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Sen. Tom Coburn has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which it is scheduled to do on Oct.

Congress started it all this year when it voted to allow drones to fly in the U.S. as soon as 2015.

April 27, 2012: Seattle Police officer Reuben Omelanchuk is at the controls of the department's new, small radio-controlled Draganflyer X6 drone with a camera attached, in Seattle.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives focused on the Fourth Amendment implications of domestic UAV surveillance at a hearing May 17, but did not get a unified message from witnesses on how to tackle the issue.

The controversial military tool is cleared for use domestically in 2015. Miranda Green reports from the House committee charged with what setting the rules on new eyes in the sky.

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Eventually, courts will step in and have their say on the matter, determining how the unmanned aircraft fit into existing expectation of privacy standards and limits on government surveillance.

The White House just came out in favor of a federal shield law to protect reporters.

Unanswered questions surrounding the deadly Benghazi attack. The IRS targeting conservative groups.

To the federal government, ethanol only counts as a conventional biofuel if it is produced from switch grass, corn starch or other easily replenished materials.

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, recently said doctor offices will become even more burdened by federal billing bureaucracy - with one example being nine different Medicare codes for turkey injuries.

Legislation has been re-introduced in Congress that would give investors in renewable energy projects access to a corporate structure currently only available for fossil fuel-based energy projects.

Momentum to update the nation's antiquated email privacy laws is again coursing through the Capitol - and this time, movement is coming from the right.

In our book Clean Tech Nation , which came out late last year, Clint Wilder and I offered up a Seven-Point Action Plan for Repowering America.

Campaign poster showing William McKinley holding U.S. flag and standing on gold coin "sound money", held up by group of men, in front of ships "commerce" and factories "civilization". Just as there are many variations on democracy, there are also various-and legitimate-types of gold standards.

Texas' real-life redistricting, as we all know, has left something to be desired.

The health care industry is "not progressing at a suitable pace" to be ready for tens of thousands of new government-mandated "ICD-10" codes used to describe diseases and hospital procedures in the insurance billing process, a new analysis shows.

On Tuesday, Somali national Omar Mohamed Kalmio got life in prison for a 2011 mass murder in two parts.

Rep. Jeff Duncan has a plan to help us cope with information overload. His H. R. 1638 would simply eliminate all the data collection that the U.S. Census Bureau does except for the decennial population count.

The first time anyone outside of Florida's Space Coast heard of Rep. Bill Posey, he was talking about Barack Obama's birth certificate.