Nita Lowey News

Nov. 23: As the nation grapples with emotional issues like health care reform, abortion and same-sex marriage, the Catholic church is flexing its religious and political muscle by asking U.S. Rep.

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.

It has been reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may attempt initial procedural steps to bring health care legislation to the Senate floor next week.

Photo by Daniel Freel/New Jersey Herald A portrait of Anna Mae Schurko from her time in the United States Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II sits on a coffee table in her Hamburg home.

I believe the American people are seeing through the Obama administration's radical agenda.

With the House having approved its version of a healthcare reform bill on Saturday, Democrats in Congress are now closer to passing major reform than they've been in decades.

During the November 7 House floor debate on the Stupak-Pitts amendment, Rep. Nita Lowey said that the amendment "puts new restrictions on women's access to abortion coverage in the private health insurance market even when they would pay premiums with their own money." PolitiFact.com corrected has rated this comment as "FALSE," here .

Pro-choice groups push back A A Nov. 10: Pro-choice groups, a critical powerbase for Democrats, are considering political warfare next year on members of Congress who voted for the abortion amendment in the health care reform bill.

WASHINGTON - The biggest overhaul of America 's medical system since Medicare neared a major advance Saturday night, as the House appeared set to pass its health reform bill with a controversial amendment to restrict coverage of abortion.

Updated: The House voted 240 to 194 in favor of a restrictive abortion amendment that signaled a shift in the political center on abortion rights.

President Obama on Friday signed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which will provide $475 million to eight states as part of the Interior and Environment Appropriations Act of 2010.

Greg Farmer is the new vice president of government affairs at San Diego-based Qualcomm and head of its Washington office.

Governor David A. Paterson today announced that New York will receive $3 million in federal funding to help protect State and local government networks from cyber security attacks and incidents.

NEW YORK a ' The United Nations General Assembly today takes up a UN human rights report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes in last winter's military offensive into Gaza.

WASHINGTON -- When it comes to hiring and paying staffers, congressional representatives from New York's upstate and Hudson Valley communities take different approaches.

The Long Island Sound will be getting a $7 million boost for environmental preservation efforts.

The breakfast, which consisted largely of coffee, was held in the otherwise elegant Speaker's Dining Room in the U.S. Capitol.

Wayne Rademaker underwent prostate cancer surgery in 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs denied him coverage, even though he'd been exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam in 1969.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. will try to solidify their support from Beltway Democrats on Tuesday.

Carolyn McCarthy is a New York Democrat serving in her seventh term in the House of Representatives.