A U.S. House committee is investigating whether Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri violated House rules in connection with testimony in front of another committee, Washington bureau chief Bill Lambrecht reports in this story on the mother ship.

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WASHINGTON — In the blowback to the shifting health care debate, many progressives were wondering today what kind of reform would be left if Democrats back off the demand that any package contain a government entity to compete with insurance companies.

Some…

St. Louis and a handful of suburbs will get about $12.6 million in federal economic stimulus funds designed to help cities avoid laying off police officers, the Obama administration announced this morning. The grant will fund the salaries of 71 police…

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U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., says the United States should call North Korea’s bluff and stop the cargo ship off China’s coast that is suspected of carrying arms in violation of a recent United Nations resolution.

“I believe we should either…

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a $106 billion supplemental defense bill moments ago that included good news for Boeing St. Louis workers: $2.2 billion for eight C-17 cargo planes.

The funding matches the initial allotment in the bill for the C-17 line, which…

Ben Chandler, D-KY., scores a run during the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park in Washington Credit: Douglas Graham/Roll Call

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ fortunes have shifted from the electoral sweep on Capitol Hill and the White House to the…

WASHINGTON — Funding for a muti-year contract for F/A-18s inched closer to becoming official policy today when the House Armed Services Committee approved the measure in 2010 defense spending.

The language giving the Navy the authority to spend $108 million to secure a multi-year…

WASHINGTON — If you’re a member of Congress, you’d better have book shelves and love chocolate. You always know what day it is.

Those conclusions can be drawn from Rep. John Shimkus’s newly filed financial disclosure statement, which includes a nine-page list of gifts he received last…

WASHINGTON — On June 14, 1943, a converted B-17 bomber carrying Pfc. Charles Williams of St. Louis and 33 other soldiers crashed in the fog just before dawn while ferrying troops back to New Guinea after their furloughs on the beaches of…

WASHINGTON — According to sources, a key House panel tomorrow likely will deliver good news to Boeing and the St. Louis workforce when it advances legislation to purchase more F/A-18 Super Hornets for the Navy.

Congressional approval of military aircraft used to be a rather…