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Whitehouse on whether health care bill is too long: 'It has fewer words than a Harry Potter novel!' Opponents of health care reform have argued that the health care bill is simply too big and complicated to be understood, and thus shouldn't be passed.

Unemployment numbers were down today, but congressional Democrats are still scraping for job creation ideas, including using repaid Wall Street bailout funds to pay for a two-part jobs bill House leaders hope to bring to the floor before the end of the year.

Sometimes Senate debate on the Democratic health care reform bill isn't all that serious, as Sen.

Senate Democrats on Friday beat back Republican efforts to strip out two major provisions of their health care bill that would make deep cuts in payments to private Medicare Advantage plans and create a new long-term-care insurance program.

Lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced bills this week to push the deadline to apply for unemployment benefits to as far back as 2011.

When Ben Bernanke sits before the the Senate Banking Committee, ita ll be far from the lovefest that greeted every Alan Greenspan renomination.

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson on Tuesday sailed through the first leg of her confirmation as a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge.

Beginning Tuesday, the first of thousands of unemployed Rhode Islanders will exhaust a federal stimulus subsidy that has helped them afford temporary health insurance.

Of course, the reason conservative members of the Democratic Caucus are able to wield such power is the anti-democratic, not constitutionally-mandated filibuster, which requires a super-majority of 60 Senators to pass legislation.

Getting - on page' with Obama A A Nov. 25: A Morning Meeting panel discusses the health care article that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is pushing his colleagues to read during the holiday.

Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin on Sunday disputed key details of Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's account of their 2007 communication about whether the congressman should take Communion, given his support for abortion rights.

AT GROUND BREAKING: Andrew Sholes, left, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rabbi Amy Levin and Temple Torat Yisrael president Susan Smoller chat prior to Sundays' groundbreaking ceremony.

Friday, 20 November 2009, 4:36 pm Column: Jason Leopold A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel conducted for the Bush administration will be released at the end of the month, Attorney General Eric Holder said ...

" After two months of talks, Deepwater Wind LLC and National Grid are still unable to agree upon a contract for the utility to purchase electricity from the developer's offshore wind farm.

From a truly insincere Politico article : Added Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse : "For the first time, what the anti-choice advocates are saying is that [the federal] dollar now has to control ... what these private-sector companies can offer.

Current laws addressing cyber crime aren't adequate to address growing attacks on the government and businesses, a representative of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration said Tuesday.

United States Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse met with LGBT Rhode Islanders on Nov. 12 to discuss gay rights issues.

The New York Times and The Washington Post both reported on former president Bill Clinton's pep talk with Senate Democrats on Tuesday.

A message is written on the back of a car outside the visitation for Sgt. Amy Krueger at Kiel High School in Kiel, Wis., onA Friday.

This July photo from the Arabic-language Web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the Sept.