by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 15, 2011 | National Security
Army Corporal Frank Buckles, the longest living American World War I veteran, died last month at the age of 110. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday. Before the burial, his body lay in a casket in the Memorial Chapel at Arlington.
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 9, 2011 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood defended his department’s 2012 budget request to a Senate committee on Wednesday. The Obama administration is seeking a significant increase in transportation spending to help build out U.S. infrastructure as part...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The head of the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce the agency’s spending by 12.5 percent in 2012 in an appearance in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “This FY 2012...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Imagine walking down independence Avenue late one Friday night. The time is way past when you would expect anyone to be working. Yet, as you walk by government building after government building, you notice that just about every single light on. The...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 16, 2011 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON—Two men with a history of unabashed sparring sat together on Capitol Hill Wednesday to push the need for a strong transportation bill that helps America upgrade its lagging infrastructure. Thomas J. Donahue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 8, 2011 | Business, Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Influential environmental leaders and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency touted the benefits of “green jobs” on Tuesday. “Environmental protection and economic growth can and do go hand in hand,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 2, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will set a national drinking water standard for the toxic substance perchlorate. The EPA said it was reversing a 2008 Bush administration ruling. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson made the...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Jan 18, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON—The Wilderness Society brought its case for protecting public lands to the National Press Club on Tuesday. At stake: where to allow oil-and-gas drilling and mining, and how to offer guidance to the government on renewable energy efforts. The society, the...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Jan 11, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON— The commission President Barack Obama set up in late May to look into the Deepwater Horizon accident issued its final report on the largest oil spill in U.S. history Tuesday, recommending that Congress, federal agencies and the oil industry undertake...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Jan 5, 2011 | Politics
Story by Lauren Schwartzberg and Roshan Nebhrajani Business meetings, banquets and bedtime. The offices of some congressmen host all three. By 4 p.m. Wednesday, all new and re-elected members of the 112th Congress will be sworn in. Members of Congress are required to...
