Heart Disease And Stroke Survivors Urge Congress To Increase Funding For The National Institutes Of Health

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Enhance National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported research to improve health, spur economic growth and innovation and science. American Heart Association patient advocates and researchers today delivered that message to members of Congress during the association's Research Saves Lives Fly-In Lobby Day. Many heart disease and stroke survivors have benefited from ...

Deadline, shmeadline. Health bill doesn’t need one?

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Congress is up against a hard deadline for passing health insurance reform legislation. Msnbc.com fact-checks this claim — and more.

Give Congress the Boot to Save Our Great Country: Caroline Baum

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The public is mad as hell at Washington: at the corruption, the underhanded deals, the earmarks, the sense of entitlement that comes with lifetime employment. If we don’t want to take it anymore, we can do something about it.

Toyota: Test Cited in Congress Isn’t Realistic

Monday, March 8th, 2010

The automaker said its electronic throttle-control system couldn't cause unintended acceleration in the real world

Smart Banks With Dumb Customers Don’t Exist: Roger Lowenstein

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Republicans and Democrats in Congress have been squabbling about whether the new financial consumer-protection agency should be housed within the Federal Reserve or as part of an independent body.