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WASHINGTON — Privacy advocates and industry groups are urging lawmakers to get a bipartisan federal data privacy bill passed soon: either early in the new Congress or even in the remaining weeks of the lame duck session.

Supporters of a data privacy bill hope Congress will pass legislation early in the next Congress or even in the lame-duck session.

Membership of key defense committees will change with Tuesday's midterm election, adding to the substantial turnover from retirements.

One of the most underappreciated high-stakes legislative fights, featuring some strange political bedfellows, is brewing after the elections.

The state joined states such as New York, California and Missouri in nabbing more than $50 million in health-related earmarks in fiscal 2022.

WASHINGTON — Two dozen mostly rural states are set to receive a greater share of federal research money from the recently enacted science and technology funding law as lawmakers, experts and researchers push to support talented scientists outside of major research hubs such as those in California, Massachusetts and New…

WASHINGTON — In the next Congress, Susan Collins of Maine is expected to be the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s powerful Defense panel, sources say.

Congress is steering more science and research funding to rural and low-income states to create opportunity outside of tech hubs.

Maine senator Susan Collins is poised to become the Republican on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.

Economy in focus: In Mississippi, poverty is high and water problems blight the state. But Republicans seem adamantly against spending to help their constituents

A federal agency has set aside money to help guard Mississippi’s capital city and surrounding areas against flood damage following two deluges in three years