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Catfish

The U.S. Wants to Inspect Your Catfish, Twice

Niraj Chokshi | May 21, 2013
The farm bill has a reputation, and it’s not a good one.
Dave Camp and John Boehner

Debt-Ceiling Fight May Flare This Week

Billy House and George E. Condon Jr. and Nancy Cook and Amy Harder and Fawn Johnson and Margot Sanger-Katz and and Sara Sorcher contributed | May 5, 2013
House Republicans will push action on a bill signaling no retreat from their demand for spending cuts as a condition to any ceiling hike.
Hillary Clinton

Abortion Rights Activists Looking to Hillary Clinton As 2016 Champion

Elahe Izadi and Beth Reinhard | May 3, 2013
Abortion rights activists fuming over President Obama’s opposition to making emergency contraception accessible to women of all ages could have an ally campaigning for the Oval Office in 2016: Hillary Clinton.
Reconcile Restaurant

The Cajun Comeback

Adam B. Kushner | May 2, 2013
Eight years after Katrina, New Orleans is finding new ways to address old problems. Scenes from a turnaround. 
Kathleen Sebelius

After the Obama Administration's Morning-After Pill Decision

Margot Sanger-Katz | May 2, 2013
President Obama has made a series of speeches in recent weeks, delighting scientists who work on controversial areas of research and advocates for reproductive and abortion rights.
Lamar Smith

Meet the Yahoo Caucus

Norm Ornstein | May 1, 2013
Congress is filled with informal caucuses, from the Black Caucus to the Wine Caucus. I have a new one to propose, which might be among the largest: the Yahoo Caucus.
D_Sebelius

The 'Obamacare' Rollout's 'Glitches and Bumps' Won't Doom Health Reform

Margot Sanger-Katz | April 30, 2013
Medicare Part D had them, too.
Max Baucus

What Will Max Baucus Do With His New Political Freedom?

Nancy Cook and Stacy Kaper and Chris Frates and Rebecca Kaplan contributed | April 23, 2013
The Montana senator's retirement could affect legislation on guns, taxes, immigration, and the debt ceiling. If only he'll agree with his fellow Democrats.
Brandielee Marendo

No, Oncologists Are Not Going Broke

Margot Sanger-Katz | April 18, 2013
Cancer doctors say the sequester forces them to turn away dying patients. Nonsense.
Clay Alspach

Clay Alspach, Chief Majority Health Counsel

Margot Sanger-Katz | April 17, 2013
When two veteran committee health staffers departed this year, Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., picked one of his own to promote. Clay Alspach, 35, has worked for the committee, or its members, for much of his professional life.
Bottles of drugs

Health Care Interests Have Much to Monitor

Margot Sanger-Katz | April 17, 2013
Because entitlement reform could touch nearly every medical lobby, all will keep eyes and ears on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s doings.
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A Polarized Committee Reflects a Gridlocked Congress

Amy Harder | April 17, 2013
Shortly after Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in December 2010, he invited all the former committee chairmen and their wives to dinner at Carmine’s in downtown Washington.
Pills move through a precision weighing machine

No Big Bills, But Plenty of Action on Health Care

Margot Sanger-Katz | April 17, 2013
The Energy and Commerce Committee won’t be passing any blockbuster health care bills this session—much as some GOP members would still love to repeal the Affordable Care Act—but several smaller measures on the agenda are likely to make it to the House floor.
Rep. Henry Waxman

The ‘Liberal Bulldog’ Takes on His Biggest Challenge

Coral Davenport | April 16, 2013
Rep. Henry Waxman, the California liberal who has spent decades battling the tobacco, coal, and pharmaceutical industries, is taking on what appears to be the most insurmountable challenge of his long career.
Patty Murray

Slow-Motion Gun Battle Plays Out in Senate

Billy House | April 14, 2013
Lawmakers will stage some slow-going drama this week as the Senate proceeds in its deliberations on gun-control legislation with a series of votes on amendments—many of them likely to usher in their own mini-floor fights, or even filibusters.
Women's Medical Society

Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Major News Story

Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic | April 12, 2013
The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It just is insanely newsworthy.

