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The federal hiring process is broken and needs a quick fix, two senators with a keen interest in government management said yesterday.

CQPolitics.com - Faced with a possible turnover, Republicans have a with a new consensus candidate for the seat of retiring Republican Rep. James T. Walsh. Dale Sweetland will face Democrat Dan Maffei, who is running again after holding Walsh to the lowest take of his 10-term House career in 2006.

WASHINGTON -- Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is calling on Congress to renew the nation's war on cancer.

Democratic leaders in Congress retreated Thursday from a plan that includes an expensive new education benefit for post-9/11 ...

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the U.S. military was stepping up preparations for a relief mission in Myanmar, but he said he couldn't imagine air dropping aid without permission from the closed regime.

AFP - The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that lawmakers hope could stem the tide of home foreclosures due to the subprime mortgage crisis, but it faces a presidential veto.

Reuters - The Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday dismissed a complaint against Sen. David Vitter, a suspected patron of a prostitution ring headed by a woman who killed herself last month.

AP - Organized labor is paying more attention to Republican John McCain as Democrat Barack Obama solidifies his status as the front-runner in the Democratic contest against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

AP - President Bush stuck out his right elbow Thursday, jokingly demonstrating how he'll escort his daughter down the aisle at her wedding this weekend.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made it clear this week that he's just itching to get into the Oval Office to end "the common and systematic abuse of our federal courts" by out-of-control, wackadoodle, ACLU-loving judges.