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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.There's talk the Kennedy political bloodlines are running thin.

Representative Louise Slaughter has a consistent record advocating abortion rights.

The wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after police said she hit a parked car in northern Virginia.

Can Patrick Kennedy be one, even though he supports abortion rights and provisions for public funding for some? The Roman Catholic bishop of Providence in Rhode Island, where Kennedy is a U.S. representative, says a categorical "no". Bishop Thomas J. Full Article at Baxter Bulletin Twitter There are no results for this module.

U.S. Rep. David R. Obey, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, toured four major research institutions in the city's Jewelry District on Friday along with Rep.

Edward M. Kennedy warned the state's U.S. Senate candidates yesterday not to apply an abortion "litmus test" that might stall the universal health care his father devoted much of his career to passing.

If the opponents of health reform had all got together as a shadowy Dan Brownish cabal in the men's room at Union Station six months ago and come up with a ghoulish plot to derail the effort without leaving any fingerprints, they couldn't have done a better job.

WHEN IT comes to America's most famous Catholic family, no true compass guides the Roman Catholic Church.

An eagle feather warbonnet made by a Fort Berthold Reservation resident was presented last week to Rep.

In its efforts to influence health care reform and oppose same-sex marriage, the Catholic Church is wading more deeply into politics than it has in recent memory, observers say.

I'm tired of people apologizing. The financial wizards bring the whole world to its knees while pocketing enough cash to make them wealthier than any of us can imagine.

CHURCH Church: DC gay marriage bill threatens programs WASHINGTON The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington says it won't continue social service programs it runs for the District unless a proposed same-sex marriage law is changed.

Thomas Tobin, the Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, has made a career out of putting politicians in his crosshairs, but his latest battle over abortion threatens to spiritually exile Rep.

I went to the Corner looking for representative attacks on Obama for failing to call Hasan a terrorist yesterday, but instead I tripped across one poster crowingA over a rather harsh public rebuke from a Rhode Island bishop to Patrick Kennedy, congressman, son of Ted, abortion rights supporter.

SHOOTER Obama: No religion justifies Fort Hood shootings FORT HOOD, Texas President Barack Obama says the alleged gunman's Muslim religion shouldn't be blamed for the killing of 13 men and women at Fort Hood, because no faith justifies such "murderous" acts.

As former President Bill Clinton warned Senate Democrats of the political dangers of failing to pass an overhaul of the health-care system, party leaders set a goal of starting debate on a Senate bill next week and struggled to close rifts over abortion and other contentious issues.

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy says recent comments by Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop questioning the congressman's faith because of his stance on abortion and health care reform were "very disconcerting." Kennedy, a Catholic and congressman from Rhode Island, had planned to meet Thursday with Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin to discuss a simmering ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, left, and Rep. George Miller exult at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday night.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, left, and Rep. George Miller exult at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Saturday night.

As Democrats savored the narrow passage of their historic heath care overhaul in the House of Representatives, attention Sunday turned to the deeply-divided U.S. Senate.