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Medical experts and advocates told a Capitol Hill forum Tuesday that Congress could close some gaping holes in the country's mental health system virtually overnight, but a key Democratic lawmaker said he didn't foresee any action on the issue in the near future.
Three Republican congressmen introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit the Pentagon from ranking a new heroism medal for drone pilots and cyberwarriors equal to or higher than the Purple Heart.
The Washington Times analyzed a decade of congressional pay records to find the offices with the highest turnover rates and found 27 members who — over a period of four or more years — lost an annual average of at least one-third of their staff who sought calmer pastures or were fired.
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Club for Growth's political arms on Tuesday launched a media attack against three moderate Republican congressional candidates in battleground states, accusing them of failing to live up to conservative fiscal principles.
Obama administration officials refused to say Wednesday whether anybody would be fired over the decision to award solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra LLC a half-billion dollars in loans before it went bankrupt and saw its headquarters raided by the FBI.
Congress moved Wednesday to stop scammers who use fake caller IDs to trick people into revealing Social Security and credit card numbers and other vital information.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee this week began running radio advertisements to criticize 12 Republican House members for their "lock-step" support of President Bush's war policy.
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"[T]he vast majority of people with severe mental illness are not violent," Mr. Murphy, a psychologist who also co-chairs the Mental Health Caucus, said in his opening remarks. "This committee is committed to addressing the difficult but necessary question of how we can stop the violently mentally ill from acting out and get them treatment before they harm themselves or others."
In the wake of the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, he said, Virginia "is now one of the leading states about reporting someone with a mental illness to various federal agencies — even people who have shown no danger, people who have just simply shown up and said, 'Gee, I need help.'"
