Rob Cogorno is in charge of the digital timepiece marking the passage of legislative time as House Democrats push their ?Hundred Hours for a New Direction? agenda.
Here's another plug for broccoli and leafy green vegetables: The folic acid they contain may help reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. A new study published yesterday in the Archives of Neurology, which followed the diets of 965 seniors for six years, found that those who had the highest intake of the nutrient from both food sources and supplements were least likely to develop the disease.
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine will introduce legislation that would create a nationwide mercury-monitoring network to identify dangerous mercury hot spots.
AP - President Bush will tell the nation Wednesday night he will send more than 20,000 additional American forces to Iraq, acknowledging that it was a mistake earlier not to have more American and Iraqi troops fighting the war.
AP - Flexing their muscle, House Democrats powered toward passage Wednesday of a boost in the federal minimum wage that would increase paychecks for hundreds of thousands of janitors, fast food clerks and other workers at the bottom of the income scale.
AP - President Hugo Chavez echoed Fidel Castro's cry of "socialism or death" as he was sworn in for a new six-year term on Wednesday, promising to accelerate Venezuela's transformation into a socialist state.
A U.S.-led airstrike in Somalia has killed the suspected orchestrator of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, Somali officials said today. U.S. officials would not confirm that al Qaeda's Fazul Abdullah Mohammed had been killed.