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By Bennett Roth
Roll Call Staff


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When Comcast officials walked into a House hearing earlier this year to address their intention to acquire NBC Universal, their opponents took immediate note of the company's blue-chip support team.

by Anita Lee

A House bill to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program through September 2015 falls far short of reform the program needs for financial solvency, experts and politicians testified during a congressional subcommittee hearing Thursday.

Dorothy Height, a leading civil rights pioneer of the 1960s, died Tuesday at the age of 98, Howard University Hospital confirmed.

Hospital spokesman Ron Harris said Height died at 3:41 a.m. No cause of death was given.