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On Monday, The New York Times ran a damning story detailing how the nation’s drug makers are hiking their prices ahead of the reform laws winding their way through Congress. The very next day, some powerful House Democrats called for a closer look, asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the drug industry to verify [...]

No plans for Labor Day? The coal industry has you covered.
At no cost to the public, the heavyweights of the industry are putting on the Friends of America Rally, a one-day country music extravaganza in Southern West Virginia featuring the talents of Hank Williams Jr. and John Rich, among others.
Just good, wholesome, blue-jeans-and-Copenhagen fun, right? [...]

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So reports The Hill, indicating that the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats have struck a deal with House leaders to delay the vote until after the August recess.
In exchange for putting off a floor vote until after Labor Day, the Energy and Commerce Committee may be allowed to continue its markup of the healthcare bill this [...]

Republicans and even some moderate Democrats have blasted it this week, but a $1.2 trillion House proposal to overhaul the nation’s health care system got an enormous boost Thursday when the country’s largest doctors group threw its weight behind the legislation.
In a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), one of the bill sponsors, American Medical [...]

After a full day of heated debate, the House of Representatives has just passed the landmark Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, by a vote of 219-212.
The vote was largely along party lines, with 44 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against it and 8 Republicans supporting passage.
The bill, officially known as the American Clean Energy [...]

House lawmakers announced a deal last night on their sweeping proposal to tackle climate change, but not before the bill’s sponsors were forced to bow once more to a polluting industry that would be affected by the proposal.
Observers of this debate might recall that Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), both ardent environmentalists, [...]

Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman (Calif.) and John Dingell (Mich.) introduced legislation yesterday granting the Food and Drug Administration more powers to monitor the nation’s food producers.
The Washington Post describes the bill as lending the FDA “broad new enforcement tools, including the authority to recall tainted food, the ability to ‘quarantine’ suspect food, and the power [...]

It may not feel that way, but yes, there are other things happening today outside of the realm of Supreme Court nominations.
For instance, a coalition including veterans advocates, labor unions and an environmental group has begun running television ads blasting several House lawmakers for voting last week against controversial climate change legislation. That bill, sponsored [...]

The Obama administration’s plans are running smack into an industry buzz saw that they might not escape.