Lieberman, chairing the panel, cited 64 instances since 2007 of agents being accused of sexual misconduct, including one...
Interesting if true.As a retired secondary school teacher who taught 18-year-olds economics (obviously due to this...
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And what they care about is what Washington is going to do about that. My Republican opponent has made it clear what he will do – REPORTER: Members of the Cherokee nation want to know. They say you should come clean. WARREN: I have made the facts clear,... Full Article at Big Government
Macfarlane, 48, an associate professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. , wrote a book in 2006 that raised technical questions about a proposed nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Senate Majority... Full Article at AZ Central.com
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 24: Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affiars Committe member Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) listens to testimony on Capitol Hill May 24, 2012 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from experts during a hearing about the proposed... View Photo »
Last Sunday marked three years since the Senate has passed a budget ... The federal government, which spends more than $3.5 trillion a year -- much of it borrowed from outside the United States -- has no guideline for how that money is spent.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a regulatory powerhouse with sweeping influence over the foods Americans eat and the medicines they take. The bill,... Full Article at CNBC
IPO at the expense of smaller buyers. Shareholders filed a lawsuit against Facebook and the banks behind the company's stock, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, yesterday. Both the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry... Full Article at Herald Sun
New York Registered Republican Voters are just a few weeks away from a primary election. A federal republican primary will take place on June 26th, following a federal mandate, and is the first time in close to 40 years to be held in June. In Erie... Full Article at WKBW News 7 Buffalo NY
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 24: Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affiars Committe Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) (L) and ranking member Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) listen to testimony on Capitol Hill May 24, 2012 in Washington, DC. The committee heard from experts... View Photo »
It is a political move to call these people to Washington a few months before the election to complain about the pace of judicial nominees, when the Senate has been processing judicial nominees in regular order
I think we're well overdue for some real energy proposals that can give us some good clear guidance," Murkowski told Reuters. Murkowski, 55, relishes the prospect of setting the agenda on energy policy. She is in line to be chairman of the energy... Full Article at AlertNet
15 percent, with Craig James barely registering at 3 percent. The top three finishers in that poll are also the candidates who lead in putting their own personal fortunes into their campaigns. For two of them, that means millions and millions of... Full Article at WFAA
It also gives regulators new tools to combat drug counterfeiting and shortages. The legislation represents Full Article at PharmaGossip
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the Constitution (which does not use the terms "upper" and "lower"). Each U.S state is represented by two senators,... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
Last Sunday marked three years since the Senate has passed a budget ... The federal government, which spends more than $3.5 trillion a year -- much of it borrowed from outside the United States -- has no guideline for how that money is spent.
It is a political move to call these people to Washington a few months before the election to complain about the pace of judicial nominees, when the Senate has been processing judicial nominees in regular order
The issue isn’t about anything other than credibility. She doesn’t have any and it’s her own fault. We don’t need another lying politician in the US Senate
Since we don’t have candidates in statewide races other than for the U.S. Senate, we decided we want to showcase or feature our local candidates ... We’ve put together the whistle stop to allow them to maximize their campaigns and visit a lot of voters in one day.
The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, the Hart Senate Office Building, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center and 300 New Jersey Ave. NW are are glassy deathtraps for birds.
I am running for the United States Senate because I believe we have very little time to change course
The president isn't particularly doing well in a state like Montana ... But this isn't about the presidential race. This is about a U.S. Senate race in Montana.
I we would do as good a job in the United States Senate as our soldiers do in the field, we'd have a lot less problems today
she's represented New York for two terms in the U.S. Senate, has been a presidential candidate, is the secretary of state and her husband was President of the United States. I think that explains everything you need to know.
Your ability as Tim Kaine, US Senate candidate, no matter how well positioned you are, you aren't well positioned enough to dominate the agenda that the Obama campaign is going to impose on Virginia. And I assume the Romney campaign is going to try to do the same thing.
The truth about Elizabeth Warren is that she is no more deserving of a seat in the United States Senate than Martha Coakley.
America faces serious challenges, but Hoosiers’ courage and determination are unbreakable. It’s this spirit that guides me every day in the Senate
The Texas Republican candidates running for U.S. Senate expressed few policy differences while debating Thursday night, but did their best to show differences in style and experience
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate
I hope [Lugar wins] for a number of reasons but one big one: the Senate needs grown-ups. The entire American government needs grown-ups, from Capitol Hill to the White House to the executive agencies. This is no time to lose one.
trying to silence my progressive voice by destroying my 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate. They don't want me in the Senate because they know I'm not afraid to take on the powers-that-be in Washington.
trying to silence my progressive voice by destroying my 2012 campaign for the U.S. Senate. They don't want me in the Senate because they know I'm not afraid to take on the powers-that-be in Washington.
A lot of you remember: Over a year ago, we brought the DREAM Act to a vote in Congress thanks to the hard work of many of you, and it passed the House, [got] the majority of votes in the Senate ... Unfortunately, we had some on the other side of the aisle that got together and blocked it, but we didn't ...
As Attorney General, Jon Bruning is leading the fight in Nebraska against Obamacare, and I know he will use that same courageous spirit to repeal Obamacare in the halls of the U.S. Senate. We need to elect as many conservatives as possible this November who believe as strongly as Jon does that forcing A...
This is not about Democrats and Republicans or Independents. It is about us as a body showing once again--trying to reestablish that trust with the American people--that, my goodness, the Senate can do things together
We are grateful for the wonderful doctors and personnel at the RIC for their care of Mark, and to the residents of Illinois who have given him privacy and time to heal ... We also thank everyone who has shared their prayers and wishes for his return to the U.S. Senate as soon as possible.
The budget allows you to do things in the Senate with 51 votes that otherwise take 60 votes ... We need to have a majority of the Senate, but they have 53 votes, they should be able to have a budget and do whatever they can defend to the American people with the budget they can pass.
The budget allows you to do things in the Senate with 51 votes that otherwise take 60 votes ... We need to have a majority of the Senate, but they have 53 votes, they should be able to have a budget and do whatever they can defend to the American people with the budget they can pass.
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots.
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday that she listed herself as a minority in directories of law professors in the hopes of networking with other ‘people like me’ — meaning those with Native American roots
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U.S. Senate and Sudan: George Clooney made a quiet visit to a volatile border region between Sudan and South Sudan in early March ahead of the testimony he gave before a US Senate committee on Wednesday.
U.S. Senate and Syria: The statement of Senator John McCain, who lost the 2008 presidential election, on the Senate floor came as the US and European governments pleaded for Russia's Vladimir Putin to rethink his anti-interventionist stance on Syria, in what appeared to be an increasingly desperate effort for consensus among world powers to stop a crackdown that has killed more than 7,500 people.
U.S. Senate and Illinois: OUSTED Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich reports to prison today to serve a 14-year sentence for trying to auction off President Barack Obama's vacated US Senate seat and a host of other corruption charges.
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