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As a young man, "Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down," said President Obama during a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta, "but one of the things you've learned over the last four years is that there's no longer any room for excuses." During remarks at a ... (more)

Republicans use IRS scandal to tar Obamacare - PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO - Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., linked the ongoing targeting scandal at the IRS with Obamacare in the weekly Republican address on Saturday, warning that the troubled agency has too much control over the rules and regulations governing the implementation of the law.

Republicans capped the week with another attack against President Obama's health care reform, criticizing the law and its relationship with the Internal Revenue Service.

Obama is to fly by helicopter Friday about 40 miles north to Baltimore, which has had its share of tough times in the move from an industrial to service economy.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has stepped up her pitch to health law stakeholders to chip in on Obamacare outreach and enrollment efforts, administration officials confirmed Friday.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann spoke tonight at Maryland Right to Life's Third Annual Banquet just outside Baltimore and announced that a bill to repeal Obamacare will be introduced next week.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee announced today that it was postponing Thursday's vote on the White House's nominee to be Labor Secretary, Thomas Perez.

Reps. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Andy Harris, R-Md., alleged in a letter sent to Attorney General Eric Holder that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez , the White House's nominee to head up the Labor Department, withheld information from a congressional subpoena.

The 13th biennial Roll Call Clout Index will be scrutinized by congressional staff from all 50 states, all of them eager to see how their bosses' delegations stack up against the rest.

Rep. Andy Harris is more concerned about what federal agencies could do to the 1st Congressional District than what they could do for it.

Opponents of President Obama's health care law are eagerly scouring the paperwork insurers file with states, looking for early evidence of "rate shock" - rising prices ahead of full implementation of the state "exchanges" that begin next year.

WASHINGTON -- Flight delays related to furloughs of air-traffic controllers are coming to an end, but it's unclear what will happen at towers at small airports such as Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport.

Steve Schuh, a two-term Republican state delegate, is expected next week to announce intentions to run for Anne Arundel County Executive.

"The criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use.

A Republican congressman asked President Obama's top health official on Thursday to declare whether a specific morning-after pill is an abortion-causing drug.