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A new report shows that lean economic times didn't stop members of Congress from splurging taxpayer dollars on food and drink, including a $6,090 meal tab racked up in a single day by Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo during a visit home with members of the House Natural Resources Committee.

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For California political types, the holidays don't start until Orange County Congressmember Loretta Sanchez drops her annual Christmas card featuring a goofy picture of her and her cat, Gretzky.

If Tareq and Michaele Salahi had been on last Tuesday's White House guest list they would have fallen between the Obamas' fellow Chicagoans and early supporters and donors, Michael and Cari Sacks, and Democratic Rep.

Bob Barr, the four term Republican Georgia congressman turned ACLU activist and 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate, has denounced Rep.

Since 1953, the Rick Rackers, an Auxiliary of Assistance League of Long Beach, have honored an outstanding woman in the community with its prestigious Woman of the Year award.

Assemblyman Curt Hagman has been appointed to the Assembly Insurance and Judiciary committees.

Bob Barr, the four term Republican Georgia congressman turned ACLU activist and 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate, has denounced Rep.

The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union believes he is biased.Dr. Ira Casson has criticized independent and league-sponsored studies linking NFL careers with heightened risk for dementia and cognitive decline, saying more research is needed."We've expressed ...

U.S. Congresswoman Linda Sanchez of California today urged Congress to reject Chevrona s attempts to co-opt US foreign trade policy and programs so that the company could gain an advantage in private litigation and to focus on the merits of renewing trade preferences in testimony before the House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee.

Facing the possibility of a $27 billion pollution judgment against it in an Ecuadorean court, Chevron launched an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign to try to prevent the judgment as well as reverse a deeply damaging story line.

"Steven, I don't care what they say, I'm not going to change." Only two people in the world get away with calling me Steven.

"Has Congress become like an episode of 'Mad Men'?" California Congresswoman Linda Sanchez asked this week , after the House of Representatives approved a version of health care reform that contained what some pro-choice advocates are calling the toughest restrictions on women's access to abortion since the passage of Roe v. Wade.

One year ago, 53 percent of voters in the country went to the polls and elected the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.

Yesterday morning, I went to the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on head injuries in the NFL.

In September 1994, after leaving the Steelers for the Chicago Bears, fullback Merril Hoge suffered a concussion, the first of his career.

The more quintessentially American something is, the more the progressive left hates it.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell did not acknowledge a connection between head injuries on the football field and later brain diseases while defending the league's policies on concussions before Congress on Wednesday.

Fourteen congressional members from Southern California have signed a letter to county transportation authorities asking them to request federal funds for the Gold Line Foothill Extension.

A group of cities and a state agency, which wants to build an 800-mile high-speed railroad in California, have reached a tentative agreement calling on both to work together to address local concerns.