Health care hawks in Congress may seize on painkillerVioxx"s woes to push for major changes in the Food and Drug Administration"s drug approval process.

Patients claiming they were harmed byMerck's drugare likely to prove that the company tried to sit on hard medical evidence with hopes that it could run out the clock on its drugs' patent.

Now that Bill Donaldson will be replaced by Rep. Chris Cox, we can hope for something more substantial.

It is almost certain that so long as he holds office, the president cannot be reached by criminal law, although no Federal court has ever ruled on the question.

An analysisthat concluded mercury exposure is reducing children's IQs is flawed, invalid, and not appropriate as an input to policy decisions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission should weigh a compromise proposal on proxy access and how to pay for it.

We need a way to quickly replenish the House until special elections can be held, if large numbers of Members are killed by terrorists.

This nation’s defensesare adequate to cope with the growing dangers we face from hostile powers possessing weapons of mass destruction and effective means of delivery.