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The US House of Representatives took an important step last week toward the restoration of the separation of powers that was established so that Congress would check and balance presidential warmaking.

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By Jacqueline DelPilar - Eating on $4.50 per day is a reality for many Americans who receive food stamps, and proposed budget cuts may cut that that number.

Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

A bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would require the Department of Defense to conduct an internal review of policies and prosecutions related to military members living with HIV.

There's one measure that quietly passed in the House along with Friday's massive defense bill that libertarians may like: a ban on drone strikes against U.S. citizens.

Rep. Trent Franks listens during a news conference for the launch of the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus on Capitol Hill on September 15, 2011 in Washington, DC.

More than two dozen members of Congress are eating on a budget of $4.50 a day this week, taking the SNAP challenge to live on the average budget of a food stamp recipient.

As the Republican-led House prepares to vote for deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, more than two dozen House Democrats are doing a SNAP challenge, feeding themselves for a week on the average benefit level of about $4.50 a day.

The proposed changes in the farm bill will allegedly deny access to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program to an additional two million Americans, according to an article from ThinkProgress.org on June 13. Due to the cut-backs, 26 members of Congress are participating in a SNAP Challenge this week .

Since The Guardian and The Washington Post first reported last week on widespread government surveillance of American Internet and telephone accounts, local congressional representatives Adam Schiff and Judy Chu have remained uncharacteristically mum on the controversy.

House Speaker John Boehner calls Edward Snowden a "traitor." The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, labels his brave whistleblowing "an act of treason."

House Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Barbara Lee plans to offer this week an Audit the Pentagon floor amendment to HR 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

An immigrant’s military service could be a path to legal U.S. residency, if Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., gets his way.

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed a $512.5 billion Defense bill over objections from Democrats who complained the measure ignored spending caps under sequestration.

Colleagues and friends of former congressional staffer Michael Taylor Riggs will gather Thursday for a Washington memorial to remember the longtime public health policy advocate.

Every day, in countless places around the world, women's lives and livelihoods are being threatened by forces beyond their control.

Rep. Adam Schiff Tuesday will introduce a bill to repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which Congress passed after the Sept.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the House calls for a review of state laws that criminalize behavior by people with HIV, including many laws that seem anachronistic or inappropriate given what has been learned during the last three decades about the transmission and treatment of the virus that causes AIDS.

At least five Democrats joined members of the National Cannabis Industry Association at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday to urge passage of legislation that would make marijuana legal -- and taxable.