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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that the Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Greenville has been certified by the federal government to become the state's only inpatient center.

U.S. Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo was honored by the Humane Society of the United States for his continued support of legislation to protect animals from suffering and abuse throughout 2012.

The National Republican Congressional Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each blasted the other side after a near party-line vote on the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, which passed the House on Thursday, 221-198. But eight House Republicans voted with the Democrats, and four House Democrats voted with the Republicans, ... (more)

The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government's cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by law.

Sen. Tom Harkin on Thursday introduced S. 985, which would rebuild the wall that had once separated commercial banking from brokerage and investment speculation.

Members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus this week penned a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, asking for more details on the privacy implications of the futuristic specs.

Republicans and much of the political press seem united in outrage over the recent revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative "tea party" groups for additional tax status scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle, in what many are calling a deliberate act of political harassment.

Rep. Adam Schiff on Monday called for any investigation into the IRS not only under President Barack Obama but stretching back to the George W. Bush administration, while he also saying Obama should fire any staffers involved in inappropriately targeting conservative groups.

Craven County's actions to support and protect the Cherry Point air station have been noticed at the Pentagon, leaders of the county's lobbying efforts say.

As the nation hurtled from one fiscal crisis to the next last year, Democrats and Republicans argued bitterly over the best solution - tax increases or spending cuts.

Nearly 12 years after 9/11, Americans are still waiting for the U.S. government to release key information about the attack that killed more than 3,000 of their countrymen.

Source: Washington Post The Republican-controlled House narrowly approved a plan Thursday to protect U.S. bondholders and Social Security recipients if the nation breaches the federal debt limit later this year.

May 9 - In a letter sent today, several reform organizations urged members of Congress to co-sponsor and support passage of the Foreign Travel Cost Disclosure Act , introduced by U.S. Rep.

A recently introduced bill aims to give fathers of permanently disabled or deceased veterans additional hiring preferences when applying for civil service jobs.

Contributed April Dillon, 4-H agent, Lincoln County; Margo Lee, Gaston County; Rosa Shanton, Carteret County; Gabrielle Venturini, Wilkes County; Sarah Kotzian, N.C. 4-H Program associate.

If you're afraid that long-past scrape with the law will keep you from landing a job, there's some... Fathers would be treated the same as mothers when it comes to receiving federal hiring preferences if they have a child who is a totally disabled veteran, under a bill introduced May 6. Sponsored by Reps.

When the Maine State House voted 111-33 this week to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the US Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the support for this bold gesture was notably bipartisan.

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Thinking they're going to deflate an intrusive government overreach into the everyday lives of American citizens, a group of House Republicans introduced a census reform bill last week that would prevent the government from conducting the research necessary to produce monthly unemployment estimates.

How Virginia's and North Carolina's members of Congress voted on major roll call votes in the past week: [Virginian - Pilot] House votes AIR TRAVEL, SEQUESTRATION Voting 361-41, the House on Friday passed a bill to end furloughs of air traffic controllers made necessary by the blind, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration that are now in ... (more)