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Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown Thursday with a short-term spending bill that punted thorny debates over immigration and health care to next month.

By John Fritze

Dec 21, 2017

The Grand Old Party remains hung up on the false belief that most Americans don't want Obamacare, despite all evidence to the contrary.

The Senate GOP tax plan may actually be worse than the House version, frightening as that is to contemplate.

To keep health insurance costs from spiraling out of control, we have changed providers four times since Obamacare was enacted seven years ago. Moreover, we have jacked up deductibles.

Common ground has repeatedly proved illusory in the health-care debate. Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray have struck a

The Alternative Fact of the Week: Whatever Donald Trump last said about his position on the Alexander/Murray ACA fix.

President Donald Trump says Obamacare is imploding. If so, it's only because he's working so hard to make it so.

Our View: Early indications are that it isn’t much better than previous proposals that were ultimately rejected this summer and, in some ways, might actually be worse.

In casting the deciding vote against the GOP's totally irresponsible bill to emasculate the health insurance law, Mr. McCain restored his reputation as the Senate's political maverick.

By Jules Witcover

Jul 31, 2017

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited the Maryland Correctional Institute in Jessup Friday to announce a program that would make some inmates eligible for Pell grants.

Jonah Goldberg: With the sand running out on the Obama presidency, it's finally dawning on the president's friends and fans that he can be a real jerk.

The questions of overcoming the effects of poverty are still very much with us today, 50 years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to help end the economic achievement gap.

Some of the nation's top university officials, including the chancellor of the University System of Maryland, are calling on Congress to roll back what they see as a byzantine and ever-expanding system of federal regulations that is costing schools millions of dollars each year.

By John Fritze

Feb 24, 2015

President Barack Obama surprised lunchtime diners at a Baltimore café on Thursday with an unannounced stop to promote a proposal to guarantee paid sick leave to all American workers.

WASHINGTON — A controversial tax on medical devices and a requirement that companies offer health coverage for employees who work a shortened week are being targeted for repeal by the new Republican Congress, an indication the party remains committed to undercutting "Obamacare."

By John Fritze

Jan 12, 2015

President Obama's order will spare millions from deportation and inches U.S. toward a more rational immigration policy

Jesse Loskarn, 35, was fired after his arrest on child pornography charges last month

Former U.S. Senate aide Jesse Loskarn, who was awaiting trial on child pornography charges was found dead in Sykesville of a possible suicide, the Carroll County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

WASHINGTON -- An Annapolis attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board cleared a committee vote Wednesday and is expected to win confirmation by the full Senate as early as next week.

An Annapolis lawyer who has long represented unions tried to assure Senate Republicans on Tuesday that she could serve as an impartial member of the National Labor Relations Board.

WASHINGTON -- Democrats and Republicans quickly squared off Thursday over the confirmation of Labor Secretary nominee and Marylander Tom Perez -- preparing for a fight that is likely to intensify after a Senate committee voted along party lines to advance his nomination to the full Senate.

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official.

Thomas E. Perez faced pointed questions at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday about whether politics influenced his decisions as the head of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Justice Department.

States are increasingly interested in applying sales taxes to Internet purchases as budgets tighten and the effects of federal cuts loom.

If Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander is leaving his party's Senate leadership to pursue a more independent course, who is giving the GOP its marching orders?

Jules Witcover: Sen. Lamar Alexander, dismayed by incivility, quits party leadership