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The list is out -- and it's a long one. The 400 guests for the India state dinner include an assortment of lawmakers, entertainers, business people, and other government officials, many with connections to India.

Measure would cost power plant millions. The University of Missouri is opposing federal legislation that would put caps on its greenhouse gas emissions because those limits would cost millions, UM System President Gary Forsee said in a letter to federal lawmakers.

Left to right: Sen. Kit Bond, Chinese Ambassador Zhou, Dick Fleming, Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Dan Mehan, and London Export's Stephen Perry at the January 26th, 2009 news conference announcing the formation of the Midwest-China Hub Commission.

The U.S. Senate wona t try to pass a bill limiting U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for months, clouding the prospects for final legislation as the Obama administration focuses on health care and the economy.

As lawmakers tried to work out the details of holding foreign contractors accountable for accidental deaths of U.S. service members in Iraq, they found themselves trying to answer a bigger question.

More than six years ago, Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona was serving in Iraq when he was killed after his Humvee was struck by a supply truck driven by an employee of a Defense Department contractor.

Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez still suffers from injuries he began experiencing in Iraq three years ago - injuries caused not by bombs or guns but by a military-administered smallpox vaccine he got before he left the United States.

A Senate oversight panel launched an investigation Thursday into the Pentagon's use of retired admirals and generals as paid advisers, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Defense Department officials also are reviewing the practice.

A bill introduced in the Senate on Wednesday could see military contractors in Iraq face justice in US courts in cases involving death, rape or serious injury.

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 11/18/2009 6:44:00 PM Senator Claire McCaskill is expected to stand down from her proposed amendment mandating both EchoStar and DirecTV deliver local TV station signals to all 210 Nielsen markets within three years, according to sources.

The Senate Commerce Committee wasted no time Thursday passing the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act , its version of the satellite reauthorization bill.

Former state Rep. Judy Baker, D-Columbia, is to be sworn in Monday in Kansas City as regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Army Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona was killed in Iraq on the very day he was going home.

Stung by constituents' concerns about their vanishing or vulnerable jobs, congressional leaders launched a strong push Tuesday to pass a "jobs creation" package by the end of this year.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 16 Nov 2009 - 1:00 PST "Women Democrats have taken an awful lot of hits for the team lately," such as voting for President Obama instead of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2008 and allowing the Obama administration to place the Paycheck ...

Embattled Defense Contract Audit Agency Director April Stephenson has been removed from her post, the Defense Department announced.

As abortion-rights supporters stepped up their battle to roll back restrictions included in the House healthcare bill passed Saturday night, two Democratic senators predicted the Senate will write a significantly different bill.

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key piece of President Barack Obama's agenda.

Is money from health industries influencing Missouri representatives in the vote for health care reform? It's been sixty years its been since President Harry Truman became the first president to attempt to reform the health care system.

Groups from across the Show-Me State are set to discuss climate change Wednesday night in Washington.