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In what has become an all-too-familiar sight on Capitol Hill, at least a half-dozen members of the exiled Iranian group Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, arrived at Thursday's hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, all dressed in their trademark yellow shirts.

The California Republican apparently thought better of proceeding with a census bill on Wednesday that had been panned as a bad idea by experts called by his own committee.

Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that he thinks the best way to respond to the crisis in Ukraine would be drilling for oil and natural gas "in every possible conceivable place" in the U.S. Paul, who won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that if he were ... (more)

The crisis in Ukraine has sparked calls for the U.S. to step up its natural gas exports.

How can the U.S. break the Russian energy cartel that can hold Europe hostage on a whim? By exporting natural gas, say federal lawmakers and energy experts.

Momentum is building in Congress to wield the United States' vast natural gas resources to break Vladimir Putin's energy stranglehold over Ukraine - although some lawmakers acknowledged their efforts would have no immediate impact on the crisis in Crimea.

House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday called on the Obama administration to allow more exports of natural gas, which he said is a move that would help weaken the influence of Russia.

A national conference on human trafficking is bringing together activists, law enforcement and business leaders in St. Louis this week.

What: The MLP Parity Act is a bill currently before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance seeking to expand Section 7704 of the Internal Revenue Code to include income received from renewable energy sources, including: wind, geothermal, solar, hydropower, marine and hydrokinetic, electricity storage, energy-efficient buildings and carbon capture.

Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill Thursday that would allow a congressional member to stop the president from directing his administration not to enforce federal laws.

The AAFP once again appealed to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to vary her course regarding the fast-approaching deadline for the nation's transition to the ICD-10-CM code sets for outpatient diagnostic coding.

Poe made this statement during a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili in Washington, the Georgian Prime Minister's press-service reported.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn unveiled legislation in Longview on Sunday to give agencies that are battling sex trafficking a funding source in their effort to return young women to normal life.