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The House Appropriations Committee approved a $100,000 funding request by U.S. Rep.

Herald/Steven Doll State Rep. Jimmie Don Aycock, District 54, right, talks with Greg Schannep, regional director for Congressman John Carter, and John Crutchfield, left, president of the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce, during the social time before a luncheon Thursday at Shilo Inna s ballroom.

President Bush signed a tough new identity theft bill into law today, legislation passed by Congress in response to evidence that the problem is growing rapidly as more Americans use the Internet to shop and manage their personal finances.

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has become the sixth co-sponsor of a proposal by Rep.

Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 14:28. A group of House Republican lawmakers want all future aspirants for the White House to produce a U.S. birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president.

A popular Tennessee Congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn , has become the first woman and the first Tennessean to add her name to the list of co-sponsors for Representative Bill Posey's proposed amendment .

After her son Cal died of an undiagnosed disease, Heather Long with daughter Emily, 10 pursued creating a national database of such cases.

By Amanda Kim Stairrett Killeen Daily Herald FORT HOOD - The post honored "two giants" Monday as its main gate and road were rededicated in honor of Bernice Beck and Tommy Joe Mills.

A North Texas congressman is among three Texans cosponsoring the so-called "birther bill" requiring presidential candidates produce a birth certificate to prove they meet constitutional requirements to be president.

Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, and Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, came down on opposite sides Friday as the U.S. House voted 217-205 to advance a controversial White House-backed climate bill to the House floor.

In a bit of unfortunate timing, this story appeared in Politico yesterday , titled "A Republican Comeback?" about the prospects for a resurgent Republican Party, and their hopes for making gains in next year's mid-term elections.

Rep. Bill Posey's bill aimed at casting doubt over the citizenship status of President Obama appears to be gaining momentum within the Republican Party.

When you go fishing, sometimes you catch a little fish and sometimes you catch a big fish.

BIRTHER BILL SPEAKS OUT.... Rep. Bill Posey, a conservative Republican congressman from Florida, is perhaps best known for his efforts to require presidential candidates to present a valid birth certificate before seeking national office.

David Weigel tells us what some of our Republican Congressfolk have been up to. Rep. Bill Posey , who has introduced a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, has collected four more co-sponsors - Reps.

The U.S. post office in Georgetown will become the "Kile G. West Post Office Building" if a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives June 15 by U.S. Rep.

President Barack Obama The Justice Department confirmed last week that FBI agents in Afghanistan are reading Miranda warnings to suspected terrorists captured there, a practice that Republican congressmen this week branded as "crazy" and "stupid." Miranda warnings were mandated by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that said domestic law enforcement ...

On May 21, 2009, Rep. John Carter introduced a bill, H.R.2538 , into the U.S. House of Representatives.

The closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention center has provoked a curious form of hyperbole from Rep.

The possibility that a scientist could discover the cure for cancer in Georgetown became a reality when Molecular Templates, Inc.