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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are pushing ahead with a defense budget that adds billions of dollars, boosts nuclear weapons programs and slows cost-cutting reductions in the force.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House is taking up a Republican-written bill to protect women from violence, but the Obama White House says it doesn't go far enough and is threatening a veto.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -Congresswoman Kristi Noem has introduced a bill that would require the Army Corps of Engineers to notify the public whenever expected high runoff could cause flooding along the Missouri River.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is giving up her citizenship in Switzerland.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several House Democrats are calling on the New York Police Department to purge its intelligence databases of information gleaned from programs aimed at spying on Muslims. And they say the Obama administration has offered only wishy-washy responses to whether it approves of such tactics.

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker John Boehner says he's staying focused on jobs and the economy in the 2012 elections and not President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans controlling the House are pressing legislation cutting food stamps, health care and pensions for federal workers as an alternative to an automatic 10 percent cut scheduled to hit the military come January.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel is pushing ahead with a $642 billion defense bill that backs construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January.

WASHINGTON (AP) - As Mitt Romney has emerged as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, Republicans in Congress are increasingly taking their cues from him - even if it causes heartburn and grumbling among conservatives unhappy about having to beat a tactical retreat.

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders are ready to push legislation holding down interest rates on federal loans to millions of college students.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A bill aimed at keeping Wyoming soda ash competitive globally is being reviewed in Washington.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker John Boehner says the House will vote Friday on a Republican bill preventing interest rates on federal student loans from doubling this summer. But the legislation will be paid for by cutting money from President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Homeland Security inspector general is supervising the Secret Service prostitution investigation and will "leave no stone unturned."