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Today is Pi Day. The Greek letter Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and is rounded to 3.14. Many teachers and schools plan events around 3/14 to engage students in math and science activities. This week the House approved H.Res.

Today, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Hoyer and Appropriations Chairman Obey announced two new additional measures to the committee's earmarking process:

By lifting the executive ban on federal funding for stem cell research, President Obama has given hope, and potentially health, to millions. Every family in America is just one diagnosis, one phone call, or one accident away from needing the benefits of embryonic stem cell research.

Today President Obama has also restored science to its rightful place in our national debates.

America's workers are facing record job losses and home foreclosures since the recession began in December 2007, but after years of economic mismanagement by the Bush Administration, help is on the way.

Today, the Labor Department released statistics showing that 651,000 American jobs were lost in the month of February, with the unemployment rate rising to 8.1 percent, the worst since December 1983.

Today, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, held the first in a series of hearings to examine how to improve the ability of the government to prevent private sector activities from putting at risk the stability of the U.S. economy.

By a vote of 234 to 191, the House has passed the Helping Families Save their Homes Act (HR 1106). Before final passage, Chairman Barney Frank argues against the Republican Motion to Recommit which would have weakened the bill if agreed to:

Speaker Pelosi on passage: