Oil prices were erratic near $94 a barrel Friday as investors waited to see if a reworked $700 billion bailout package would pass the U.S. Congress and help stabilize the economy of the world's biggest crude consumer.
Asian and Pacific stock markets followed Wall Street lower Friday as nervous investors sought safer investments ahead of a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a revised $700 billion bank rescue plan intended to bolster the ailing financial system.
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday by 74 votes to 25 to approve a $700 billion economic bailout plan. The proposals would allow Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy "toxic debts" from banking institutions to allow them to resume borrowing normally. But the plan still requires approval in the House of Representatives, which rejected a previous version of the bill on Monday.
Asian and Pacific stock markets dropped Thursday despite the U.S. Senate's approval of a modified $700 billion bank rescue plan intended to bolster the ailing financial system.
Asian and Pacific stock markets dropped in early trading Thursday as the U.S. Senate approved a $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street.
McCain and Obama's loony reappearance in the Senate last week got a doctor thinking: Do we really need employees we don't miss when they're not around?
John McCain accused Barack Obama of compiling "the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate" Friday night as the two rivals clashed over taxes, spending, the war in Iraq and more in an intense first debate of the White House campaign. "Mostly that's just me opposing George Bush's wrong-headed policies," shot back the Democrat.
The embattled Alaska Senator faces a corruption trial this week; a look back at his storied career
The political future of one of the powerhouses of the U.S. Senate will most likely rest in the hands of a Washington jury that will begin hearing the corruption case against him Thursday morning.
Is there a score higher than an A+? I have heard about a hundred speeches by Sen. Hillary Clinton. Tuesday night's speech in Denver was a clarion call filled with power and grace.
Oil prices were erratic near $94 a barrel Friday as investors waited to see if a reworked $700 billion bailout package would pass the U.S. Congress and help stabilize the economy of the world's biggest crude consumer.
Asian and Pacific stock markets followed Wall Street lower Friday as nervous investors sought safer investments ahead of a vote by the U.S. House of Representatives on a revised $700 billion bank rescue plan intended to bolster the ailing financial system.
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday by 74 votes to 25 to approve a $700 billion economic bailout plan. The proposals would allow Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy "toxic debts" from banking institutions to allow them to resume borrowing normally. But the plan still requires approval in the House of Representatives, which rejected a previous version of the bill on Monday.
Asian and Pacific stock markets dropped Thursday despite the U.S. Senate's approval of a modified $700 billion bank rescue plan intended to bolster the ailing financial system.
Asian and Pacific stock markets dropped in early trading Thursday as the U.S. Senate approved a $700 billion bailout package for Wall Street.
McCain and Obama's loony reappearance in the Senate last week got a doctor thinking: Do we really need employees we don't miss when they're not around?
John McCain accused Barack Obama of compiling "the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate" Friday night as the two rivals clashed over taxes, spending, the war in Iraq and more in an intense first debate of the White House campaign. "Mostly that's just me opposing George Bush's wrong-headed policies," shot back the Democrat.
The embattled Alaska Senator faces a corruption trial this week; a look back at his storied career
The political future of one of the powerhouses of the U.S. Senate will most likely rest in the hands of a Washington jury that will begin hearing the corruption case against him Thursday morning.
Is there a score higher than an A+? I have heard about a hundred speeches by Sen. Hillary Clinton. Tuesday night's speech in Denver was a clarion call filled with power and grace.
The "Lion of the Senate" vows to be there for Barak Obama's inauguration
As if Sen. Ted Stevens didn't have enough problems, Sen. Barack Obama might add to them.
Sen. Ted Stevens, indicted Tuesday on seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial disclosure forms, has a long history in the Senate.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the "two oil men in the White House," President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon.
The former senator, dead at 86, was a voice of conservative dissent, but his campaigning skills were formidable
Now 67 and living in northeastern Kentucky, the man who played Billy Bear in "48 Hours" and was killed by an alien in "Predator" admits his action-movie days are behind him
After wrapping up the longest presidential primary campaign in modern history, Sen. Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that she is ready to turn her attention back to being the junior senator from New York.
An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday.
An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor.
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday.
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly shot down an effort Thursday night to ban "earmark" spending for one year -- quashing an effort backed by all three senators seeking the presidency.
The House on Thursday quickly passed a Senate-approved economic stimulus package and sent the bill to the president's desk for his signature.
