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U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, is one of 32 Republican lawmakers the Democratic National Committee is lashing out against for voting against the U.S. House-approved health-care bill.

Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land announced Tuesday that Livingston County's Howell and Brighton Township branch offices will be closed and replaced with a combined PLUS office as part of her next phase of modernization.

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to hire up to 1 million temporary workers to help conduct the 2010 Census.

The Democratic National Committee launched radio ads this week blasting 32 Republican congressmen -- including four in Michigan -- for voting against the Democratic-sponsored health care overhaul plan, despite the fact their districts voted for Barack Obama for president "and his call for change" in last year's election.

As it gears up for the 2010 national headcount, the Census Bureau will be hiring as many as one million temporary workers across the country.

Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee have sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling for an immediate Congressional investigation into circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shooting.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm switched her focus from finding new money for K-12 schools to trying to restore the Promise Scholarship for 96,000 Michigan college students.

The Democratic National Committee will run radio ads this week targeting four Michigan Republicans in Congress who voted against health care reform this month but represent districts that backed President Barack Obama in last year's election.

Washington -- Freshman Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Hills, announced Saturday that he'll vote for Democratic-sponsored legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.

When Joyce Rogers got on the phone, people listened. They returned her calls. They dropped what they were doing if she wanted a meeting.

Kentucky lawmakers are at the center of a political feud over the best way to derail interstate prescription pill trafficking, including the pipeline from Florida that plays a key role in an epidemic of drug abuse in Kentucky.

H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Did Big Insurance get to them? From President Obama's address on health care to a joint session of Congress September 9, 2009 "So let me set the record straight here.

The debate over a plan to overhaul the nation's health care system that passed the House this weekend is now headed to Michigan.

Republican opposition was nearly unanimous. The 220-215 vote cleared the way for the Senate to begin debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

Washington -- Michigan's 15 House members split along party lines Saturday night on a health care bill that Rep.

Democrats unveiled an fairly weighty health care reform bill on Thursday. The more than two thousand page document has Congressmen up to their necks trying to come to some sort of compromise.

Former Senator and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft says Thursday he's backing Congressman Todd Tiahrt in the Wichita congressman's bid for the U.S. Senate.

The House followed the Senate and voted overwhelmingly today to approve an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits for workers in Michigan and other hard-hit states, sending the bill to the president for approval.

Wednesday morning the vote was delayed until early 2010. The Brentwood Republican squeezed the call in between votes on the Veteran's Small Business Protection Act, a resolution recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Air Lift and a National Veteran's History Project Week.

A North Carolina congressman dashing to catch a plane dumped his SUV at the end of a row of properly parked cars at Charlotte's airport.