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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke at an awards ceremony for Georgetown graduate students in the university’s public policy school.

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The Consumer Federation of America hosted its annual Food Policy Conference in Washington on Friday. 

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Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue told Congress that the backlog in disability claims will continue if Congress keeps cutting back on the agency’s budget. Disability claims have risen with the recession, and a higher number of people claiming mental illness.The Senate Finance Committee heard from the Social Security Commissioner Thursday.

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The VA provides care to about 42,000 veterans with limb loss and in FY 2011 the VA performed amputations on more than 6,000 veterans. The House Veteran’s Affairs Subcommittee on Health held a hearing examining the quality of health care service provided for veterans with amputations and prosthetics.

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The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare holds a briefing on the release of a report on women and social security. The organization, along with two other seniors’ and women’s organizations, examined the challenges facing America’s elderly women and provide proposals to modernize benefits.  

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Tennis Champion Billie Jean King spoke at the National Press Club about the U.S. Tennis Association's efforts to encourage more children to participate in tennis and embrace a healthy, active lifestyle.

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Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Justice Department has taken action in a number of Medicare fraud cases.

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U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske discusses the Obama administration's newly released National Drug Control Strategy.

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Treasury Secretary and Managing Trustee Tim Geithner and members of the Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees released a new report on the fiscal condition of Social Security and Medicare.

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Clara Barton died 100 years ago on April 12, 1912. Between 1861 and 1868, she lived in a Washington, DC boarding house and employed as many as twelve clerks in her "Missing Soldiers Office."  In 1996 the General Services Administration was preparing the building for demolition when they discovered artifacts eventually proving that this was the lost office of the founder of the American Red Cross. 

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