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Mattoon- Will it or won't it? After nearly two years of FutureGen talk, it looks like a decision on the clean burning coal plant is just weeks away.

One group that has changed dramatically since past immigration battles -- with help from the growing influence of social networking--are the so-called 'DREAMers': undocumented youth who would benefit from the proposed DREAM Act.

The family of an O'Fallon, Illinois soldier who lost his leg in Iraq is asking serious questions about treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC.

Members of Illinois' congressional delegation will be visiting a southern Illinois Veterans Affairs hospital to discuss with administrators there how its lingering troubles can be fixed.

Senate Democrats, struggling to reach agreement on how to overhaul the country's health care system, got some practical political advice Tuesday from former President Bill Clinton, whose own effort collapsed 15 years ago.

Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate said on Tuesday they hope to bring a long-delayed health care reform bill to the floor next week, kicking off a tough fight that may well spill into next year.

MARION, IL NEWS 25 continues to track the problems that have plagued a southern Illinois VA Hospital serving Tri-State veterans.

The lobbying group for oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp.

Pat Quinn's new TV ad accuses Comptroller Dan Hynes of going to a "spa" and taking a family vacation during July's budget negotiations.

Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Article Date: 05 Nov 2009 Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin acknowledged Tuesday that lawmakers likely will combine a few fiscal year 2010 appropriations bills into an omnibus measure to allow for quick passage before the end of the calendar year, ...

Sen. Durbin last night and today is once again using his leadership position to make and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship.

Senate Democrats and Republicans traded blows today over who is responsible for the slow pace of voting to extend unemployment benefits, leaving in doubt a final vote before Wednesday at the earliest on the high-stakes issue to tens of thousands of Michiganians.

A new report from the inspector general in the Department of Veterans Affairs finds that the VA Medical Center in Marion, Ill., continues to be plagued by quality management and patient care problems some two years after a suspicious spike in the number of post-surgical patient deaths there.

Senator Durbin and Representative Eshoo introduced companion bills to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels.

More than six months after the federal government began accepting petitions for work visas popular with Silicon Valley companies, thousands of spots remain open, a reflection of the nation's high unemployment and the political pressure to hire citizens, experts say.

Browse> Home / News / Senator Alexander Says Health Bill to Cost $1,000,000,000,000 October 30, 2009 U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander today made the following remarks on the floor of the Senate: A a oeI have an important announcement to make on a subject which I believe will be of interest to the American people: the era of the 1,000-page bill is over.

Let's hope helicopters don't have to be sent in someday to rescue bankers. The pros who take in deposits and make loans are being demonized as the root of the recession.

Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both Maine Republicans, have been in the spotlight this year because of their ability to cross party lines with political impunity, Politico reports.

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is gambling that he can keep his partya s votes together as he pushes for a government-run health-insurance program thata s likely to alienate the one Republican on his side.

This article is reprinted by permission from the NGFA Newsletter, Vol. 61, Number 21, Oct.