Senate Questions 'Egregious' Price Hikes For Specialty Medicines
Some companies have bought the patents for old drugs, then abruptly upped the prices — from $13 per pill to $750 in one case. Irate senators call it price gouging.
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Is This Congressman's 'Oversight' An Effort To Hobble Climate Science?
Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas is formally investigating a recent study on global warming. Smith calls the timing of the study's publication "suspicious," but many scientists call his tactics "bullying."
How Obama Hopes To Achieve U.S. Climate Goals
Past U.S. leaders tried to commit the nation via treaty to steep cutbacks in greenhouse gases. But without congressional support, those pledges fizzled. President Obama is trying regulation, instead.
Congress Strikes Deal On 5-Year Transportation Bill
For the first time in a decade, congressional leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement on a long-term bill to fix, maintain and expand the nation's roads, bridges, rails and mass transit.
Congressional LGBT Caucus Launches Task Force On Transgender Equality
The new group of House members was announced during Trans Awareness Week. The LGBT caucus also held the first-ever congressional forum on violence against trans people.
Friends, Family Say A Final Goodbye To Howard Coble
Hundreds of friends, family, and well-wishers gathered in Greensboro Tuesday to say goodbye to longtime 6th District Congressman Howard Coble.
Coble died last week at 84.
Former Congressman Howard Coble Dies
The longest serving Republican U.S. House member from North Carolina has died. Congressman Howard Coble passed away on Tuesday night.
Boehner's Budget Deal Caps Extraordinary Execution Of An Exit Strategy
By voluntarily renouncing his office, Boehner freed himself to do what had to be done. To paraphrase Shakespeare's epitaph for another warrior, nothing in his career became him like the leaving it.
White House, Congress Nearing 2-Year Budget Deal
The White House and congressional leaders are hoping to clinch as early as Monday a two-year budget deal that sets spending limits for the Pentagon and domestic programs.
LA Congressman Loses Bet, Sings 'Meet The Mets'
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., lost a bet with New York Democrat Steve Israel when the Mets defeated the Dodgers in the Major League Baseball playoffs. The result is pretty amazin'.