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The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded dozens of contracts -- some for major projects in Western Pennsylvania -- through a special program the Government Accountability Office recently criticized for allowing payments to ineligible contractors.

American pipe executives and elected officials lined up to testify Tuesday in Washington, D.C., before the U.S. International Trade Commission on Chinese pipe imports.

"I will ... continue to do my due diligence to examine this strategy." Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton. "I oppose sending 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan because I am not persuaded that it is indispensable in our fight against al-Qaida." Sen.

Western Pennsylvania is home to 479 companies that provide medical devices to patients in their homes.

In prevalence to obesity, Pennsylvania currently ranks 36th among states with 32.6 percentage of the population being obese, according to America's Health Rankings .

The need for health-care reform is clear: The skyrocketing cost of health care threatens America's financial future and our ability to effectively care for our citizens.

After months of debate and entreaties from the White House and top Democrats, Rep.

Congressman Jason Altmire is a symptom of everything that has gone wrong with the health-care debate.

State representatives voiced their support Tuesday for a bill that would eliminate competitive bidding on home medical equipment.

PITTSBURGH CMS's national competitive bidding program could reduce the number of HME providers so significantly that it creates a monopoly, warned U.S. Rep.

House Democrats on the Education & Labor Committee appear to be united in favor of passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act , a bill that would outlaw employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Stupak and the bishops, the bishops and me Lance Mannion, Friday, November 13, 2009 Taking orders from the priests is exactly what JFK had to promise he wouldna t do when he ran for President.

Democrats in the House of Representatives had to go to great lengths to appease anti-choice Democrats who threatened to vote against health care reform.

In a story about why the U.S. Catholic Bishops have embraced Democratic-style universal health care, the Los Angeles Times noted that the Roman Catholic Church considers healthcare a basic human right, "a position the church has articulated since 1963, when it was included in a papal encyclical by Pope John XXIII." Indeed, healthcare is declared a ...

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For weeks, Pennsylvania's Rep. Jason Altmire refused to commit to either side on the health care reform legislation.

Rep. John Adler broke from most of his party in the U.S. House to vote against the massive overhaul of the nation's health system, saying the legislation would fail to flatten the ever-rising cost of care.

From the Politico : Dems brace for another recess By: Chris Frates and Carrie Budoff Brown November 10, 2009 The last time Congress returned home for an extended break in August, health care reform proponents lost ground that took weeks to regain - but not again, Democrats insist as they head into the Veterans Day recess.

When history called the U.S. House Saturday to give millions more Americans affordable health care -- something which other advanced nations routinely provide their citizens -- some members seized the moment and some remained blind or indifferent.

The issue of abortion threatened to derail House Democrats' health care bill Friday unless staunchly anti-abortion Democrats and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops succeeded in their effort to get strict abortion limitations into the measure.