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Veterans Affairs, Defense Depts. spend billions spend billions in effort to coordinate records 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system betwe...

Claims processors received bonuses while backlog more than doubled 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

While veterans waited longer than ever in recent years for their wartime disability compensation, the Department of Veterans Affairs gave its workers millions of dollars in bonuses for “excellent” per...

Fear-mongering won't scuttle Obamacare 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

In this weekly column, former health insurance executive Wendell Potter offers commentary on matters relating to U.S. health care reform. Opponents of Obamacare know that time is not on their side. I...

Post 9/11 veterans come home to a nation that cannot address their needs 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

In the 12 years since American troops first deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, more than 2.6 million veterans have returned home to a country largely unprepared to meet their needs. The government that...

Senate committee to soon vote on FEC nominees 24 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am

The Senate Rules and Administration Committee will soon schedule an early September vote on two Federal Election Commission nominees, two sources close to the nomination process tell the Center for Pu...

OSHA rule targets worker exposure to silica 24 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday proposed a long-awaited rule to control worker exposures to silica, a toxic mineral that can cause the deadly lung disease silicosis, lung c...

Five money-in-politics facts about John Lewis 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm

Fifty years ago, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., was in Washington, D.C., to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech. As the 23-year-old, then-chairman of the Student Nonviol...

D.C. mayoral campaign may have violated coordination rules 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm

A powerful political action committee may have paid for a $15,000 poll at the request of the scandal-plagued campaign of Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, an action that could have violated rules li...

Returning veterans focus of new series by investigative program, News 21 23 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am

The Center for Public Integrity is pleased to be partnering once again with News 21, the annual student journalist investigative reporting project that launches this year’s effort on Sunday. After .....

Super PAC forms to 'draft' Ben Carson for president 22 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm

Ben Carson quickly became a tea party favorite following his criticism of some of President Barack Obama’s policies during a National Prayer Breakfast speech earlier this year. Some conservatives even...

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