investigators are probing the activities of nearly three dozen lawmakers -- an ethical dust storm that will empower the Republicans and could imperil efforts to get health care reform through the House next week.- The House ethics committee said Thursday that it was ...

Rep. Jeff Flake wants Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get rid of earmarks tied to the PMA Group.

The House Thursday approved a stopgap spending measure to avoid a shutdown for 11 Cabinet-level departments whose budgets won't be enacted by a midnight Saturday deadline.

House and Senate negotiators Tuesday agreed on a $32.2 billion fiscal 2010 Interior-Environment Appropriations bill that includes a continuing resolution to fund programs for which spending bills have not been approved at fiscal 2009 levels through Dec.

Sony Pictures TV's 'Lawman,' for cabler FX, will be produced in Santa Clarita to take advantage of California's new incentives.

The Redlands Tea Party Patriots hit Market Night Thursday to inform locals about themselves and two big issues being debated in Congress.

The home of Julie Hayward Biggs and her husband Jerry became a political forum Friday when Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Campbell held an informal fundraiser/town hall meeting there.

IT'S not often that Southern California's congressional delegation comes together on an issue in a truly bipartisan way.

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Monday, October 19, 2009 at 9:35 a.m. Convinced that Rep. Charles Rangel is on the ropes because of a tangle of ethical issues, House GOP leaders are debating whether to aggressively press for his removal as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee or try to drag out the controversy as long as possible for maximum political advantage.