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Omnibus bill commits $4 million to combat white-nose syndrome

Congress allotted $4 million on Friday to study and combat the outbreak of white-nose syndrome — a mysterious and menacing disease that is killing off North American bats by the millions.

Incandescent lightbulbs win congressional reprieve at 11th hour

Congress didn’t just agree to keep the government’s lights on through the rest of the fiscal year. It is also ensuring it has the option of doing so with high-energy-consuming incandescent 100-watt lightbulbs.

Herman Cain’s Iowa campaign says claims that the EPA says are false came from farmers

By | 11.15.11 | 1:35 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.

VIDEO: Bennet on the unpopularity of Congress

By | 11.11.11 | 3:06 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Senator Michael Bennet is perhaps never in finer form than when he rails against his own kind. Armed with charts, he gave a funny, pointed floor speech earlier this week, where he noted that the approval rating of Congress stands at about nine percent today.

Only nine members of Congress voted against affirming ‘In God We Trust’

By | 11.03.11 | 2:39 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

Congressman Justin Amash is one of nine members of Congress, and the only Republican, to vote no on a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as a national motto.

Rep. Paulsen allies with medical device industry to relax FDA oversight

By | 10.26.11 | 3:32 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

On the heels of the Minnesota Independent story last week about U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen’s cozy financial relationship with the medical device industry, the New York Times reported Tuesday that some health professionals are alarmed by Paulsen’s push to relax Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight.

Erik Paulsen gets fundraising boost from medical tech industry

By | 10.21.11 | 4:26 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

As co-chair of the House Medical Technology Caucus, U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen has battled for the medical devices industry since he took office in 2009.

U.S. House passes latest controversial anti-abortion-rights measure

By | 10.13.11 | 7:53 pm

Image by Matt MahurinThe U.S. House of Representatives approved an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday night that prohibits state health exchanges created by President Obama’s health-care reform bill from covering abortion services, with limited exceptions.

Abortion foes use live ultrasounds to highlight anti-abortion-rights legislation

By | 10.13.11 | 6:35 pm

As While House leaders, Democrats and Republicans in Congress engaged in contentious debate over an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday, anti-abortion-rights activists were at the Capitol using pregnant women and ultrasound technology to make the case that abortion should be illegal.

Sen. Harkin restarts process of repealing No Child Left Behind, response lukewarm

By | 10.12.11 | 12:52 pm

Yesterday Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) unveiled an early version of a bill to reauthorize the Early and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left Behind.

The draft legislation [bill summary] has been dubbed the Harkin-Enzi bill