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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

The House voted Thursday to back a bill that would allow students, faculty and visitors to carry guns on Idaho's college campuses.
From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
With two days to go before they are supposed to leave town, House Republicans and Gov. Terry McAuliffe showed no signs Thursday of budging in their standoff over expanding Medicaid, bringing Virginia closer to a historic budget stalemate.
The investigative arm of Congress on Wednesday agreed to look into problems with state health exchange websites around the country.
After hearing their story and those of other parents whose children suffer from severe epilepsy, the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee approved a bill Wednesday that would allow medical use of a marijuana strain called "Charlotte's Web."
Assembly Republicans ousted Rep. Bill Kramer as majority leader Tuesday after accusations that he sexually harassed one woman and inappropriately touched another.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia, claiming a rule regulating the length of employees’ beards constitutes religious discrimination.
A few key Republican senators joined with Democrats on Wednesday to defeat a bill that would have prohibited Arizona from using a set of educational standards known nationally as Common Core.
State Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, disclosed he is gay at a news conference Wednesday, saying the furor over Senate Bill 1062 prompted his decision to go public.
President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday he still wants the federal government to sell its ownership stake in the nation’s largest federal utility, the Tennessee Valley Authority.