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Gay rights activists this week kicked off a national tour to build public support for repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," as a new lawmaker officially took the lead in sponsoring legislation that would end the ban on service by openly LGBT people in the U.S. military.

A group of accident litigants involving General Motors Corp. vehicles filed a five-page notice to appeal a ruling that clears the way for the Detroit automaker's good assets to emerge from bankruptcy this week.

Walking through the physical therapy department inside Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Tuesday, Congressman Sander Levin stopped beside the bed of a patient receiving elbow treatment.

The debate is supposed to be about combating climate change. But when the Senate takes up energy and climate legislation this summer, another word will be in the forefront: jobs.

After a "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill triggered a tit-for-tat with Canada, President Obama is warning fellow Democrats to think twice about another "protectionist" measure in the House-passed climate change bill.

The climate change legislation raced through the U.S. House on a seven-vote margin, 219-212. Eight Republicans voted for the bill, 44 Democrats voted against.

It's certainly not going to shock you to learn that the House version of the cap-and -trade global warming legislation contains a surprise.

The U.S. House passed legislation today that includes $475 million to help restore the Great Lakes.

US lawmakers concerned about how to keep industries such as steel, iron, paper and cement competitive on an international basis once a federal cap on greenhouse gases is instituted reached an agreement with the backers of a landmark climate bill Thursday that would protect those industries.

House Democratic leaders Thursday weighed tough trade penalties on countries that don't cap so-called greenhouse-gas emissions, while President Barack Obama sought support from wavering lawmakers ahead of a vote on a climate bill.

House Democratic leaders enter today's scheduled floor vote on climate change legislation confident they will have enough backing, although there is still uncertainty in their Caucus that they might fall short.

Washington -- At least four Michigan lawmakers are at the center of a furious lobbying effort as the House prepares to vote possibly late today on a bill to regulate greenhouse gases and transform the nation's energy sector.

Any lingering hope that health care reform would be bipartisan in the House seemed dashed at a Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Rep. Sander Levin denied that the health reform policy Congress is evaluating bears similarities to the Canadian health care system.

Today Stephen Levin faces OTBKB's coffee cup. A major in classics at Brown Univeristy, Levin has wonky good looks and a boyish, disarming manner.

Michigan's unemployment rate, a nation-leading 14.1 percent in May, is "an incredible crisis," a state official said Thursday in Kalamazoo.

A 20-year-old, rarely enforced law that requires workers to include the value of personal calls made on a company-issued cell phones as taxable income soon may be taken off the books.

When House Republican leaders unveiled their health care reform plan Wednesday, Rep.

U.S. House approval of a oecash-for- clunkersa legislation yesterday clears the way for Senate action that would give consumers trade-in vouchers worth as much as $4,500 to buy new vehicles.

The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a wartime spending bill including $ 1 billion for a "cash for clunkers" program to boost new car sales.