WASHINGTON (AP) — A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government’s ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth. (more)
It was just a regular Tuesday in the Kentucky state legislature — and then a penguin pooped on the state Senate chamber’s floor. (more)
When President Barack Obama strides into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to deliver his fourth State of the Union address, it will mark exactly 1,000 days since the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate has passed a budget. (more)
Around kitchen and boardroom tables across the state, Michigan families and businesses are figuring out their budgets for the year, deciding where to cut, where to grow and what should stay the same. Unlike these responsible Americans, Debbie Stabenow and Senate Democrats have decided to fly blind. In fact, today marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats passed a budget. (more)
Mark Kirk, the freshman Republican senator from Illinois who won the special election for President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat in 2010, suffered a stroke on Monday morning and was admitted to a hospital in Chicago to undergo surgery, The Daily Caller has confirmed. Kirk’s Washington, D.C. office also confirmed to TheDC that the surgery was successful. (more)
Tuesday, the day that President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union address, also marks the 1,000th day since Senate Democrats last proposed a budget plan. (more)
In response to President Barack Obama’s recess appointments, made while the Senate was in a pro forma session, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson of Connecticut told The Daily Caller that he would “prefer everything happen in regular order.” The president, though, was justified in his actions, he said, since Republicans have been blocking his appointees. (more)
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addressed Saturday night one of the most nagging concerns about his presidential candidacy: his 2006 Senate re-election loss. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders agreed on compromise legislation Friday night to extend Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months while requiring President Barack Obama to accept Republican demands for a swift decision on the fate of an oil pipeline that promises thousands of jobs. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle over the future of a new financial watchdog office escalated Thursday with Senate Republicans blocking confirmation of the man President Barack Obama named to head the office and Obama countering by holding out the possibility of appointing the nominee when Congress is on recess. (more)
Attorney General Eric Holder flip-flopped his Operation Fast and Furious testimony during a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. During a May 3 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Holder told Congressional investigators at least twice that he had only learned of the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program a “few weeks” beforehand. But testifying Tuesday, Holder’s timeline changed. (more)
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry was for the Congressional Review Act before he was against it. The senator called upon his colleagues Friday to resist the very same congressional measure he advocated use of in 2003 against the Federal Communications Commission. (more)
The Daily Caller asked Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama a series of questions about President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill and the GOP presidential candidates. (more)
WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats introduced a measure Friday offering tax breaks for companies that hire veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the third piece of stand-alone legislation based on elements of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill. (more)
Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday that a Senate vote to overturn the FCC’s net neutrality rules might come as early as next week. The vote would happen just days ahead of November 20, when the rules are scheduled to take effect. (more)
Members of Congress had a collective net worth of more than $2 billion in 2010, a nearly 25 percent increase over the 2008 total, according to a Roll Call analysis of Members’ financial disclosure forms. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate on Friday unveiled the next piece of his failed $447 billion jobs measure to get a vote in the Senate: a $60 billion investment in infrastructure projects such as roads and bridges. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed “Operation Fast and Furious” aimed at breaking up networks running guns to Mexican drug cartels but that lost track of hundreds of the weapons, some of which were used to commit crimes in Mexico and the United States. (more)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vowed Monday to keep the Senate in session “as long as necessary” to pass $35 billion in stimulus spending included in President Obama’s American Jobs Act, and to pay for it with a new surtax on millionaires. The jobs bill itself failed last week in the Democratic-controlled Senate, which Reid leads. Reid himself voted “no.” (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday night to kill the jobs package President Barack Obama had spent weeks campaigning for across the country, a stinging loss at the hands of lawmakers opposed to stimulus-style spending and a tax increase on the very wealthy. (more)
