WASHINGTON D.C. - As a young man growing up in Bloomington, Adam Kinzinger enjoyed watching the State of the Union addresses each January. As long as I can remember, I've watched those speeches, both as a kid and as an adult," Kinzinger said.
Responding to a remapping of the state's congressional districts that has been submitted by a three-judge federal panel, U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss., expressed disappointment Tuesday that Panola, Yalobusha and Grenada counties would no longer be part of his First District. I've made many friends in those counties, and will continue to work with job creators for growth there," he said. "But I'm excited to reach out and meet my new constituents in Winston and Oktibbeha counties. They've been ably represented by Congressman Gregg Harper, and my pledge is to follow his example.
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WASHINGTON - Rep.-elect Bob Gibbs was trying to get this straight: There's a public women's bathroom in the middle of a congressman's office suite? And in the building next door, not one but two House aides have made their workspace in an unused elevator shaft? A glittering week being wined, dined and oriented by the most powerful people in Washington gave way Friday to the exercise in humility that is the freshman office lottery. The most senior lawmakers get the best real estate on Capitol Hill. The freshmen get what's left: the worst office space in Congress.
BOSTON, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Accountability 2010, a newly-formed nonpartisan group dedicated to exposing politicians who sell out Main Street America to serve special interests in Washington, announced today that it is doubling its ad buy against Steve Pearce, the former Congressman trying to win his job back in New Mexico's 2nd District. People are frustrated by Washington, but we will not change the game by sending back a Washington has been," said Brooke Coleman, the group's spokesman. "This is the same Steve Pearce that presided over one of the most out-of-control, irresponsible and reckless government spending sprees in history from 2002 to 2008.
A question about health benefits, posed by Rep.-elect Andy Harris during a private orientation session for new House members, blew up Tuesday into the first mini-flap of the Maryland Republican's budding Washington career. During a briefing Monday on employee benefits for new congressmen, Harris wanted to know why he would have to wait a month for his new health insurance coverage to start.
New Jersey will send one less representative to Congress in 2012 if population trends around the country continue through the end of the decade, a new study shows. New Jersey came up just 15,187 people short of the population needed to keep its 13th seat in the House of Representatives and its delegation would shrink to 12, based on Census Bureau population estimates for 2008 analyzed last week by a Virginia consulting firm.
Last month, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services arbitrarily set limitations on state expansion of child health programs for children in families above 260 percent of the federal poverty level. The programs in question, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), offers private health insurance, at a subsidized rate, to children in families with incomes above Medicaid's strict limits. Because states use their significant purchasing power to bring down costs, SCHIP allows moderate- and low-income families to afford high quality insurance for their children on a sliding income scale. Second, the new rules contradict the SCHIP law by nullifying state flexibility. When SCHIP was created, Congress included provision for...
...New York's Congressman Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Mea...
News analysis Alan Nunnelee is receiving a promotion and a demotion at the same time as he moves from the Mississippi Senate to the U.S. Congress.
A powerful Republican lawmaker is questioning the Defense Department's hiring of former Maine Gov. John Baldacci to work on military health care reform. S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's military personnel subcommittee, raised concerns during a hearing Tuesday that Baldacci's new position, which pays $165,300 for a year, is a wasteful "duplication" of work already done by Defense Department officials.
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