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• Politics

Barbara Boxer, Peter Franchot backing Kathleen Matthews in 8th District race

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.

By John Fritze

Jan 11, 2016

• Opinion

Willie Brown warns Villaraigosa: 'Don't crowd Kamala!'

"The San Francisco Mafia" dominates California's Democratic Party, says David Horsey.

• Maryland

Letter: Still seeking truth about Benghazi

• Opinion

Md. should adopt shared child custody as ideal [Letter]

Maryland House of Ruth is wrong to criticize proposal to accept shared child custody as legal starting point

• Opinion

With Obama in office, Democrats have lost their taste for dissent [Letter]

With Obama in office, Democrats have lost their taste for dissent.

• Opinion

Military sexual assaults: reforms not dead yet

Bipartisan proposal to crackdown on sexual assaults in the U.S. armed services gets a much-needed boost from two GOP senators

• Opinion

Save public input to help save the environment

NEPA prevented great harm to the Chesapeake Bay, but now some in Congress want to undermine it

• Opinion

Don't let Israel discriminate against Americans based on religion

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.

• Politics

California senators make good on Super Bowl bet with Mikulski, Cardin

• Feminism

Female vs. male senators

Cal Thomas says more women in power is a good thing but questions whether they are more able than men to get things done.

• Opinion

Has Congress nothing better to do than debate military's use of lead?

Has Congress nothing better to do than debate military's use of lead?

• U.S. Department of Defense

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says

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.

• Ben Cardin

Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says

• Politics

Mikulski to speak on Senate women at Democratic National Convention

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.

• Maryland

Mikulski honored as longest-serving woman in Congress

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.

• Crime

Cardin leads fight over pesticides

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.

• Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina vs. Barbara Boxer: authors face off in Cali

• Opinion

Is California immune to anti-incumbent tide?

• Real Estate

Obama to adjust focus of bailout

• Bill Clinton

Obama decides on Clinton, aides say

• Barbara Boxer

Senate panel to eye sludge study

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

EPA chief defends denying Calif. rules

• Ben Cardin

Historic climate bill gets yes vote in committee

• Climate Change

U.S. action on bay sought

• Pakistan

FBI looks for man who held Clinton, Boxer fundraisers

• Middle East

Both parties question sending more forces

• Barbara Mikulski

Feminist zeal marred decisionThe lengthy story by...

• Barbara Boxer

Bye bye Bob

• Sexual Misconduct

Mikulski describes fall of Packwood

• Sexual Misconduct

Packwood does about-face, seeks public hearings

• U.S. Senate

He Can't Go Home Again -- So He's Visiting Us

• Barbara Boxer

Altered movies hot topic in Congress, Hollywood

• Barbara Boxer

Packwood won't need to face his accusers

• Sexual Misconduct

In this corner, Barbara Boxer

• Barbara Boxer

Calls for Senate hearings on Packwood stir fears of replay of Anita Hill disaster

• U.S. Senate

Product liability and sexual politics

• Barbara Boxer

White House, white gown are lined up for wedding

• U.S. Senate

The Trickle-Up Effect

• Dianne Feinstein

Calif. appears ready for two female senators ON POLITICS

• U.S. Senate

Female candidates over come the 'credibility gap'

• Dianne Feinstein

Mud slung with abandon in California's primaries

• Barbara Boxer

Calif. has a good chance of making feminist history ON POLITICS

• Bill Clinton

Clinton heads for Oregon to forestall any surprises

• Unions

Marching for a safe workplaceWASHINGTON -- More...

• Barbara Boxer

House panel reviews bills to aid military parents One bill would bar service abroad for single parent. PERSIAN GULF SHOWDOWN