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WHAT: To commemorate Veterans Day, nearly two dozen Camden County College students who are military veterans will receive the Camden County Veterans Medal to recognize them for their service to their country and community.

There's nothing more offensive to the memory of those who die while serving our country than using them as props for a nonassociated political cause.

Rep. John Adler broke from most of his party in the U.S. House to vote against the massive overhaul of the nation's health system, saying the legislation would fail to flatten the ever-rising cost of care.

President Obama suggested Monday that he was not comfortable with abortion restrictions inserted into the House version of major health care legislation, and he prodded Congress to revise them.

Participants also said Obama had referred to this week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 people were killed.

"We will pass health-care reform." Obama told the lawmakers they should approve the legislation now so he can sign a bill by the end of the year, White House spokesman Bill Burton said.

In his weekly address on the weekend before Veterans Day, President Barack Obama praises those who serve or have served in uniform.

Democratic leaders are struggling to bridge divisions over abortion that could threaten the health- care legislation, even as lawmakers debate the bill.

Obama said Saturday that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

The U.S. Postal Service has violated federal regulations by failing to provide financial details that justify the planned closing of a mail-processing facility in Gloucester County, according to U.S. Rep.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has conjured up plenty of old ghosts since launching the health care fight back in July, invoking Democrats who laid the foundation for this yeara TMs push a ' like Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.

South Jersey's two congressmen will maintain their divided opinion on legislation aimed at broadening the availability of health care insurance.

Health care is big for House Democrats: big like Social Security in the a 30s and civil rights in the a 60s, big like the war stories retold now in party caucuses as lawmakers grapple with the floor vote that is just days away.

The question of which agent is an independent contractor and which is an employee, and how a reasonable person can differentiate between the two, has long been a simmering issue for travel agencies.

They reiterated that opposition today. "South Jersey's riverfront is changing for the better, and now this plan threatens to reverse recent progress that has strengthened local communities and is protecting delicate open space," said Conners .

WASHINGTON - Under health care legislation that House leaders introduced Thursday, most of the 1.2 million uninsured New Jerseyans would gain coverage by 2013, according to a New Jersey lawmaker who helped write the plan.

Gloucester Township Mayor Cindy Rau-Hatton and her Democratic opponent, Dave Mayer, have been trading jabs and counterpunches all fall in one of the region's most expensive and contentious local races.

A Fox News host lectured a Democratic congressman who questioned the network's fair and balanced slogan during an interview on healthcare.

Kudos to Democratic Rep. Rob Andrews of New Jersey who called a FOX anchor on his bias, and oh did the FOX show anchor just a bit of pique.

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives moved closer on Tuesday to agreeing on a broad healthcare reform plan that would include the most liberal version of a government-run public insurance option.