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Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Santa Monica) has been honored by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the Nurse-Family Partnership as a champion of home visitation in support of children.

Residents of Santa Monica and Los Angeles who reside near and around the Santa Monica Airport met recently with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Santa Monica) to ask him if he would be willing to introduce legislation at the federal level that recently passed the California Legislature.

The smart money in Washington and Chicago, Illinois, says it's all but a certainty that within weeks Rahm Emanuel will throw his hat into the ring to replace retiring Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. So the parlor game over who will replace Emanuel as White House chief of staff has already kicked into high gear.

Republicans have a good chance to win control of the House of Representatives this fall, and Darrell Issa will likely lead the oversight committee, with unfettered subpoena power. Darrell Issa - Republican - Barack Obama - United States - United States House of Representatives

The oil company accepts a share of the responsibility for the deadly explosion and oil spill but also takes aim at contractors Transocean and Halliburton, setting off additional finger-pointing. An internal investigation released Wednesday by BP concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig ...

Making the plug for Phil Schiliro, the president's go-to policy wonk Rahm Emanuel - Phil Schiliro - President of the United States - Chicago - White House

BP cited faulty cement and a lack of attention to warning signs by its partners in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig for the explosion that led to a catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, but it also pointed the finger at its partners on the doomed rig.

Updated: 9/7/2010, 4:01 pm | The number of “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters — where oxygen is so depleted that it can harm marine life — has soared 30-fold over the last half century, according to a new White House report that warns the phenomenon poses both economic and environmental hazards.

Another member of Congress is calling for an investigation into the recall of a half-billion eggs, which may be linked to nearly 1,500 cases of salmonella.