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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)

In a shocking development Thursday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) triggered a rarely used procedural option informally called the “nuclear option” to change the Senate rules. (more)

A new poll from Roanoke College in Virginia shows the Senate race in the Old Dominion is in a statistical dead heat. Republican candidate George Allen has a slight 42–39 lead over Democrat Tim Kaine. Nineteen percent are still undecided. (more)

A federal appeals panel took nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis off a New Jersey state Senate ballot Thursday, finding he does not meet the state’s four-year residency requirement after all. (more)

One takeaway from last week’s special election in New York’s heavily Jewish Ninth Congressional District is the idea that President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are losing the support of the Jewish community as they head into the 2012 election season. New York Times columnist David Brooks, however, cautions against jumping to the wrong conclusion. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren officially launched her Democratic campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday by greeting commuters at a rail station in Boston before embarking on a tour of the state. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress gave President Barack Obama’s drive to promote jobs growth a boost Thursday by presenting him with a major overhaul of the patent system that the president has sought as a means to spur innovation and put more people back to work. (more)

BREAKING UPDATE: President Obama has signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 into law. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Emergency legislation to allow the government to borrow more money headed toward passage in the Senate Tuesday with just hours to spare before the national debt bumps against its ceiling. Expected approval sends the bill to President Barack Obama, averting a potentially disastrous, first-ever government default and making a down payment toward taming out-of-control budget deficits. (more)

Harry Reid has really been working hard on this whole “raise the debt ceiling before the world ends” thing. The guy deserves a break, and he’s gonna get one. (more)

Marco Rubio arrived in Congress less than a year ago, but the voice of Florida’s junior senator is already being heard loud and clear in the growing push for smaller government and the fight to defend American values. (more)

It has been 800 days since the Senate has passed a budget. And Democrats on the Budget Committee have yet to publicly release their proposal for the next fiscal year, missing their statutory deadline by months. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on the Senate floor Thursday morning that the legislative body would cut short its July 4th recess to continue working on a budget deal. While the Senate would normally take the entire holiday week off, members will return the evening of July 5. (more)

Marco Rubio quickly glanced at several papers handed to him by an aide as he sat in a wooden chair in a small television studio in the U.S. Capitol complex. (more)