Activist: Craddick violates law by paying daughter - News 8 Austin

AUSTIN -- House Speaker Tom Craddick is facing an ethics complaint over campaign payments and state health insurance benefits for his political consultant daughter. The complaint against Republican Craddick was filed this week by Houston-area ...

Obama defends calling on Clinton-era veterans - International Herald Tribune

CHICAGO : President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday defended his decision to select veterans of the Clinton administration for positions in the West Wing, his cabinet and across the administration, saying Americans would be rightly "troubled" if he ...

Health Insurance For State Workers - Metro News

The state Public Employees Finance Board meets later today to decide whether to increase the amount thousands of state workers pay for health insurance. The PEIA staff proposed a nine percent premium increase last month and took that plan out to ...

Seeking Second Opinion on Health Care - Washington Post

The nation's largest provider of health insurance for federal employees, under fire for changes to its benefits package, says it is willing to make adjustments in answer to the complaints if only Uncle Sam would let it. Stephen W. Gammarino, a senior ...

Insurers Group Proposes Universal Health Care - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- The trade group for health insurers on Wednesday offered its own universal-coverage proposal that calls for Congress to slow the growth of health-care costs by 30% in five years, envisioning a total savings of more than $500 billion ...