House Lawmakers stories:
On healthcare reform, House lawmakers get past the abortion hurdle
Nov 7th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
When President Obama arrived at the Cannon office building Saturday to rally House Democrats for a historic vote on healthcare reform, he was met with anti-abortion protesters...
House lawmakers meet on RI's tanking economy
Nov 6th, 2009 - Boston
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—State lawmakers are debating plans ranging from auto racing to consolidating municipal services to steer Rhode Island through a bleak financial crisis.
US House Overwhelmingly Passes Resolution Critical of UN Report on Gaza
Nov 3rd, 2009 - VOA News
The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning a report by a United Nations fact-finding panel that criticized Israel as part of an assessment of the conflict in Gaza in 2008 between Israel and Hamas...White House, Lawmakers Reach Deal on Legal Shield for Journalists
Oct 30th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The White House has reached a compromise with lawmakers on legislation that would give legal protections to journalists who want to protect their confidential sources, according to Senate sponsors of the bill. U.S...
R.I. to vote on plantation as part of name
Oct 29th, 2009 - Boston
PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island residents will vote next year whether to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name because of its association with slavery, state lawmakers decided yesterday. Officially...



