At the center of the feud is Reid’s push for an extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless.

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Before the sun had risen in Washington on the House-passed healthcare legislation that President Barack Obama has sought for a year and won last night on Capitol Hill, the new Republican rallying cries were rising: “Repeal” and “A …

Tea Party activists held a rally Tuesday on Capitol Hill to kill the health care measure House Democrats hope to pass this week. They called their rally Code Red for Health Care, and hoped their voices would help stall the bill.

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday following complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering from complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., with his family at his …