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With the passing of James Watts, the Tri-Cities has lost an often under-appreciated member of this community. If ever there was a Tri-Citian of the Year who never was awarded that honor, Jim had to be a contender.
Rescission Package. While the White House is still discussing sending a rescission package to Congress, it is now likely that the package wouldn't include more than $25 billion in spending reductions, a much smaller amount than the original $60 billion suggested.
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2018 would apply to facilities that manufacture or process cosmetic products but would exempt most retailers, salons and research and testing facilities. The Senate committee, led by Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray , indicated in a The amendment would require manufacturers and distributors to report "serious adverse events" - including death, hospitalization, persistent disability, or significant disfigurement - to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within 15 days.
The law would allow waitstaff tips to be shared with cooks and other back-of-the-house restaurant workers, but prevents owners from getting a cut. It also allocates some smaller amounts: the money customers leave behind as tips in restaurants, nail salons, and other businesses.
The U.S. Capitol is seen Dec. 22, 2017, in the early morning in Washington. Top-level Capitol Hill talks on a massive $1.3 trillion catchall spending bill are reaching a critical stage as negotiators confront immigration issues, abortion-related controversies, and a battle over a massive rail project that pits President Donald Trump against his most powerful Democratic adversary.
In this Feb. 6, 2018, file photo, dawn breaks over the Capitol in Washington. The once bipartisan drive to curb increases in health care premiums has devolved into a partisan struggle with escalating demands by each side.
In this Feb. 6, 2018 photo, dawn breaks over the Capitol in Washington. Money's not really the holdup in talks on a huge $1.3 trillion catchall spending bill that's making its way through Capitol Hill.
Among the many Education Department nominees waiting to be confirmed is one Frank Brogan, a man whose resume makes him a compelling match for the moment at hand. But he's waited months to even make it out of committee.
There's no law against being conservative, but two extreme organizations would love to believe there is. After more than a year of watching President Trump populate his agencies with pro-life, pro-freedom leaders, many liberals are doing everything they can to force the staffers -- and their policies -- out.
In this Oct. 19, 2016 file photo, a man fishes for salmon in the Snake River above the Lower Granite Dam in Washington state. Three Republican U.S. House members from Washington state are criticizing Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., for opposing their legislation that would prevent the breaching of four dams on the Snake River to help improve endangered salmon runs.
Trump's latest budget would slash the major source of public funds for mental health treatment, the Medicaid program serving more than 70 million low-income and disabled people. The budget also calls for a 36 percent cut to an Education Department grant program that supports safer schools, reducing it by $25 million from the current level of $67.5 million.
Mulvaney, a former tea party congressman, flubbed a response at a Senate hearing Tuesday that made it sound like he was opposed to the very budget he came to testify in favor of. Senior panel Democrat Patty Murray of Washington asked Mulvaney, "If you were in Congress would you have voted for this budget that you're presenting?" Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned Wednesday over financial conflicts of interest involving her investments in health care businesses.
After the failure of Republican led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act ignominiously failed in mid-2017, most had assumed that efforts to dismantle the ACA would subside as Congress' focus quickly turned to tax reform; however, the Republican-led Senate snuck a repeal of the ACA's individual mandate into their version of tax legislation in ... (more)
About 20 years were spent preparing the highly contaminated Plutonium Finishing Plant for demolition. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, both D-Wash., say they support the current halt to the demolition following the spread of radioactive contamination at Hanford.
His once-promising political career in shambles, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken appeared on the verge of resigning after fellow Democrats led by female senators, including Washington's Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, abandoned him Wednesday over the mounting allegations of sexual misconduct that are roiling Capitol Hill. A majority of the Senate's Democrats called on the two-term lawmaker to get out after another woman emerged Wednesday saying he forcibly tried to kiss her in 2006.
The government runs out of funding on Friday and as of Wednesday afternoon neither the House or the Senate had voted on a bill to keep it open. In this Nov. 18, 2016, photo, the U.S. Capitol dome is seen at sunset on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The Republican tax overhaul that squeaked through the Senate early Saturday morning would reach deep into the nation's health-care system, with a clear dagger to a core aspect of the Affordable Care Act and broader ripple effects that could threaten other programs over time. The measure would abolish the government's enforcement of the ACA requirement that most Americans carry insurance coverage.