Jack’s Invasive Week

By Mary Ann Akers
Roll Call Staff

Jan. 9, 2006, 12 a.m.

So maybe now we know why Jack Abramoff looks like he’s been camped out at an all-you-can-eat buffet for several months. A bum knee apparently had kept him from his racquetball addiction or other exercise. But with his guilty pleas out of the way on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and Wednesday in Miami, the star of the corruption scandal had surgery

The Costs of the Cap-and-Trade Bill

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