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Marylanders on both sides of the abortion divide are steeling themselves for a historic clash over the procedure, after lawmakers voted to prohibit federal subsidies for insurance that covers it.

Julia, Annapolis: If Gov. [Robert L.] Ehrlich [Jr.] were to get re-elected, what, in your opinion, could he do different to avoid another 4 years of head-butting with the General Assembly? Thank you.

Hammad Matin, candidate for state's attorney in Charles County, left, talks with orphans court Judge Frank Lancaster as Ken Robinson and Marie Lancaster listen during Matin's recent fundraiser at a Port Tobacco tavern.

U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin breezed through Rockville on Monday, touring the Montgomery County Pre-Release Center and the Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children.

Myrna Cardin, wife of Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin , donned a T-shirt printed with "Elect to end hunger" and went to work Tuesday on an assembly line at the Maryland Food Bank in Halethorpe .

BERLIN -- In the past decade, the deaths of 880,000 African-Americans could have been prevented if they had access to good health care.

After months of plodding work by five Congressional committees and weeks of back-room bargaining by Democratic leaders, President Obama 's arms-length strategy on health care appears to be paying dividends, with the House and the Senate poised to take up legislation to insure nearly all Americans.

Members of the Maryland congressional delegation and the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development joined Friday to congratulate Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.

As Kazakhstan prepares to assume the chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, US diplomats are exerting pressure on Astana to enact promised reforms.

On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works met for the second of three days to hammer out the details of S.1733, otherwise known as the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.

On a 96-0 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kanawha Circuit Judge Irene C. Berger as a federal judge on Tuesday.

Unemployment insurance benefits will run out for an estimated 1.9 million Americans in December, and U.S. Sen.

Pakistani-Americans key to promoting ties: Haqqani Wednesday, 21 Oct, 2009 The ambassador stressed the importance of having a larger presence in the mainstream academia, media, research-intensive institutions and think tanks and various sectors of economy.

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Virginia Senator Mark Warner was appointed Chair of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee's new Task Force on Government Performance on Thursday.

Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson and congressional leaders united Monday to discuss having secured $15.6 million in federal public safety funding for the county - an announcement that was previously made in July when U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden made a stop in the county.

Federal legislation to restore the Chesapeake Bay will create funding and incentives and mandate enforcement penalties if states don't meet restoration goals, Sen.

Maryland politicians and others gathered on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis Monday to announce a new push in Congress to restore the troubled estuary by giving state and federal governments more power and funding to clean up pollution from farms, cities and suburbs.

A recently passed Energy and Water appropriates conference report to fund Chesapeake Bay projects will send $2.9 million to Ocean City for shoreline protection and restoration.

U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-Md., speaks Saturday during the 2009 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty event held at the Mountain City Elks Lodge.