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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved $1.71 million for a new air traffic control complex along with $11.5 million for new missile facilities at Minot Air Force Base, said Rep.

The repercussions of the financial crisis will be felt for years in the retirement accounts of millions of Americans.

The rumored race for the US Senate seat up for grabs in North Dakota next year between incumbant Senator Byron Dorgan and Governor John Hoeven will remain just that a rumor until at least September.

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Vandenberg Air Force Base officials launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration test assembly from North Vandenberg Monday.

The chief executive officer of Ohio-based American Electric Power, one of the nation's largest power generators, said Monday in North Dakota that Americans should expect a mixture of energy sources, including coal, nuclear, solar and wind, in the coming decades.

Gov. John Hoeven says he is likely to decide by early September whether he will run for the U.S. Senate.

IT INCLUDES A SO-CALLED ``CAP-AND-TRADE'' PROVISION. POMEROY SAYS IT'S AIMED AT LIMITING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

Congressman Earl Pomeroy says he`s against a bill in Congress to control greenhouse gas emissions.

The US House of Representatives Friday approved a procedural motion to sweeping climate and energy legislation by such a narrow margin that it throws some doubt on supporters' ability to attract enough support to get the bill approved.

" A deal brokered by U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson appears to have given a global warming bill a fighting chance to pass the House today.

Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment:... Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: FATHER-SON KILLINGS 2 men convicted in father-son killings Grand Forks , N.D. Jurors have convicted two men in the killings of a Grand Forks father and son eight years ago.

Gary Emineth re-elected as ND GOP chairman Eds: APNewsNow. Bismarck , N.D. North Dakota 's newly re-elected state Republican chairman is hoping the party will have candidates for the U.S. Senate and House by early September.

Two senators have reintroduced legislation that would provide tax breaks to those with non-qualified lifetime annuities.

Latest North Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: FLOOD MEETINGS ND congressional delegation examine flood issues Valley City , N.D. North Dakota Sens.

Byron Dorgan _a> and Ken4 Conrad _a> and Congressman Earl Pomeroy Jamestown . They're working to outline what happened during this spring's historic flooding, the status of the recover9 and ho7 to minimize future flooding threats.

Congress is wrestling with reforming the nationa s health care system. Prevention is one of the keys to solving Americaa s growing epidemics of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

House Democrats are considering options such as raising the payroll tax that funds Medicare and slapping a new "surtax" on wealthier households to help pay for a $1 trillion-plus healthcare overhaul bill, according to a document obtained by CongressDaily .

Over the past week, health care reform advocates and progressive bloggers have expressed outrage over the announcement by conservative-leaning Democrats in Congress -- including Southern lawmakers -- opposing President Obama's proposal for a public insurance option.

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner want Congress to pass legislation ending the tax on personal use of employer-provided cell phones.

The findings of a new report released today indicate that the decline in the stock market in the last six months of 2008 dramatically worsened the retirement outlook for middle-class Americans.