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  • Rep. Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee Republican (Associated Press)

    Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a doctor, reprimanded for sex with patients

    Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a licensed physician, was reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients before he was elected to Congress, according to documents released Thursday.

  • "We're sending a message to the Democrat-controlled Senate: It's time to do your job," House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday. (Associated Press)

    Republican strategy switch clears the way for debt hike

    Acting well before the deadline and with rare bipartisan unity, the House voted Wednesday to waive the federal debt ceiling for the next four months as Republicans retreated from their insistence that any raising of the ceiling be matched dollar-for-dollar with spending cuts.

  • Inside Politics: Testimony shows Tennessee pro-life lawmaker OK’d abortions

    Rep. Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee Republican, testified during divorce proceedings that he and his former wife made mutual decisions for her to have two abortions.

  • Inside Politics: Alabama GOP plans election night party at gun range

    Alabama Republicans plan to hold their election night party at a gun range, where participants will be able to shoot a few rounds as returns come in.

  • Inside Politics: Rubio’s daughter released from children’s hospital

    The 12-year-old daughter of Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, is out of the hospital and at home recovering from a head injury suffered in a golf cart accident.

  • DesJarlais suggested abortion to mistress

    A Republican congressman from Tennessee is telling supporters he's not a hypocrite for discussing abortion with a mistress more than a decade ago. But now he may also have to defend his right to practice medicine.

  • **FILE** Pepsi products are for sale at a grocery store in Danvers, Mass. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Sugar police on the prowl

    Mary Poppins, call your office. That spoonful of sugar might make the medicine go down, but it also makes the weight go up and should be kept away from kids - or so say sugar nannies sprinkled across the country. While some simply frown upon consumption of the sweet stuff, the more ambitious want it outlawed entirely. Americans ought to tell these busybodies to keep their sticky fingers off our fridges before the land of the free dissolves into the land of the sugar-free.

  • Rep. Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee Republican, says it's absurd to spend billions demonizing certain foods and trying to affect people's dietary choices. (Associated Press)

    GOP freshman slams Obama's anti-obesity ad campaign

    A freshman Republican congressman from Tennessee is fighting back against anti-obesity ad campaigns initiated by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats that target sugary soft drinks and other high-calorie foods.

  • Rep. Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee Republican, says it's absurd to spend billions demonizing certain foods and trying to affect people's dietary choices. (Associated Press)

    GOP freshman slams Obama's costly anti-obesity ad campaign

    A freshman Republican congressman from Tennessee is fighting back against anti-obesity ad campaigns initiated by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats that target sugary soft drinks and other high-calorie foods.

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