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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on Wednesday dropped out of a U.S. Senate race to spend more time with a 17-year-old daughter who is suffering from severe mental health problems and has attempted suicide in the past.
Former Silicon Valley executive Carly Fiorina announced Wednesday she is running for the chance to seize liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, depicting the three-term Democrat as a Capitol Hill do-nothing who penned novels while jobs vanished and government spending soared.
The Senate Democratic leader is indicating lawmakers may not complete health care legislation this year, missing President Barack Obama's deadline on his signature issue.
The head of the Connecticut Democrats has filed an elections complaint against Republican Linda McMahon and her family's wrestling empire, claiming the company illegally helped her U.S. Senate campaign by removing potentially embarrassing videos from a Web site.
The Illinois Senate signed off Friday on a compromise that would establish the state's first limits on campaign donations, sending it to the governor despite Republican complaints that the bill concentrates power in the hands of a few political insiders.
If and when Congress gets around to passing a bill to overhaul the health care system, the price tag will be in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Where is all that money going to go?
Republican Gov. Charlie Crist probably wasn't worried that literally embracing President Barack Obama back in February and strongly supporting the $787 billion federal stimulus package would hurt his U.S. Senate campaign.
Down in the polls a year before the 2010 election, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd is hoping to tap into the statewide popularity of President Barack Obama.
The 68-29 roll call Thursday by which the Senate passed a defense policy bill that includes a hates crimes provision.
Sen. Daniel Inouye becomes the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history on Thursday, a landmark for the powerful lawmaker who has held a seat in Congress for as long as Hawaii has been a state.
You may think Democrats and Republicans are at odds over health care. Well, they've got nothing on House and Senate Democrats going after each other.
Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut says he raised $900,000 over the past three months for his re-election bid, and his potential Republican opponents raised and spent large sums.
Next week, the Senate Finance Committee will likely approve a bill designed to overhaul insurance, putting Congress another step closer to restructuring the nation's health care system.
The Congressional Budget Office is the non-partisan budget estimator for Congress. It calculates how much each piece of proposed legislation would cost the taxpayers.
Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Castle announced Tuesday he will run for the U.S. Senate seat Democrat Joe Biden left to become vice president.
New York Gov. David Paterson keeps sinking in the public's opinion, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is stuck in the vortex: She has to avoid getting sucked down by the governor's historic low ratings without appearing ungrateful to the man who picked her to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Senate Democrats are pushing for a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020 — deeper than what the House has passed and what President Barack Obama wants — according to a long-awaited bill that will test how serious the U.S. is about slowing global warming.
The senators who are debating Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's bill this week are trying to walk a fine line: how to cut spending on Medicare Advantage, while not alienating the seniors in their own states who are happy with the plans.
The Senate on Wednesday voted against an attempt by Republicans to keep in place a plan by the Bush administration to allow oil and gas drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
The Senate has unanimously condemned the release of the Libyan terrorist convicted in Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie and called upon Libya to apologize for celebrating his return.
Linda McMahon's wrestling empire urged young adults to vote in 2008, but the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO didn't always follow suit.
Pro wrestling executive Linda McMahon has never been shy about wading into the ring — and now she's plotting a smackdown of Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd.
Hospitals and drug makers like what they see in the early version of a health care plan that may evolve into the one that ends up on President Barack Obama's desk.
The Senate's most famous hearing room will be renamed in honor of the trio of Kennedy brothers who served in Congress' upper chamber.
George LeMieux was sworn in Thursday as Florida's newest senator, a job he is expected to hold only 16 months while his former boss, Gov. Charlie Crist, and other candidates run for the seat in next year's election.
Compromises get U.S. health bill through But passage in Senate is a tougher challenge as Republicans threaten to turn it into a mid-term election issueHad it not been for the election last week of two more Democrats to the 435-member House, and a vote for the bill by one Republican in a left-leaning New Orleans district, the President would likely have not seen the highly "compromised" Health Bill pass by the narrow margin it d …
Despite House approval, health care reform faces tough battle Narrow passage of a sweeping health care bill by the House of Representatives portends a continuing difficult fight for President Obama and fellow Democrats to get a bill through the Senate and into law.
