by Malena Caruso | Jul 19, 2012 | Sports
Forty years after the Title IX Amendment — prohibiting gender discrimination in school programs that receive federal funding — was signed into law, President Barack Obama honored Baylor’s women’s basketball team for a 40-0 season and winning...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 13, 2012 | National Security, Topics
The Department of Homeland Security turns 10 in November. The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held a series of two hearings this week to examine the past, present and future of DHS. Admiral Thad Allen acted as a witness during...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 12, 2012 | Science + Technology
The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing Wednesday on Medicare physician payments to try and gain insight and ideas about how to reform Medicare. There will be severe cuts to the payments doctors receive for seeing Medicare patients. Malena Caruso debriefs the...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 10, 2012 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — If Tuesday’s conservative American Action Network news conference had been a fight on the school playground, Obamacare would be yelling, “Uncle!” Conservative lawmakers, think tanks and policy analysts made clear their opposition to the Affordable...
by Malena Caruso | Jul 9, 2012 | Science + Technology
On July 4th the food vendors at the Smithsonian Folk Festival got a special visit. Inspectors from the Public Health Service were out on the National Mall keeping visitors safe, but you may not have seen them. The two officers were checking the safety and quality of...