Patrick Kennedy News

Reps. Patrick Kennedy and John Sullivan have finished up their alcohol-related rehab stints and are preparing to return to the Hill, according to their offices.

After a four-week course of addiction treatment, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy returned to Congress Wednesday with what he called "excellent" prospects for long-term sobriety - in large part because he sought help before he landed in the kind of trouble that has brought him notoriety in the past.

A push by some lawmakers to rein in the pay of top hospital executives died as the General Assembly approached the end of the current session.

Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Robert's decision not to seek the governor's office in 2010 creates a ripple effect affecting even Warwick's own mayor, Scott Avedisian.

Democrat Al Franken arrived in Washington on Monday content to be as mundane in the Senate as he was brazen in his previous job as a "Saturday Night Live" performer.

Rep. Patrick Kennedy said he's "feeling healthy and strong" and plans to return to Congress Tuesday after receiving treatment at an undisclosed medical facility.

Reps. Patrick Kennedy , right, and John Sullivan , left, are out of rehab and back on the job.

They're back. And it's not exactly a surprise. After 224 consecutive years, you start to notice a pattern.

Republican leadership in the last few years has at times been disappointing, to say the least.

This is a rush transcript of "Special Report With Bret Baier" from June 26, 2009.

By Jason Saine WASHINGTON - U.S. House Democrats have called up Rhode Island Representative Patrick Kennedy from rehab to help save a climate and energy bill that opponents say will will cost millions of jobs, reduce earnings for the average U.S. worker, and devastate the nation's Gross Domestic Product.

The House of Representatives Friday approved a milestone energy and climate change bill that would curb greenhouse gasses omitted by industry and agriculture.

In February, Sen. Edward Kennedy , suffering from brain cancer, rallied to return to the Senate and cast a decisive vote to help clear the way for President Obama's stimulus package.

The House last night narrowly approved a landmark overhaul of US environmental policy, handing President Obama a big political victory with a vote to dramatically limit greenhouse gases and fundamentally alter how the nation produces energy in coming decades.

I listed them earlier tonight , but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again.

Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., was poised to follow in his father's footsteps by helping House Democrats approve a major climate change and energy bill that teetered on the brink of failure.

In a sign, perhaps, of the Democrats' all-hands-on deck approach to the climate bill, Rep.

A meeting that was supposed to be held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday morning to discuss a pipeline to the proposed offshore liquefied natural gas facility in Mount Hope Bay was abruptly canceled when Rep.

The House of Representatives set a record Thursday for the most votes in one session, capping what amounted to a strange day on usually buttoned-up Capitol Hill.

Friday, 19 June 2009, 1:24 pm Press Release: Center for Public Policy Analysis Center for Public Policy Analysis A major Congressional letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding the Lao Hmong refugee crisis in Thailand and Laos is slated to be sent today by some 25 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.