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The $1.1 trillion spending bill that Congress passed this month bankrolls thousands of pet projects: the World Food Prize in Iowa, a farmers market in Kentucky, and a 12-mile bike path in Michigan, among many others.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., second from left, speaks a news conference on Capitol Hill with other House leaders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, Rep.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. I hoped the president would have more forcefully made this point when he addressed the nation on his strategy to both escalate and end the war in Afghanistan.

Shortly after the horrendous crime of 9/11, I underlined the abuses of our constitutional liberties in the Patriot Act as it hurtled through Congress.

In his West Point speech announcing his 30,000 troop escalation in Afghanistan, President Obama declared that he was committed to addressing the ongoing costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "openly and honestly." Though he did not get into specifics, Obama said he would "work closely with Congress to address these costs as we work to bring ...

The Great Lakes Maritime Task Force, to which the SIU is affiliated, has issued the following news release commenting on the U.S. EPA's Final Rule on air emissions regulations for large vessels operating in U.S. waters.

When some anonymous blogger somewhere, such as Pensacola Beach, harbors the suspicion the Obama White House secretly has been undermining the public option in its own health care reform initiative, we tend to dismiss that thought as just a stray synapse of paranoia.

" Governor Jim Doyle today thanked Congressman Dave Obey, Senator Herb Kohl and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for their hard work to provide significant new financial assistance to Wisconsin dairy farmers.

Seems like only yesterday the Washington establishment had proclaimed the Death of the GOP .

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a massive $636 billion military appropriations bill for 2010.

Congress has given the go-ahead for the release of federal dollars to fund needle exchange programs with the Dec.

Regarding "Levin seeks rationale for more GIs" : Rep. David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has introduced legislation to impose a war surtax.

If politics makes for strange bedfellows, then imagine the scene that unfolded in our nation's capital earlier this month, when President Barack Obama announced plans to add some 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan.

Funding the military, ensuring the jobless don't run out of benefits and maintaining the government's authority to borrow are just a few of the outstanding items as Congress rushes to finish its work in the dwindling days of this year.

The House on Thursday took a major step toward wrapping up the fiscal 2010 appropriations process when it approved, 221-202, a nearly $450 billion spending package that includes a 2 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees.

Only Obama's Signature Now Needed on Historic Measure WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Senate today passed historic legislation to end the decade long ban on implementation of the medical marijuana law Washington, D.C. voters passed in 1998.

In a classic example of how hometown interests rule on Capitol Hill when money is at stake, Texas and Wisconsin lawmakers are slugging it out over whose state takes home a disputed $3 billion defense contract.

U.S. Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., is leading the Democratic Party skepticism of the Afghanistan troop buildup, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In December, Washington is a lot like college. All-nighters, weekends in the books and long lines at Starbucks.

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY : Sen.