Conservative Republican group shuns party-backed Senate candidate in Florida - On Politics - USATODAY.comIn another sign of the fracture of the Republican party, the Club for Growth, probably widely known first as an agitator in the 2004 Iowa democratic primary with a bunch of obnoxious ads about Howard Dean, has stomped its feet and stormed away to bring their own candidate for the …
Obama Presses Senate to Act Quickly on Its Health Bill - NYTimes.comThe White House, growing concerned that the Congressional timetable for passing a health care overhaul could slip into next year, is stepping up pressure on the Senate for quick action, with President Obama appearing Sunday in the Rose Garden to call on senators to "take up the …
House health bill unacceptable to many in SenateDon't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul.
The incident that grabbed international attention from Fort Hood Thursday raises once again the specter of domestic terrorism and whether it is part of a growing trend that threatens the very existence of western civilization.
The US House of Representatives has passed the historic “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” Despite nearly unanimous Republican opposition, a majority voted for H.R. 3962, the biggest expansion of health care coverage since the creation of Medicare in 1964.
Obama "absolutely confident" on Senate health bill - Yahoo! News on Yahoo! NewsThe house narrowly passed it's version of the Health Reform Bill. It now goes to the Senate. President Barack Obama stated his confidence that the Senate WOULD pass this Bill to him for signing.
Surgeons oppose Senate healthcare billIt's about time some of my colleagues are standing up to the US Congress.
Throughout this entire health care debate, and to my knowledge, conspicuously missing in either a Democratic or Republican version of the bill, is any reference to, or discussion of, dismantling, revising or eliminating the health care coverage available to our Congressional lead …
Illegal-Alien Access Remains in Health Care Bill as Floor Vote Nears | NumbersUSA - For Lower Immigration LevelsIllegal-Alien Access Remains in Health Care Bill as Floor Vote Nears Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:06 PM EST - posted Take Action, send these "free" faxes to our elected officials!
Terrorism amendment dies in SenateThe Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts—leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects.
Senate Set to Waste More MoneyThe U.S. Senate approved a $45 billion plan to expand a tax credit for first-time homebuyers, extend jobless benefits and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies.
Climate Bill Clears Senate Committee 11-1 WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee cleared its version of a climate and energy bill, despite a Republican boycott of the vote and a "no" from powerful Montana Democrat Max Baucus.
Senate blocks census US-citizenship question - Yahoo! NewsSenate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.
Letter to Reid on healthcare from former Surgeon General Koop shuts SenateA letter about healthcare reform to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) from former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop triggered a security scare that briefly shut down much of the Senate on Wednesday.
Nine Arrested Protesting Lieberman's Healthcare StanceNine protesters were arrested Thursday in a demonstration at the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to demand that he pledge to stop accepting from the health insurance industry.
I seldom think of those idiots in faux broadcasting positions be it radio, television or print.
CBO: House GOP Healthcare Plan Reduces Costs, Lowers DeficitLast night, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score of the House Republican health care plan, reporting that it will reduce healthcare premiums by up to 10 percent and lower federal budget deficits by $68 billion over the next ten years.
The existing tax credit for first-time buyers, set to expire at the end of the month, has helped boost home sales across the country.
Senate panel approves Democratic climate billEnvironment and Public Works Committee on Thursday approved a Democratic climate change bill that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
PolitiFact | Republicans gloss over the details on a study on the employer mandateJust found our Politifact has a dircet link to newsvine!! Yeah
Senate acts to extend unemployment benefits, expand home-buyer tax credit - USATODAY.comWASHINGTON — Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of peo …
The reports out on the dummy box, which sometimes sounds like the town crier on steroids after a night of heavy drinking, are saying that the bill is 2000 pages long.
Carly Fiorina Enters California Senate Race to Unseat Barbara Boxer -- Politics DailyCarly Fiorina, the former CEO of technology giant Hewlett-Packard, announced her campaign for the U.S. Senate Wednesday.
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