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Colorado Republicans all vote for politically hot, doomed federal anti-abortion bill
Colorado lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday split along party lines on a bill that would ban nearly all late-term abortions across the...
Navajo Generating Station blamed for haze over Grand Canyon, respiratory illnesses
Residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations in the Four Corners region are dismayed that a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) on the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station near Page, Ariz., “clearly omits consideration of the coal-burning plant’s pollution impacts on public health.”
AZ Rep. Franks prepares secretive hearing on Defense of Marriage Act
The U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday titled “Defending Marriage,” called by subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who has recently called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama because of his decision to order his administration to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).