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• Health insurers may lose antitrust exemption

  WRIC 8 News | 10/21/2009 06:05 pm

  A House committee has voted to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws as senators announced plans to take the same step.

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• Virginia dead last in spending stimulus for roads

  Local News from Richmond-Times Dispatch | 10/02/2009 11:38 pm

  Virginia is dead last in the country in getting federal transportation stimulus money into the hands of working people, according to the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation ...

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• House Dems seek info from health insurers

  WRIC 8 News | 08/19/2009 07:45 pm

  A spokesman for the health insurance industry accused Democrats of mounting a "fishing expedition" on Wednesday, as individual insurers decided whether to honor a request for financial records sought in ...

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• High-tech drugs would get 12-yr market protection

  WRIC 8 News | 07/31/2009 10:43 pm

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee has agreed to grant 12 years of market protection to high-tech drugs used to combat cancer, Parkinson's and other deadly diseases.

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• House panel prepares to wrap up health care bill

  AP Health | 07/31/2009 09:14 am

  WASHINGTON (AP) — As recently as two weeks ago it might not have looked like much of a victory. But after a series of delays and some rancorous disputes over ...

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• Abortion measure passes, then fails, in House

  AP Health | 07/31/2009 04:42 am

  WASHINGTON (AP) — An anti-abortion amendment to a sweeping health overhaul bill was voted down in a House committee late Thursday — a dramatic reversal just hours after the measure ...

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• Bill to decide Puerto Rico's status moves forward

  WRIC 8 News | 07/22/2009 09:54 pm

  WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee approved aproposal Wednesday that would let Puerto Ricans decide their island's political status. It was unclear whether the full Congress would consider the bill.

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• House panel begins action on climate bill

  WRIC 8 News | 05/18/2009 02:46 pm

  Associated Press - May 18, 2009 2:33 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - A key House committee has begun consideration of a Democratic bill to address global warming.

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• Altria Spends $3 Million on Lobbying

  richmond.com | 05/05/2008 07:42 am

  Altria Group Inc., parent company of Philip Morris USA, spent more than $3 million in the first quarter of 2008 to lobby Congress and the State Department, the Associated Press has reported. Altria ...

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• General Assembly Recap

  richmond.com | 02/29/2008 10:56 am

  The state House of Delegates and Senate battled each other's competing budgets this week as committees on both sides also took final action on members' bills. The Senate courts of ...

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