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WASHINGTON - Members of Tennessee's congressional delegation want President Barack Obama to answer a key question when he delivers a speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan policy: What constitutes success there? "I think that is page 1," Sen.

TOPICS Sunday Morning Talk Shows These times are so uncertain There's a yearning undefined ...People filled with rage We all need a little tenderness How can love survive in such a graceless age The trust and self-assurance that can lead to happiness They're the very things we kill, I guess Pride and competition cannot fill these empty arms And the ...

Mammograms are the new "death panels," the latest in the arsenal of lies Republicans have used to shoot down health care reform.

It wasn't thanks to its chief cheerleader, Barack Obama, but in spite of him. What a mess he's made of the politics here.

Lineup of guests for todaya TMs TV news shows: ABCa TMs This Week a ' Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Reps.

November 23, 2009 - Comments Useless reporting from the NY Post . "This is how rationing begins.

Republican congressional women pushed back against a government study suggesting women should wait until age 50 for regular mammograms, warning that such recommendations could lead to government rationing of medical tests and undetected breast cancer cases in younger women.

From This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn and Democratic Rep.

Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings.

A day after the Senate voted to take up the health care reform bill, President Obama's top domestic priority dominated the discussion on Sunday morning talk shows.

The Task Force now recommends that mammography, the most common screening tool for early detection of breast cancer, not be done routinely on patients younger than 50.

Dem: GOP has 'politicized breast cancer' - POLITICO Live: Dem: GOP has 'politicized breast cancer' Categories: Dem: GOP has 'politicized breast cancer' Rep.

Meet the Press : Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin ; Sen. Diane Feinstein ; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson ; Sen.

The U.S. Preventive Task Force is under fire this week after it issued new clinical guidelines recommending that women 40-49 forgo annual mammograms unless they have certain risk factors, like genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to breast cancer.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is an "unworthy partner" who does not deserve a big boost either in U.S. troops or civilian aid, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ABC's "This Week" - Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb.; Reps.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday said that federal health insurance programs will not alter their mammogram coverage policies following new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the New York Times reports.

The Reid gambit: Health care 'holy war'? Mark Mellman, Democratic strategist "Why Republicans would want to go to war to protect the ability of rapacious insurance companies to take away coverage from those who get sick or old is beyond me.

"The task force has presented some new evidence for consideration, but our policies remain unchanged," she said.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., center, and Rep.

WASHINGTON -- Legislation co-authored by Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Murfreesboro, that would ban the importation of low-level nuclear waste was approved by a House committee on Thursday.

From Bart Sullivan : Tennessee picked up 38 seats in the House of Representatives overnight and will soon have more Electoral College clout than Texas, U.S. Rep.

With nearly 4,000 swine flu deaths so far in the U.S. Congress wants to know, are terror suspects getting the vaccine first, before students, pregnant women, and sick Americans? A key health official did a 180 when pressed on that Wednesday.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., center, flanked by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, and... Rep.

In a blog posted to the Obama administration's Web site late Tuesday, White House Deputy Communications Director Daniel Pfeiffer blasted critics of new guidelines that recommend against annual screening for breast cancer for women under 50, and took particular aim at an article posted on FoxNews.com. iStock The White House went on defense Wednesday ...

Tennessee picked up 38 seats in the House of Representatives overnight and will soon have more Electoral College clout than Texas, U.S. Rep.

The Call 'Em Out series continues this week -- and this time wea TMre calling out the House GOP .

The most popular line at Friday night's gathering of what organizer Lee Mills called "the largest Republican voting bloc in the state of Tennessee" was offered with greatest gusto by Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn.

Nothing gets the right wing all riled up like a good phony fight. Think "death panels." Think of the coming "War on Christmas." Think of all the bile directed toward the extinct Fairness Doctrine, which the Federal Communications Commission repealed in 1987.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee and the first woman elected to Congress in her district, also serves as chairwoman of the songwriter's caucus.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.- How we get our health insurance could soon change forever. A crucial vote in the House Saturday night may mean health care reform could be a reality by early next year.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- President Obama's health care initiative is making progress in the House with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.

Two Tennessee members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted with the majority in passing a health care reform bill over the weekend.

Joe Cao of Louisiana voted with the Democrats for the bill. Cohen and Cooper were ayes.

'We are here for one purpose, and that purpose is to kill the bill!' said Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.

The health-care bill the House planned to vote on this weekend had been hailed as a historic milestone in the decades-long effort to increase the number of Americans with insurance while slowing the growth in health-care spending.

Foes of the House Democrats' health care bill rallied outside the Capitol Saturday afternoon, hours before what many of them anticipate will be a setback for their position -- approval of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bill.

After three public hearings in one week on the increasingly hot-button issue of distracted driving, Congress appears no closer to answering the question of whether a punitive strategy for encouraging state-level action -- such as threatening to withhold highway funds -- can win sufficient support from conservatives.

RARE SATURDAY SESSION: The House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on the Democratic-proposed legislation after an abortion-relationed impasse cleared AP, WASHINGTON Sunday, Nov 08, 2009, Page 1 Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn stands beside a copy of healthcare legislation drafted by Democrats at a press conference with other ...

Whether it was billing the event as a "Super Bowl of Freedom" or challenging conservatives to "scare" members of Congress, it worked.

While the Washington Post ran a full news story by Philip Rucker on the conservative Capitol Hill rally on page 4 on Friday, The New York Times buried it with just six paragraphs a ' smack dab in in the middle of a story on A-15 headlined "House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote." The story by Times reporters Carl Hulse and David M.

U.S soldiers watch as a U.S. helicopter arrives to resupply them with ammunition during battles with the Taliban in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province.

"Every day that we delay them moving to the floor with this bill is a very, very good thing." Marsha Blackburn Those are the words of U.S. Rep.

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives rallied at the Capitol on Thursday against the Democrats' health care overhaul plan, labeling it a government takeover of the nation's medical system.

Wednesday morning the vote was delayed until early 2010. The Brentwood Republican squeezed the call in between votes on the Veteran's Small Business Protection Act, a resolution recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Air Lift and a National Veteran's History Project Week.

The leading Republican overseeing federal transportation spending saw firsthand Monday what Interstate 65 drivers see most every morning and late afternoon: backed-up traffic, thousands of brake lights and a major north-south artery in need of help.

Opening thought: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: He that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

Even as the global warming hoax threatens to plunge the country into a depression via demented Tax & Charade legislation, its most strident pitchman is exploiting it to amass astounding fortunes - as his enablers at the New York Slimes admit: Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the ...

Central Asia News.Net Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 Former US Vice President Al Gore could become the worlda s first carbon billionaire following his investments in green energy companies after anticipating the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy.

Mozilla on Friday issued its support for the Federal Communications Commission 's proposed net neutrality rules, but a House Republican this week introduced a bill that would block the commission's efforts.