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The Louisiana House delegation was divided on a plan to give President Barack Obama a limited line-item veto, and on an amendment by Rep.

Washington Mardi Gras is an occasion for breaking out the latest in political beadwear, and so Rep.

Pay no attention to...those newsletters with my name on them : Rep. Ron Paul has been denying for quite a while that he knew anything about the racist content of the 1980s newsletters that bore his name - and he is shocked, shocked! that they contained such material.

Congress to Welfare Recipients: No More Strip Clubs, Casinos, or Liquor for You Posted by Enrique on 02.08.2012 Public interest In these tough economic times when the U.S. has run up an obscene amount of debt, it's depressing how unserious our elected officials are about reducing the size of government.

Protestors against the Keystone XL pipeline dressed as referees throw red penalty flags during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan.

U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy plans to file legislation Thursday to allow investors of R. Allen Stanford to individually opt out of a federal lawsuit for one-time buyouts of up to $500,000. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in December against the Securities Investment Protection Corp.

Let's clear this up right at the top: The recent increase in gas prices is a matter of indifference... A study on how to protect Southwest Louisiana from the storm surge of hurricanes has received new life with a $400,000 federal allocation, U.S. Rep.

You know it if you read our paper about prices in Lafayette, where the average price of a gallon of gas was $3.42 earlier this week, 41 cents higher than in February 2011.

If welfare recipients want to dole out the dollar bills at a strip club, they'd better make sure it's not government money, at least if a bill in Congress becomes law.

Actuarial firm Milliman, Inc. is out with a major new study, which you can see here , conducted for the Medicaid Health Plans of America , which examines the costs shifted to states as a result of Obama's health care law over the next few years - particularly focused on the health insurer fee, a tax intended primarily to take from health insurers ... (more)

Two lawmakers have asked the Health and Human Services Department to explain financial management problems flagged in a recent audit, including violations of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which bars agencies from obligating funds without a congressional authorization or appropriation.

Republican lawmakers are accusing the Obama administration of "financial mismanagement" in the wake of an Ernst & Young audit that found "weaknesses" in the Health Department's accounting.

If welfare recipients want to dole out the dollar bills at a strip club, they'd better make sure it's not government money ... at least if a bill in Congress becomes law.

After voting on a ban Wednesday evening, the Republican-led House of Representatives sent a clear and bizarre message to Congress that they would stop welfare recipients from using their benefits at strip clubs, liquor stores, and casinos.

A little more than a month into an election year - and 13 months into the 2012 election cycle - the institution bearing the brunt of America's disdain for partisan politics is Congress.

Sen. Mary Landrieu , D-La., raised $332,000 in the last quarter of 2011 and had just under $1.1 million in the bank in advance of her bid for a fourth term in 2014.

With 395 in favor and 26 opposing, House members unanimously passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would ban welfare recipients from using their benefits at casinos, liquor stores and strip clubs.

Despite increasingly loud warnings from state governments and federal agencies, the nation's shipping waterway infrastructure which handles the bulk the United States' agricultural products -- continues to erode.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday evening sponsored by Rep.

The bill now moves to the Senate, where Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, has signalled he will not let it come to a vote.