Frist Folks Freak

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff

Dec. 14, 2005, 12 a.m.

Journalists who cover Congress have always known Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s chief of staff, Eric Ueland, to be a contemplative, mild-mannered intellectual. Until Tuesday, when, during the Tennessee Republican’s off-camera dugout with reporters, Ueland appeared to blow a gasket over a question about Frist’s sale of stock in HCA Inc., his family’s hospital company.

Stier: Detecting a Bad Breast Cancer Bill

July 1, 11:28 a.m.

Who could blame hundreds of Members of Congress for joining with a colleague and breast cancer survivor, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), in co-sponsoring legislation aimed at promoting breast cancer education? The problem, according to leading breast cancer scientists and advocacy groups, is the bill would do more harm than good. Read Full Article