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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken its hits this week for warning consumers about tomatoes that might cause salmonella poisoning, and its subsequent admission that maybe something other than ...

Shelley Berkley was poised by a main door to the House chamber last week as representatives began filing in for a vote on a Michigan gaming bill, handing out pink fliers as if she were running for student body ...

For the second year in a row legislators have scolded the Food and Drug Administration for doling out most of its bonus money to top managers instead of field inspectors.

WHAT: The Army Reserve's partnership with Con-way Freight is the first such partnership of its kind in the state of Michigan.

The House soundly defeated a plan Wednesday that would have advanced two proposed Indian casinos in Michigan, as gambling opponents and interests protecting Detroit's casinos rallied to scuttle the bill.

By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Page A03 By a surprisingly large bipartisan margin, the House voted yesterday to postpone a planned cut in payments to physicians who treat ...

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: Primary Care / General Practice ; Public Health Article Date: 27 Jun 2008 - 10:00 PDT The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Wednesday by ...

Main Category: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Also Included In: Pharmacy / Pharmacist Article Date: 25 Jun 2008 HDMA applauds House and Ways Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel and House Energy and Commerce ...

A review of bonuses paid to employees at the Food and Drug Administration showed many went to the agency's highest-paid staff rather than to the inspectors in the field, according to a review by the House ...

The House Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would shave billions of dollars from health plans that contract with the federal Medicare program.

Some lawmakers are calling for a federal probe of security measures at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after a simulated terrorist attack resulted in the defeat of the facility's guards and a theft of fake plutonium.

The laboratory, located 50 miles east of San Francisco, is the nation's top nuclear weapons design facility.

Democratic Reps. John Dingell and Bart Stupak of Michigan say they want the Government Accountability Office to look into the Department of Energy's handling of security at the facility considering the successful simulated terrorist attack in April.

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: Public Health Article Date: 25 Jun 2008 House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell and ranking member Joe Barton on Tuesday plan to introduce ...

The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.

Robert Reid told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that speculators aren't out to hurt consumers but rather to serve as "financial participants" in the oil market.

Lawmakers continue to blame large investors for their role in propping up oil prices, pointing out Monday that speculation in crude futures has nearly doubled since 2000.

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory is using duct tape to seal a room where deadly bacteria experiments are performed, officials say.

WASHINGTON -- A fight over proposed American Indian casinos in Romulus and Port Huron may reach the floor of Congress this week, where two Michigan political heavyweights find themselves on opposite sides of ...

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has routinely rolled over her opponents for Michigan's 13th District congressional seat, building up a near-lock on the Wayne County seat after 12 years.

Federal officials said Thursday that they might never learn which farms produced tainted tomatoes that have now sickened 228 people in 23 states with a rare form of salmonella.

Michigan's U.S. House delegation has amassed a solid financial foundation through investment funds, stock and pensions.