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This first session of the 113th Congress may be the least productive ever , but there are still plenty of ways to rate members' performances.

Government figures released Wednesday show 398 Alaskans signed up for private health insurance during the first two months of the online marketplace.

On Tuesday, a national nonprofit group supported by celebrity chef Tom Colicchio announced that 87 members of Congress scored a perfect 100 on the 2013 National Food Policy Scorecard , which tracked lawmakers on 19 votes in the U.S. House and Senate during the most recent session.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young obtained policies through a Washington, D.C., marketplace.

Food Policy Action board members, including "Top Chef: All Stars" alums Tom Colicchio, left, and Mike Isabella, gathered to grade members of Congress on their voting record on food issues.

Majority Democrats in the Senate won approval Tuesday for one of President Barack Obama's key judicial nominees, the first of his picks to win confirmation since they weakened the chamber's filibuster rules.

In this June 4, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, to announce the judicial nominations including Patricia Ann Millett, right, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The following essay is part of a series in which dozens of women will reveal what women they most admire.

FIRST IN PI GUZY JUMPS FROM W.H. TO COVINGTON: Law firm and lobbying shop Covington & Burling announced Monday that Gary Guzy will join the firm's environmental, public policy and government affairs practices.

Senators Lisa Murkowski , Ron Wyden , Mark Udall , Dean Heller , and 13 other senators introduced legislation on October 29 addressing the critical minerals supply chain.

A spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service says the agency has sent a couple clerks from Juneau to help ease staffing problems at the Skagway post office.

Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson, left, greets U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax on Nov. 22. Hagel released the first U.S. Arctic Strategy report at the meeting, and pointed to the 22,000 military personnel in Alaska as proof of American priorities in the region.

That's the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's interim meeting this week in Seattle.

Many of us felt a sense of pride and admiration in scenes of the USS George Washington off the Philippine city of Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan.

Two leading Democratic legislators from Anchorage on Tuesday demanded that Congress require more disclosure of who is funneling money into congressional races.

In a letter sent to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Tuesday afternoon, a group of eight senators, including Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the agency to make the information used to draft specifications under the program publicly available.

Dan Sullivan, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, speaks during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on rare earths legislation in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2011.

As the ice-locked Arctic is transformed to ocean, unleashing unprecedented shipping traffic and human activity, what will that mean for U.S. ships and infrastructure? Climate changes in the region have prompted the Department of Defense to release its " Arctic Strategy ," a long-term plan to keep the military's infrastructure in line with the ... (more)

Will Alaska's halibut catches be cut again next year? That's the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's interim meeting this week in Seattle.

The four U.S. senators from Washington and Alaska are seeking to authorize construction of as many as four new heavy-duty icebreakers, vastly expanding the Coast Guard's beleaguered Seattle-based icebreaker fleet.