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More than 1,000 current and former employees across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signed a letter on Wednesday morning calling for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s resignation.Addressed to Kennedy and members of Congress, the signatories accused the secretary of endangering the health of Americans. Save HHS, the group behind the letter, told ABC News it's been sent to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions; Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as Majority and Minority leadership."We swore an oath to support and defend the United States...

Federal government’s “corporate culture” is dominated by career bureaucrats with no passion for their product and no incentive to improve Many years and a few lifetimes ago, I received Presidential appointments to serve in the federal government. It was an experience I will never forget and I was honored to serve. It was an eye-opening experience in how our Washington government actually works, or doesn’t work as the case may be.

Scores of soon-to-be-unemployed Democrats fear that their party’s electoral defeat could hinder their ability to find work on K Street, a traditional safe haven and source of employment for Capitol Hill staff. At a time when many Democrats are anxious about their ability to earn a living, some even fear that a conspiracy to blacklist aides to certain Democrats, such as Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), could be afoot. Daschle, who is reviled by many congressional Republicans for his efforts to stop GOP initiatives and judicial nominees in the Senate, was defeated in this month’s election by former Rep....

Mineta, Magaw and Ridge Deserve to Be Removedby Joseph P. TartaroExecutive Editor, GunWeekJune 10, 2002 Within hours of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon across the Potomac from Washington, DC, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) was the first voice heard calling for Congress to pass legislation allowing airline pilots who volunteered and were trained to carry guns in the cockpit as a last line of defense in similar future hijackings. Congress acted and passed such enabling legislation just a few months after...