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- Kathleen Matthews' campaign for the 8th Congressional District picked up several high-profile endorsements on Monday, including two senators, the state comptroller and a former lieutenant governor.
- "The San Francisco Mafia" dominates California's Democratic Party, says David Horsey.
- Maryland House of Ruth is wrong to criticize proposal to accept shared child custody as legal starting point
- With Obama in office, Democrats have lost their taste for dissent.
- Bipartisan proposal to crackdown on sexual assaults in the U.S. armed services gets a much-needed boost from two GOP senators
- NEPA prevented great harm to the Chesapeake Bay, but now some in Congress want to undermine it
- A Senate bill on visa waivers for Israel would allow it to keep out those it suspects for any reason — including their religion, Arab heritage or sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
- Cal Thomas says more women in power is a good thing but questions whether they are more able than men to get things done.
- Has Congress nothing better to do than debate military's use of lead?
- Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges.
- The Maryland Democrat, who this year became the longest-serving woman in congressional history, will lead a program highlighting the record 12 women running this year for Senate.
- U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski was honored on the floor of the Senate Wednesday for becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress, having joined the House in 1976 and the Senate in 1986.
- Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin is gaining national attention for his stance against a bill in Congress that would reduce federal regulation of pesticides. It is the latest in a series of moves intended to raise his profile on environmental issues in advance of his re-election bid next year.