By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
House Republicans on Tuesday pushed forward a bill designed to increase transparency at the Federal Communications Commission and prevent what critics say are needless regulations that have created uncertainty in the market and inhibited deal-making.
While House Republicans are jockeying behind the scenes for coveted committee chairmanships should Democrats be ousted from leadership after the midterm elections, many political insiders don't expect a drastic reshuffling of leadership within the GOP.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission today defended his plan to ease limits on media ownership before Congress as House Democrats attacked his leadership of the agency
The nation's biological surveillance system is "falling short" of its goals some three years after President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security to consolidate biological threats uncovered by agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into a central early-warning system, a new report found.
The Food and Drug Administration has suspended its plan to cut half its laboratories until a new Cabinet-level panel finishes its review of ways to ensure the safety of imports, FDA Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach said yesterday.
President Bush yesterday set up a working group to recommend ways to ensure the safety of food imported from other countries.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Two senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told the Food and Drug Administration they are concerned over what they say is a plan to "drastically cut" Food and Drug Administration laboratory analysts, although an FDA spokesman suggested that the letter is based on a misunderstanding of an agency proposal.
The Bush administration should consider banning food imports from China if the Food and Drug Administration cannot ensure their safety, several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told the agency this week.
The Bush administration should consider banning food imports from China if the Food and Drug Administration cannot ensure their safety, several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee told the agency this week.
"We're going to see to it that nobody messes with this" law, said Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat.
As Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat, once said, "If you let me write the procedure, and I let you write the substance, I'll [beat] you every time."
