“Sen. Jim DeMint, patron saint of the tea party and a would-be Republican kingmaker, announced suddenly Thursday he would resign his South Carolina seat to head Washington’s conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, a shift that reverberated through a soul-searching GOP,” the AP writes, adding, “Prizing ideology over electability, DeMint sometimes...
House GOP leadership stripped four conservative representatives of committee posts this week, leaving some on the Hill to wonder if Speaker John Boehner might have fired a warning shot to members who could unsettle a potential fiscal cliff compromise.
Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, and Nita Lowey, D-NY, introduced a bill on Wednesday that would give the FDA greater authority to oversee compounding pharmacies. The bill comes in the aftermath of a meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that has left three dozen dead and regulators saying they...
The House Small Business Committee released handy charts to help business owners comply with the new provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Two charts, one for provisions that go into effect in 2013 and another for those that go into effect in 2014, explain the provisions and outline the consequences...
After passing countless bills targeting EPA regulations in the past two years—only to watch the vast majority of them collect dust in the Democratic-controlled Senate—House Republicans are beginning to acknowledge they are running out of options for challenging President Obama’s environmental agenda. “The path forward right now would be to...
When Rep. Nita Lowey of NY was picked as the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee it was a long time in coming. The veteran politician, now 75, who is the first woman to hold the ranking member position on the committee, bowed out of the New York Senate...
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