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Two friends order identical books from Amazon. One is from California and is charged sales tax.

MARCH 16: Sen. Dianne Feinstein listens during a news conference on gay marriage on Capitol Hill on March 16, 2011 in Washington, DC.

During these times of uncertain economic stability in our country, it is interesting to take a look at those who are responsible for getting us out of this economic mess -- the 435 members of the House of Representatives and the 100 members of the U.S. Senate.

Matt Purple in The American Spectator : The bipartisan machine grinds on. The criticism most commonly leveled at Republicans over Obamacare is that they refused to find common ground with Democrats.

The U.S. Senate voted 52-44 Thursday afternoon to kill an amendment to the Farm Bill that would have eliminated federal crop insurance subsidies for tobacco.

President Obama promised more transparency for the drone program, something critics have long sought.

The most far-reaching overhaul of the nation's immigration system in a generation has emerged mostly unscathed from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I read Jerry Meral's May 19 op-ed piece in The Record, "Clarifying issues with Bay Delta Conservation Plan." He did not mention how BDCP's twin tunnel plan will use eminent domain to take away thousands of acres of Delta family farms.

Add to that list where House members stand on Gov. Jerry Brown 's divisive plan to construct a massive new water delivery system in the state.

In 2002 the first Hellfire missile was shot from a U.S.-operated drone at suspected terrorists in Yemen.

President Obama said Thursday that he is "troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable." In a major speech on national security , Obama said that the "Justice Department's investigation of national security leaks offers a recent example of the challenges involved in ... (more)

On Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., introduced an amendment to the 2013 Farm Bill to drop the eight USDA tobacco insurance programs.

To commemorate Harvey Milk Day, TIME republishes a snippet of its coverage on the remembrance of his death.

The controversial immigration reform bill is finally headed to the Senate floor.

Yesterday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to authorize the arming of some rebels in Syria.

The camaraderie of the four leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence panels - Rogers, Rep.

The VA Medical Center is looking to form a public-private partnership to fund a $500 million hospital and research facility in Mission Bay.

Movement expected about the same. Trading seeded slow, others moderate. Prices seedless 35-60 counts lower, others generally unchanged.

As President Obama gears up for a new push to close GuantA namo Bay, lawmakers from both parties are skeptical the president will be successful in persuading Congress to shutter the facility.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont confers with Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California as the Senate Judiciary Committee assembled to work on a landmark immigration bill.