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WASHINGTON – Health care providers can charge the government for emergency care provided to illegal aliens beginning Tuesday. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (search) issued final guidance Monday that sets up a system for reimbursement. Lawmakers set aside $1 billion over four years for the program, created by …

WASHINGTON – The Senate’s former top lawyer got bipartisan support Thursday for a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (search), putting him in line to become the first of President Bush’s second-term appellate nominees to be confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-4 to advance Utah lawyer Thomas …

WASHINGTON – The nation’s top military officer on Friday defended a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy (search) that has led to the discharge of 9,500 gay members of the armed forces since 1993. “We try to implement the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy as best we can,” Air Force Gen. …