Reid and GOP in a Showdown

By Steven T. Dennis and John Stanton
Roll Call Staff

Feb. 6, 2008, 12 a.m.

Senate Republicans scrambled Tuesday to avoid the ire of AARP and veterans, offering to support payments to 20 million low- income seniors and 250,000 disabled vets left out of the House stimulus package, while hoping to hold the line against unemployment insurance, energy tax breaks and other goodies backed by Senate Democrats and the Finance Committee.

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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