WASHINGTON -- Two years ago last May, Jim Ramstad, a veteran congressman from the suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul, paid a quiet visit to a colleague whose drug abuse -- plus a harshly publicized car crash on Capitol Hill -- had just landed him...

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Talk about going out with a win. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., has spent years fighting for legislation that would require insurance plans to treat mental health patients on par with those who have physical ailments. No more higher copays or...
Consider this: The bailout for thousands of millionaires on Wall Street took a couple of weeks to get through Congress; the bailout for millions of Americans who are mentally ill took 12 years. The halls of Congress last week resembled one of those...
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