Science & Medicine
One of the most wrenching decisions in medicine is which of the 68,000 Americans awaiting organ transplants each year should get them.
April 10, 2000
World & Nation
Hanoi invited four members of a U.S. congressional delegation to make on-site investigations of reports that American prisoners of war are still being held in Vietnam, Sen.
Jan. 19, 1986
Litigation: Government is entitled to some funds states win in suits to recover smoking-related Medicaid costs, public-interest center’s report says.
Dec. 6, 1997
President Clinton signed a bill into law Thursday to protect current nursing home residents from being evicted or forced to move solely because they rely on Medicaid to pay their bills.
March 26, 1999
Politics
Amid signs of partisan troubles ahead, congressional Republican leaders appointed their eight members Monday to a bipartisan commission that is to suggest ways to buttress the long-term financial health of Medicare.
Dec. 2, 1997
Republican prospects for moving HMO legislation to the House floor next week looked increasingly dim Thursday, as GOP leaders struggled to write a bill that could keep the fractured party together.
July 30, 1999
Major organizations with deeply held interests in the health care debate began choosing sides Wednesday on the Senate leadership’s reform legislation, led by the influential American Assn. of Retired Persons, which ended months of neutrality by endorsing the plan.
Aug. 11, 1994
At a Florida fundraiser, the president touts GOP-backed savings for taxpayers. A Democratic congressman says the result is more debt.
Sept. 22, 2006
Both parties support changing policy on pensions to win the votes of military families.
Nov. 11, 2003
Sports
In a tumultuous period of evolution and revolution in baseball, Congress may soon get in its own licks.
Feb. 7, 1993