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Gutting Dornan Amendment, Senate Approves Federal Funding for Abortions in D.C. Washington D.C., Dec 16, 2009 .- On Sunday the U.S. Senate approved a $447 billion omnibus bill that gutted the Dornan Amendment, a ban on funding for most abortions in the District of Columbia, the nation's capital.

St. Barnabas Hospital will use $19.8 million of federal stimulus funding to build a new parking garage that will mean more spaces, but less jobs.

Only Obama's Signature Now Needed on Historic Measure WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the decade long ban on implementation of the medical marijuana law Washington, D.C. voters passed in 1998.

For the weary inhabitants of the state Capitol, 2009 has been a trying year -- one of tumultuous leadership changes, perpetual fiscal crisis, endless special sessions and difficult votes for marginal Democrats.

Citizens Against Government Waste is combing through the fiscal year 2010 omnibus bill containing six appropriations bills , preparing to announce earmark totals.

The House rejected efforts to revive limits in Washington on financing of needle-exchange programs like Prevention Works.

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.

While DC parents and children wait to find out whether the District of Columbia's popular school voucher program will be renewed, the necessary legislation is awaiting action among a muddy and controversial stack of bills slated to make their way through the 111th Congress.

As Christmas grows closer, the hopes of thousands of D.C. schoolchildren and their families are appearing dimmer and dimmer, and no one is celebrating more than the teachers' unions.

Smart discussion of the latest science and news on toxins in your food, water, and air, and what government agencies should be doing to protect public health.

The long-suffering tenants of 14 buildings abandoned to disrepair by their landlord declared victory Wednesday as Fannie Mae found a buyer who promises to fix and keep the apartments affordable.

President Obama and other Democrats are battling among themselves over school vouchers, with low-income D.C. schoolchild ren caught in the middle.

ALBANY - With a goal toward opening up governmental proceedings to the public, lawmakers are working to expand the state's legislative cable television channel.

The U.S. Postal Service loses more money every year. Is there a future for 'snail mail'? What shape is the Postal Service in? It's hurting.

City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. , weighing his options in the wake of a surprisingly close loss in the mayoral race, is seriously considering challenging Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in next year's primary elections, according to people who have spoken to Mr.

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As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.

The coalition to save the endangered D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program today laid out a clear and simple choice for Members of Congress: you can either side with D.C.'s low income children or side with the special interests who seek to deny those children the educational options they deserve.

After remaining on the sidelines for years, government now seems eager to keep up with the ever evolving world of technology and new media and even to advance it.

As activists on Puerto Rico and around the country continue to organize vigils and other memorials in honor of Jorge Steven Lopez, LGBT rights organizations and even politicians have urged local officials to treat the teenager's gruesome murder as a hate crime.