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The House narrowly approved its version of the health care reform bill and Nevada's representatives voted down party lines on the legislation.

Both supporters and opponents of health care reform continue to flood the airwaves with new ads, after already spending hundreds of millions on television ads so far this year.

Lobbyinga 'in Washington, it's often called "issue advocacy"a 'is a game of carrots and sticks: Support our issue and we'll make life good for you.

Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty announced last week he will run for re-election next year.

Nevada Democrats Shelley Berkley and Dina Titus supported the House health care reform bill while Republican Dean Heller opposed it.

Two of Nevada's congressional representatives weighed in on the proposed House healthcare legislation Wednesday.

But it is not drawing to a close quietly, not without one last fight. The House is preparing for a weekend vote that cannot come quickly enough for Nevada's Democratic lawmakers.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept.

Nevada and California congressional delegations have introduced legislation to extend the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act and continue efforts to combat invasive species, reduce wildfire risks and protect the lake's clarity.

By now, the instant post-mortems on Election 2009 results will have been written, either overstating or understating their significance for Campaign 2010.

Legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would expand the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act and authorize $415 million over eight years to combat the worst environmental threats to the Sierra Nevada lake and surrounding basin.

Last August in this column I commented on the bombshell announcement by 46-year-old Brian Sandoval he was resigning his lifetime appointment as a federal district court judge effective September 15.

The respected Capitol Hill publication says seats of Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Dina Titus are "lean Democratic." But Rep.

Rural Nevada has benefited the most from federal highway stimulus dollars so far, receiving 63 percent of Federal Highway Administration funding for roads and other transportation projects, according to an Associated Press analysis of reporting records.

One year before the 2008 election, GOP Rep. Jon Porter seemed like a good bet for reelection.

What if Dina were governor? SHERMAN FREDERICK MORE COLUMNS The widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, sits with Sen.

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Potty Mouth Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson is catching heat from his own party after calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a "K Street whore." K Street is a traditional address for many lobbyist offices here in D.C. New Jersey Democrat Bill ...

The hearing, before the House Education and Labor Committee, came one week after the federal Occupational and Safety and Health Administration issued a scathing review of Nevada's safety program , finding the state agency is incompetent and ineffective.

Federal officials will investigate workplace safety programs across the country after the deaths of 25 workers in construction accidents in Las Vegas over an 18-month period.

It started with the attention grabbing "Die quickly" remarks, inflammatory and factually untrue, ignoring the fact that Republicans do not have the numbers to influence or block Democrat authored health care legislation, never mind that they have offered ideas.