by Lauren Caruba | Mar 12, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Republicans aggressively cross-examined Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the rocky implementation of the Affordable Care Act Wednesday, saying the law isn’t working as promised. At a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the...
by Jane Herman | Mar 12, 2014 | Immigration
WASHINGTON—The growing number of refugees who are children fleeing Central American countries because of violence, abuses and hardships is a top priority for the U.N., United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said Wednesday. “Even if we have to...
by Mary Kate Hayes | Mar 12, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – An anticipated wave of baby boomer retirements over the next 20 years has the U.S. Labor Department worried. On average, 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 per day. This large number of retirees requires resources to help them choose retirement plans. A 1974 law...
by Christophe Haubursin | Mar 11, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Connecticut’s members of Congress welcomed a cycling team from Newtown, Conn. outside the Capitol Tuesday, urging their colleagues on Capitol Hill to tighten gun control laws 15 months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Team 26, a...
by Sara Olstad | Mar 11, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – A seven-foot-tall, bronze statue of Iowa’s Norman Borlaug, “the man who saved a billion lives” by developing new varieties of high-yield wheat during the Great Depression, will be unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on March 25, the 100th anniversary of his...
by Preetisha Sen | Mar 11, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Federal budget director Sylvia Burwell said this is “the week of hearings” for her and various cabinet departments to help lawmakers digest the basics of President Barack’s Obama’s the $3.9 trillion budget. But the budget and its defenders will...
by Sylvan Lane | Mar 11, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON—The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee said Tuesday that the GOP is honing in on seven House Democratic seats that the majority party hopes to flip in this year’s midterm elections. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., told reporters that...
by Jonathan Palmer | Mar 11, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A bill to reauthorize major child care legislation will be voted on this week in the Senate with a key Republican joining Democrats to champion the proposal after years of inaction. The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 would update and...
by Jessica Floum | Mar 11, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — CIA Director John Brennan Tuesday denied allegations that his agency tampered with the network of senators investigating the CIA’s controversial detention and interrogation program even as Sen. Dianne Feinstein sharpened her accusations, accusing...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 11, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin said Tuesday he will introduce a bill to provide “steady, predictable funding” for biomedical research, saying the U.S. has an “innovation deficit.” During a speech at the non-partisan think tank, the Center for...
by Jane Herman | Mar 11, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON–Locked in a seven by ten foot cell for twenty-three hours a day, with little to no human contact except for the brief mutterings of a prison guard: this was Brian Nelson’s typical day for 23 years in solitary confinement. “Yes I committed a...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Mar 10, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously voted to pass a bill to reform military sexual assault policy Monday, bringing an end to an almost year-long battle between two Democratic female senators on how best to overhaul the Pentagon’s existing practices. After New York...
