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In Washington, the House is set to vote Wednesday on NASA's programs for next year. The bill has some help designed to ease the impact on jobs in Houston expected when the Space Shuttle is retired. Todd Zwillich has more from Capitol Hill.

The Bush Administration is ready to push ahead with a free trade plan to open America’s borders and its highways to trucks from Mexico beyond their current 20 mile limit. . As Todd Zwillich reports from Washington, the plan has some truckers and safety experts worried. Every year three million commercial trucks roll through this […]

Congress held hearings on the future of manned space. NASA is getting set to retire the space shuttle program. In its place, a program called Constellation. But the transition to the new program is set to take several years. As Todd Zwillich reports from Capitol Hill that could have an effect at NASA centers including […]

In Washington Friday, House Democrats made good on an election pledge concerning Medicare. They passed a bill repealing part of Medicare law that bars the government from negotiating directly with drug makers for lower prices. But many Democrats–including some in the leadership–acknowledged that the vote was largely symbolic. As Todd Zwillich reports a lot more […]

Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate held what Republican leaders billed as “Health Week”. It was a chance for lawmakers to vote on legislation designed to help stem the rising cost of health care coverage. But none of three bills favored by the GOP gained enough support to even reach a final vote on the […]