On the Move

Christopher Snow Hopkins and Mike Magner | February 21, 2013
Angela Rye launches a new lobby shop, Impact Strategies. Domingo Herraiz is Motorola's new VP of North American government affairs. Campaign insider Tharon Johnson joins McKenna Long & Aldridge.
Mitt Romney

What Would President Romney Do?

Josh Kraushaar | February 21, 2013
For those convinced that President Obama doesn’t deserve any blame for the fiscal gridlock, let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that Mitt Romney was elected president and was dealing with the same Congress that Obama has faced so much trouble with in getting legislation to avert sequestration and myriad fiscal emergencies. Would a President Romney be confronting the same crisis?
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Which States Sent the Most Liberal Members to Congress?

February 21, 2013
The vast majority of the most-liberal state delegations in the House of Representatives are clustered in the Northeast and out West, according to 2012 vote rankings compiled by National Journal.
Obama Gives the 2013 State of the Union

Cliffs Notes on Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address

Michael Catalini | February 12, 2013
The first State of the Union address since President Obama's second inauguration focused overwhelmingly on domestic policy. He devoted roughly one paragraph each to Afghanistan, North Korea--which reportedly tested a nuclear weapon on Monday--and Iran. For comparison's sake, that's the roughly the same amount of time he spent on cybersecurity in the address.
Obama State of the Union 2012

Missed Opportunity? Obama May Avoid Spending-Cut Debate in Speech

Nancy Cook | February 12, 2013
When President Obama takes to the podium Tuesday night for the State of the Union, he’s expected to give scant attention to one of the most pressing issues facing Washington: the upcoming $85 billion in spending cuts.
Cantor With Kids

Using People as Props: Cantor Channels Clinton and Reagan

Ron Fournier | February 5, 2013
As Washington becomes increasingly staged-managed, 'real people' land roles in political scripts.

Harkin's Departure Jolts Hawkeye State Politics

Alex Brown | February 1, 2013
Take one long, last look at Iowa. Two years from now, the state's long-static political landscape could be nearly unrecognizable. Plenty of dominoes have yet to fall following Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin's decision to retire next year, but when they do, they'll fall fast -- and the effects will likel...
Pittsburgh

Health Care: Great for the Economy Today, Terrible Later

Margot Sanger-Katz | January 31, 2013
Hospitals like Pittsburgh’s UPMC created enough jobs to end the recession. If they keep it up, they’ll wreck the economy.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden Announce Gun Control Proposals

Full Text: President Obama and Joe Biden's Statements on Gun Violence Proposals

January 16, 2013
The White House released the following transcript of the statements President Obama and Vice President Biden made on the gun control proposals announced Wednesday.
Retreat

Who Pays for Congress’s Big-Money Party Retreats?

Shane Goldmacher | January 14, 2013
It boils down to this catch-22: Either the special interests pay, or you do.
Hillary Clinton

A Blood Clot in Hillary Clinton's Brain: How It Can Turn Out Just Fine

Richard C. Senelick for The Atlantic | January 1, 2013
Yesterday evening the U.S. Secretary of State was hospitalized in New York City for treatment and monitoring of a thrombosis in a cerebral vein. Her doctors expect a full recovery. What that means.

In the Hospital with a Blood Clot, Hillary Clinton Is Not In Good Health

Adam Clark Estes - The Atlantic Wire | December 31, 2012
Secretary of State and wouldn't be New York City mayor Hillary Clinton is back in the hospital, after doctors discovered a blood clot related to the concussion she suffered earlier this month. Clinton was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday night, so that her treatment team could monitor how she handles the anti-coagulant medication that's been prescribed to deal with the clot. (Read the State Department's full statement on her condition here.)
Empty casket

The (Fiscal) Case for Death

Margot Sanger-Katz | June 21, 2012
Over the long run, effective preventive health policy could cost the federal government more than it saves.
Pills move through a precision weighing machine

Lipitor Fights Back

Margot Sanger-Katz | December 1, 2011
Pfizer’s strategy to fend off competition from generics may be paving a path for the pharmaceutical industry.

POLITICS - As Bush Does Balancing Act, His Ratings Keep Slipping

March 15, 2003
As war with Iraq increasingly appears inevit-
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