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The bill now goes to the Senate, where supporters say it has a good chance to pass, given its bipartisan support in the House.

President Barack Obama's plan to tell an international conference on climate change that the U.S. will aid efforts to control global warming comes as prospects dim for turning that commitment into law, members of New York's congressional delegation say.

As the war on drugs moves closer to home and a new administration presents new ideas, policymakers in Washington are taking notice of 30 years' worth of ineffectual drug policy and beginning to think about different ways of addressing the northward flow of narcotics.

Articles 01:43 12/10/2009 How could Israel gain from Wolfowitz's championing of North Korean refugees? By Maidhc O Cathail Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the Iraq War, now wants the United States to help refugees.

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009 House Meets At... 9:00 a.m.: Morning Hour 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. "One Minutes" Motion to Go to Conference on H.R. 3288 - Department of ...

Reporting from Mexico City - A small fraction of U.S. aid for Mexico's drug war under the so-called Merida Initiative has been delivered because of red tape and the time needed to order helicopters and other equipment, a U.S. government report concluded Thursday.

Some Democrats in New York's congressional delegation are willing to give President Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt on the military escalation in Afghanistan he plans to announce Tuesday night.

Ever isolated by the United States and its European allies, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is increasingly forging ties in Latin America, and not just with fervently anti-American leaders such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Re the series of Tappan Zee Bridge/Interstate 287 Project open houses in Westchester and Rockland counties last week: The only thing missing from these traveling Tappan Zee mega-bridge road shows is a carnival barker standing outside.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has moved on to Bolivia and later today heads to Venezuela, as part of his whirlwind trip to Latin America this week.

It was supposed to be an aggressive agenda -- an agenda of change, some promised -- intended to right the economy, overhaul health care and reform immigration policy.

Iran's leader got a welcoming bear hug from the Brazilian president, who urged Western nations to drop threats of punishment over the Iranian nuclear program and instead negotiate a fair solution.

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia Borzou Daragahi, and Beirut -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives today in Brazil on a Latin American and African tour amid U.S. and domestic criticism that, by playing host, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is squandering his newfound global influence.

Late one August night in 1998, as Charles Schumer was driving back to his hotel after a dozen campaign events in western New York, he spotted a minor league baseball stadium.

Rep. Eliot Engel is trying again to ban smoking near federal buildings. The New York Democrat unsuccessfully introduced a bill during the last Congress to ban smoking within 25 feet of any federal buildinga TMs entrances, exits, windows that can be opened and ventilation intakes.

How New York state would fare under proposed health care reform remains an open question, but there's no doubt that state government and, to some extent, county governments would share in the cost of expanding health coverage to more Americans.

Happy Friday! A New York lawmaker is trying -- yet again -- to ban smoking within 25 feet of federal buildings.

WASHINGTON - Rob Astorino, the Republican who will succeed Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano in January, isn't waiting to let members of Congress know that voter dissatisfaction with high taxes helped elect him this month.

The rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center's Josh Sugarmann has, predictably, joined his anti-gun cohorts in exploiting the Ft.

Easter Seals New York, the leading provider of autism services nationally, honored Congressional expert on autism and disabilities, Representative Eliot Engel, last night at the 2009 Easter Seals New York Annual Meeting in Westchester, New York.