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They help determine how much of our paycheck we take home, how we pay for our retirement, and perhaps soon, how we get our health care.

I expected some controversy and debate about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new recommendations about breast cancer screening, but nothing as virulent as what has occurred over the past few days.

It was a golden opportunity: right cast, right time, right place. Enlarge photo Bita Honarvar, bhonarvar@ajc.com WestSide Bank in Hiram was opened in 2006 by House Speaker Glenn Richardson and other local movers and shakers, and it is now on a list of troubled banks suffering heavy losses.

The WSJ reports in " General Electric Pursues Pot of Government Stimulus Gold " that General Electric hopes to earn about $192B in sales from government-funded economic stimulus programs in the U.S. and foreign nations.

The Preventive Services Task Force of the Department of Health and Human Services released new recommendations on Monday regarding when women should begin getting regular mammograms.

All the people who rail against Republicans in general and Sarah Palin specifically for ignoring the facts , should take a deep breath and actually read the science about breast-cancer screening.

Should doctors make health care policy? At first glance, the answer would seem obvious: of course they should.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected an independent panel's advice that breast-cancer screenings be delayed for women in their 40s in the face of a backlash by Republicans, who argued the report is a taste of things to come under a Democratic health care system.

U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey said more than $6.2 million in stimulus funding is listed on the government's Web site as going to congressional districts in Georgia that do not exist - which is absolutely true.

In the stories reported by major news organizations all across the US, there have been countless quotes that make wild, unsubstantiated charges about the motivation behind the US Preventive Services Task Force's breast screening recommendations.

Reporting from Washington - A core tenet of the healthcare overhaul President Obama is pushing through Congress is that medical care can be improved -- and costs contained -- if the country relies more on experts to determine which procedures and treatments work best.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are blasting new guidelines from a government task force that recommends against routine mammographies for women under 50, questioning whether they are tantamount to health care "rationing" in the fight against the No.

Q: How did Georgia members of the House of Representatives vote on the health care bill that passed the House? - Ben Shapiro, Atlanta A: Democratic Reps.

House Speaker Glenn Richardson called his parents in Douglas County last Sunday and told them he had taken sleeping pills and that it "was too late to do anything," according to the 911 recording of the call.

U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey conducted a town hall meeting Friday at the North Cobb Senior Center to discuss the health care bill that recently passed the House.

Our state Department of Transportation has demonstrated ineptitude in performing basic responsibilities, and in finding transportation solutions that efficiently benefit Georgia's citizens.

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia's Fourth District, is being hailed a hero for health care reform.

From the Rome News-Tribune - DRIVING HOME the lesson that the best way to keep government out of our lives is not to need to ask it for anything in the first place, the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority recently demanded that those occupying some of its dwellings not be smokers.

Rep. Joe Wilson , center, with Rep. Phil Gingrey ., right, and Rep. Dean Heller Photo:AP/Alex Brandon Our representatives in Congress are very proud of the public option included in the health care reform bill that was passed Saturday night.

We the people of America love grassroots causes, especially when it's a David-and-Goliath contest of ordinary people versus the powers that be.