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Potter graduates from basic combat training Army Reserve Pfc. Stormy Potter has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill, Lawton.

Oh the delights of Washington D.C., the hub of intellect and history that has built the foundations of justice, political liberty and freedom for all.

For those that miss the obvious connection between Panama and DC, the $5 billion overhaul of the Big Ditch in Panama will now make it easier to ship cargo from Asia to the Gulf of Mexico, and from there into the midwest via rail lines, beating out formerly dominant west coast ports as the cheapest point of entry into the American interior.

Former President George W. Bush has settled on a modern brick-and-limestone design for his future presidential library and museum, complete with its own replica of the Oval Office and a "Texas Rose Garden" mimicking the original at the White House.

STAND UP TO THE BANKSTERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. Goldman Sachs and the other banksters are back to making record profits and on track to hand out multi-billion dollar bonuses.

Tom Coburn is a Southern Baptist deacon, a family man married to a former Miss Oklahoma, a white-coated physician back in Muskogee who has delivered more than 4,000 babies and sees patients free of charge every Monday.

But there's a darker side of the story, something that Coburn, a Marcus Welby type in ostrich-skin boots, confesses is his less honorable side.

He's a member of the United States Senate.

'I would fire us all,' Coburn says, blasting Congress, as he does every chance he gets, as a place populated by people who don't do a whole lot to make the country a better place.

President Obama is meeting with House Democrats in the Cannon Office Building and given all the applause, it might be hard to remember that the president is on Capitol Hill to twist the arms of undecided lawmakers, and push some to cast a risky vote.

NOVEMBER 05: Representative Michel Bachmann speaks during a news conference 'To Make a Healthcare 'House Call' on Washington' at the US Capitol on November 5, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Legislation dealing with the delivery and cost of health care in the United States is nearing votes in both houses of the Congress.

But as one of 435 members of the House or even the 100 in the Senate, an individual lawmaker doesn't often feel the warmth of the limelight.

President Barack Obama walks with Senior Adviser David Axelrod, left, Reggie Love, personal aide, center, and Phil Schiliro, legislative affairs director, right, Saturday, Nov.

President Barack Obama made his case Saturday for House passage of a health care overhaul and told lawmakers during a visit to Capitol Hill that it was time "to answer the call of history." Making pitches to lawmakers in person and then from the White House, Obama pushed the House to move ahead with his top domestic priority.

WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by two major endorsements, House Democratic leaders on Thursday predicted swift passage of President Barack Obama's historic health overhaul initiative.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations , the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, will hold a news conference tonight at its Capitol Hill headquarters in reaction to the attack at Fort Hood military base in Texas that left at least 12 people dead.

With the opening of the W and Jefferson Hotels in DC this summer, we've had downtown luxury DC hotels on the brain.

Company headed by former speechwriters to Clinton, vice-president Joe Biden and other leading Democrats helped pitch speeches to US audience Gordon Brown addresses a Joint Meeting of Congress.

I don't know much about economics. What I do know is that so many so-called "experts," including politicians and economists, are wrong far more often than they are right.

The next performance from the Warren Concert Association will be The Capitol Steps, from Washington D.C. The program is Friday, Nov.

On Tuesday, October 27, Wednesday October 28, Thursday October 29, and Thursday, November 5 , the Washington Area Bicyclist Association , the District Department of Transportation and the City of Alexandria will be handing out free bike lights to cyclists as part of the fall a oeGot Lights?a bicycle safety and education campaign.

WHAT: A huge caravan of bulldozers and other pieces of construction equipment will descend on Washington this Wednesday to send a message to lawmakers that they must act now to stop the job bleeding for men and women in the construction equipment industry.