Gordon R. England’s appointment to a top Pentagon post in 2006 came at a high price. The Senate committee overseeing his confirmation demanded that he give up lucrative stocks and options he held in companies that do business with the military.

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Senate panel ban seen as double standard

Contrave is one step closer to being the first new prescription diet pill on the market in a decade, clearing the panel that is a key part of FDA approval on Tuesday. The FDA usually follows the panel’s recommendations and will vote on Contrave by Jan….

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New Diet Pill Nears FDA Approval

A 11-7 majority on the panel backed the package to reduce projected deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade, but 14 votes were needed to send the plan to Congress.

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Backing for Fiscal Panel’s Plan Grows, but Still Falls Short

Care until Friday, when the panel votes and, in all likelihood, rejects it: President Obama’s deficit commission released its report on Wednesday, and recommended a combination of measures that could cost the average tax payer $1,700 per year. They…

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Deficit Commission Stands By Guns

Despite an impassioned, tearful apology and a plea for leniency, Rep. Charles B. Rangel on Thursday became the first House member in nearly three decades to be recommended for censure.

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House ethics panel backs censure of Rangel

Congress has agreed to take up the deficit commission’s recommendations-which, it was revealed Wednesday, include cuts to Medicare and Social Security, eliminating NPR, eliminating federal jobs, and $100 billion in cuts in defense-if 14 of the panel’s…

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Deficit Plan Unlikely to Muster Support

President Obama’s newly created Oil Spill Commission had blunt and harsh words for BP as a company as it prepares its final report and assessments for the president, due in January. Investigators for the panel have unearthed evidence that shows that…

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BP Culture Was A Failure: Commission

The lead investigator for the panel investigating the BP oil spill said that he had found no evidence of shortcuts taken to save money by anyone involved in drilling the well.

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It’s not too soon to start worrying about Darrell Issa.

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Which Darrell Issa would run House oversight panel?