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By Kevin Freking |
May 22, 2012
Richard Carmona arrived in Washington a political novice in 2002 and left four years later scarred and frustrated. He didn't go quietly.
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By Anne D'Innocenzio |
May 14, 2012
The California State Teachers' Retirement System, one of the nation's largest pension plans, filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Wal-Mart, asking that any financial damages as a result of its leaders' actions be returned to the company. It holds more than 5.3 million shares of Wal-Mart, or well under 1...
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By Jim Abrams |
February 2, 2012
The Republican-led House on Wednesday voted to repeal a financially troubled part of the 2010 health care law that was designed to provide affordable long-term care insurance.
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By Alan Fram, Mary Clare Jalonick |
October 13, 2011
Congress flooded its supercommittee with a jumble of advice Thursday about taming the government's out-of-control debt, with top agriculture lawmakers readying a bipartisan plan to pare food and farm aid while others urged an aggressive hunt for savings coupled with warnings against cutting cherished programs.
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By Laurie Kellman |
September 28, 2011
A Republican-led House panel has asked the Planned Parenthood Federation of America to hand over more than a decade's worth of documents in a probe of whether the organization improperly spends public money on abortions.
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By Heather Trese |
July 21, 2011
A new analysis of government data by the American Action Forum found that including Medicare Part D prescription drug rebates in the final debt ceiling package would increase monthly premiums by up to 40 percent for more than 17 million seniors.
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By David Espo |
June 21, 2011
To reduce government red ink, Republicans are willing to raise government revenues, but not increase taxes. Congressional Democrats would accept reductions in Medicare spending, yet no cuts in benefits.
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By Denis Storey |
February 17, 2010
| Storey Lines
Anybody else think it's ironic that as we all raise our CEO effigies in protest of "criminal" rate hikes, public support for health care reform continues to tumble?
