Secret Service chief seeks to reassure senators

The latest embarrassing episode involving a drunken Secret Service agent overseas for a presidential trip was an isolated incident, Secret Service Director Julia Pierson said Tuesday.

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Industry group seeks continuous flight tracking in wake of MH370 crash

An aviation industry group is creating a task force to make recommendations this year for continuously tracking commercial airliners because "we cannot let another aircraft simply vanish" like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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Bills stadium group meets with sense of urgency

Bills president Russ Brandon can appreciate how eight years is not much time to establish a plan to secure the franchise's long-term future in Buffalo.

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Business Highlights

The piece needed to fix a defective ignition switch linked to 13 deaths would have cost just 57 cents, according to documents submitted by General Motors to lawmakers investigating why the company took 10 years to recall cars with the flaw.

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Rep. Graves Praises FY15 Ryan Budget And Its Support For More State Control Of Highway Funding

U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan Tuesday released the Fiscal Year 2015 House Republican Budget proposal, which contains concepts from U.S. Rep. Tom Graves' Transportation Empowerment Act.

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Illinois governor calls Knuckles 'trailblazer'

The governor issued a statement Tuesday after Knuckles' death on Monday. Knuckles was known as the "Godfather of House Music" and has a street named after him near downtown Chicago.

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Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment

As the ranks of heroin users rise, increasing numbers of addicts are looking for help but are failing to find it -- because there are no beds in packed facilities, treatment is hugely expensive and insurance companies won't pay for inpatient rehab.

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Court: Hawaii not required to pay for migrant care

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling filed Tuesday that Hawaii has no constitutional obligation to fill a gap left in 1996 when Congress cut health care funding for migrants under the Compact of Free Association.

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United launches first Atlantic City flights

The first United Airlines flight landed at Atlantic City International Airport from Chicago on Tuesday, signaling what transportation officials hope will be a new era of prosperity for the struggling facility and the gambling resort it serves.

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Md. moves to revamp flawed health exchange

The board of directors of the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange decided to adopt a technology developed by Deloitte Consulting that has proved successful in Connecticut.

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GM chief deflects lawmakers amid new revelations on ignitions

"While I cannot turn back the clock," she said in sworn testimony, "as soon as I learned about the problem, we acted without hesitation.

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Jim Clyburn's Democrat primary challenger is more Republican than Democrat

The Dorchester County retiree challenging 11-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn in the Democratic primary has a history of voting Republican and describes herself as a "tea partier."

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The 57-cent part: Congress demands answers on GM recall delay

House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee Chairman Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., watches at left as the subcommittee's ranking member, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo.

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Obama celebrates 7.1 million health care sign-ups

After facing a rocky start and chorus of naysayers who declared his health care law a failure, President Barack Obama on Tuesday celebrated a better-than-expected 7.1 million sign-ups for health coverage that he said should end the debate over whether the law should be repealed.

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Enrollment caveats will keep ACA counting

With special enrollment, extra special enrollment, slightly extended state enrollment and very extended state enrollment, the sign-up tally will keep climbing beyond the 7.1 million people President Barack Obama announced Tuesday.

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Ukraine bill sent to Obama

The House easily passed economic assistance to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, capping the package's tumultuous ride on Capitol Hill and sending the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature.

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GM chief grilled on slow recall action

The first woman to lead the nation's largest automaker came to Capitol Hill ready to show Congress the company had taken action since first recalling millions of Chevy Cobalts and Saturn Ions, ordering an internal investigation led by a former U.S. attorney, appointing a new high-ranking executive with safety responsibilities and most recently, ... (more)

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Congress targets overpriced medical procedures with bills

The measure follows years of criticism of the way that Medicare, and in turn the entire U.S. health market, decides how much to pay a physician for performing a procedure.

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Idaho man who shot at White House sentenced to 25 years in prison

An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to firing an assault rifle at the White House in 2011, striking the executive mansion more than half a dozen times, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.

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"Rosie the Riveters" Meet Biden

The 92-year-old Rosie the Riveter had been waiting a long time for the warm embrace she got Monday from Vice President Joe Biden.

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'Success never ends'

U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin addressed community members on the importance of leading by example, Saturday evening at the 26th annual Progressive Citizen of the Year Banquet at the Will Rogers Memorial.

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Vice President Joe Biden is encouraging last-minute applicants for health care under President Barack Obama's law that they are "going to be better off for it."

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Body in DC park believed to be murder suspect's

Asiana Airlines says a Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport had inadequate warning systems to alert the crew to problems with air speed.

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Congress passes bill to stop cut in payments to Medicare doctors

With just hours to spare, Congress stepped Monday to finalize legislation to prevent doctors who treat Medicare patients from being hit with a 24 percent cut in their payments from the government.

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STARNES: Air Force pulls Bible from POW-MIA display

On March 14 Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh told members of the House Armed Services committee that there was no war on religious liberty.

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'Rosie the Riveters' meet president, vice president in Washington, D.C.

Fairfax resident Phyllis Gould gets a hug from Vice President Joe Biden at the White House Monday.

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Detroit council initiative to tackle issues facing black men

City Council members James Tate and Andre Spivey have launched a new task force aimed at addressing the most troubled segment of Detroit: black men.

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Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright addresses Michigan Roundtable event

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President Barack Obama, says Detroit 'can become our Jerusalem,' or an exemplary city.

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Can Jay Inslee save the Life Sciences Discovery Fund?

The Senate's most recent budget would toss funding for healthcare and biotech research that has generated an estimated $1 billion economic impact.

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Seniors group buys ads critical of both parties for potential changes to Freddie, ...

A conservative seniors group with ties to the billionaire Koch brothers on Monday announced $1.5 million in ads against seven members of the Senate Banking Committee in the hopes of derailing a proposal that would effectively scrap mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

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