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Washington --- Georgia's U.S. senators on Tuesday voted against a measure that sought to block an inventory of offshore oil and gas reserves in sensitive coastal areas, helping defeat an [...]

Washington --- Immigrants made up one-quarter of Americans who lacked health insurance in 2003, up from one-fifth a decade earlier, the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute said Monday. Among all [...]

Washington --- A new chapter in the Social Security debate opened Thursday as a House committee began a series of hearings that could lead to a sweeping retirement reorganization beyond [...]

Washington --- The debate over Social Security's future moves to Congress today as a Senate committee hears alternatives for overhauling the program's finances. The Senate Finance Committee hearing opens what [...]

Washington --- Efforts to pave the way for some illegal immigrants to work their way to citizenship failed in the Senate on a procedural vote Tuesday, but supporters of the [...]

Washington --- How deeply to cut federal programs for the poor will be one of the key issues lawmakers will begin deciding this week as they return to the Capitol. [...]

Just days into his second term, President Bush may be entering the fight of his political life as he attempts to reshape the Social Security program in the face of [...]

Washington --- President Bush held a town-hall style 'conversation' Tuesday with people who support his effort to create private Social Security retirement accounts. But his real audience was the lawmakers [...]

Washington --- The cost of health care is still rising several times faster than inflation, but in 2003 --- for the first time in seven years --- the rate of [...]

Washington --- Today's elderly are healthier, wealthier, better educated --- and fatter --- than previous generations, according to a report released Thursday by the federal National Institute on Aging. The [...]

Washington --- President Bush's request for an additional $7.1 billion in response to Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne is a good start but may not be enough, Florida lawmakers said Tuesday. [...]

Washington --- The Bush administration wants Medicare patients to question their doctors about alternative medicines that may be cheaper than those they are now taking. Beginning Wednesday, Medicare began offering [...]

Washington --- Medicare payment cuts proposed by the Bush administration could reduce access to community-based cancer care, forcing patients to be treated at overburdened hospitals, a doctors group said Wednesday. [...]

Washington --- Rep. Porter Goss 'knows the CIA inside and out,' President Bush said Tuesday. In fact, heading the spy agency would be the culmination of Goss' career in and [...]

Washington --- Under fire from congressional and public critics, Bush administration officials said Thursday more money is being spent now than ever before on the nation's parks. 'We have more [...]

Washington --- A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would double research spending on Alzheimer's disease, capitalizing on heightened interest in fighting the illness since the death of [...]

Washington --- To hear Bush administration officials tell it, competition among Medicare-approved discount drug cards is causing prescription prices to plummet. Critics say the process of choosing a card is [...]

Washington --- Prescription drug prices increased three to four times faster than the rate of inflation last year, according to two studies released Tuesday. 'This is market failure when you [...]

Washington --- The new Medicare-approved prescription drug discount cards offer prices substantially below what non-beneficiaries pay for medicines, the government said Wednesday. 'You could see prices come down further,' Dr. [...]

Washington --- Boomers and their parents control more than half of America's consumer economy, but find themselves facing more complex financial decisions with less time for research than ever before. [...]

Washington --- Nearly half of the 44 million Americans without health insurance are employed, and they receive substantially less care than those with insurance, a report released Wednesday said. The [...]

Washington --- The oceans lapping America's shores are in trouble from pollution, population encroachment and environmental mismanagement --- and billions of dollars would have to be spent each year to [...]

Portland, Maine --- Jane Tuttle, 81, quit driving the day she discovered she couldn't feel the difference between the gas and brake pedals because of a medical condition that causes [...]

Portland, Maine --- When Esther Safford's husband of 44 years died, she knew she was in trouble. Safford, 73, had never learned to drive. She shops at least once a [...]

Washington --- The price of the prescription drugs most commonly used by the elderly increased more than three times the rate of inflation last year, according to a study released [...]

Washington --- Bob Graham is expected to formally announce his presidential candidacy today, running on a platform that proposes to reduce payroll taxes for every working American. The proposal by [...]

Washington --- Two-thirds of all older Americans are likely to become disabled for some period, and the government is ill prepared to help them maintain their independence, according to a [...]

Washington --- Despite opposition from the judiciary and lawyers, President Bush is expected to sign a bill that dramatically reduces federal judges' authority to lower some sentences. The controversial sentencing [...]

Washington --- They are the Iraqi war zone's answer to a question asked on the first night of Passover in Jewish homes for thousands of years: 'What makes this night [...]

Washington --- Updating their projections, federal officials forecast Monday that Social Security will stay solvent a year longer than expected, but Medicare will go belly-up four years earlier than they [...]

Washington --- President Bush's plan to overhaul Medicare by giving more generous benefits to those who join private health plans received a tepid response from congressional leaders Tuesday. Democrats claimed [...]

Washington --- President Bush will propose offering different levels of prescription drug coverage in his plan for restructuring Medicare, administration officials said Monday. Bush is expected to outline his proposal, [...]

Washington --- NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe on Thursday defended his agency's handling of e-mails from engineers predicting possible catastrophic scenarios facing the space shuttle Columbia. O'Keefe told the House Science [...]

Bucharest, Romania --- About all I knew about this nation in Eastern Europe: It had been a communist country; it had undergone a violent revolution in which its dictator had [...]

Washington --- Skeptical lawmakers expressed doubts Wednesday whether a special NASA-appointed panel will be independent enough to determine the cause of the Columbia disaster. The concerns were raised as NASA [...]

Washington --- The Bush administration and key members of Congress indicated a willingness Monday to spend more money on the space shuttle program after the loss of the Columbia and [...]

Washington --- President Bush on Tuesday proposed overhauling Medicare by giving participants more choices in health care and access to less expensive prescription drugs, but his administration has not settled [...]

Washington --- President Bush called for a sweeping overhaul of the Medicare program that would provide the elderly with prescription drug coverage through managed care. 'Medicare is the binding commitment [...]

Washington --- On the verge of launching a presidential campaign, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) announced Thursday that he will undergo heart surgery next month and postpone a final decision about [...]

Washington --- On the verge of launching a presidential campaign, Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) announced Thursday that he will undergo heart surgery next month and postpone a final decision about [...]

Washington --- Managed care groups warned Thursday that roughly 670,000 Medicare beneficiaries could see their coverage disrupted by next January if Congress does not increase payments. Most of those people [...]

Washington --- The leaders of the House and Senate intelligence panels unveiled a series of recommendations Wednesday to overhaul the nation's intelligence agencies, saying that without the changes, the country [...]

Washington --- The delicate coral reefs around the Florida Keys have become the first internationally protected nautical zone in the United States and only the fifth worldwide. The designation, by [...]

Washington --- Human growth hormones commonly marketed as 'anti-aging' compounds have potentially harmful side effects, medical researchers announced Tuesday. The compounds 'are not ready for prime time,' said Dr. Marc [...]

Washington --- Independent groups are pouring millions of dollars into efforts to sway older voters, because aging baby boomers and their parents could determine which party controls Congress next year. [...]

Washington --- The American intelligence community had indications before last Sept. 11 that airliners could be used as weapons against targets inside the United States. But no evidence has been [...]