The U.S. Senate was called to order for 11 seconds on Wednesday as the last political scuffle of the year between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress played out.
The House of Representatives approved another $70 billion in war spending on Wednesday, capping a year of frustration for Democrats who took control of Congress on pledges to end the war in Iraq.
A congressional panel turned the spotlight on what has been called "unfair" practices of credit card issuers yesterday. This is part of a broader regulatory effort to crack down on credit card practices that are deemed unfair to customers. Here's how you can fight back against rising interest rate fees.
Some fellow Republicans are peeved that Sen. Larry Craig has decided to complete his term despite his earlier announcement about resigning, but the Idaho lawmaker still has his backers.
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate Thursday with a new campaign Web site and a YouTube video.
A Senate committee approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be financed through higher tobacco taxes
Back in power, the Democrats are discovering that role reversal in the House isn't all it's cracked up to be
As compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
A Democratic governor picks a Republican for the Senate, with everyone's eyes on 2008
The Senate, working on a massive energy bill, approved a compromise Thursday that would raise vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, for the first time in 30 years, to 35 miles per gallon by 2020.
As compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
A "grand compromise" immigration bill suffered a major setback in the U.S. Senate this week.
There are times when reason carries the mind no further, when the mind is carried from the rational across the penumbra of the absurd. That is where the leadership of the U.S. Senate now resides.
A day after Senate Democrats and a leading Republican reached agreement on a resolution "disagreeing" with the president's new Iraq strategy, Bush allies scrambled Thursday to prevent more Republican defections.
Signs that there could be a prolonged legal battle to determine control of the U.S. Senate, following Democratic capture of the House, could help send stocks lower when markets open Wednesday.
Signs that there could be a prolonged legal battle to determine control of the U.S. Senate, following Democratic capture of the House, could help send stocks lower when markets open Wednesday.
Two Presbyterian ministers were among 71 people arrested during a series of peaceful protests against the Iraq war Tuesday, said a spokeswoman for a group participating in the protests.
A governor, two House members, 17 state legislators in Pennsylvania, a U.S. senator -- maybe two.
On June 7, the U.S. Senate voted for a second time on an amendment to define marriage in the U.S. Constitution as being exclusively between one man and one woman.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are set to take action on legislation that could determine the financial and social fate of nearly every American for the next 20 years.
Lloyd Bentsen, a former congressman, senator and treasury secretary, is dead, his family told CNN on Tuesday.
Considering that Vice President Dick Cheney had come a long way to help Florida Congressman Ric Keller raise $250,000 last week, the reception he got in the Sunshine State could have been a bit warmer. After extolling Cheney as "one of the most effective Vice Presidents in the history of the U.S.," Keller launched into all the times he had recently opposed the Bush Administration, including the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage operations at several U.S. ports. And then Keller went right for the punch line: "'Don't be too hasty,'" he claimed the Vice President had pleaded with him. "'Let's go hunting. We'll talk about it.'"
The U.S. Senate on Thursday narrowly passed a $2.8 trillion election-year budget that would continue a string of huge deficits while also rejecting some of President George W. Bush's domestic spending priorities.
Republicans supporting tough border security legislation are stepping up their attacks on the Bush administration's guest worker proposals. These Republicans fear that senators tied to big business interests will succeed in their efforts to make guest worker provisions into law.
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott announced Tuesday that he will seek a fourth term to the U.S. Senate.
Trent Lott within the next week plans to decide between seeking a fourth term in the U.S. Senate from Mississippi or retiring from public life. That could determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate in next year's elections. For the longer range, Lott's retirement and replacement could signal that Southern political realignment has peaked and now is receding.
Trent Lott within the next week plans to decide between seeking a fourth term in the U.S. Senate from Mississippi or retiring from public life. That could determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate in next year's elections. For the longer range, Lott's retirement and replacement could signal that Southern political realignment has peaked and now is receding.
Jeanine Pirro, the longtime prosecutor who had been set to run against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, has decided to drop out of the U.S. Senate race in New York, she announced Wednesday.
President Bush defended using government wiretaps without court authorization to monitor terrorism suspects and urged the Senate to renew the USA Patriot Act during his year-end news conference Monday.
The Senate has demanded regular reports on the progress of the war in Iraq but rejected a Democratic plan to require the Bush administration to lay out a timeline for a U.S. withdrawal.
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee lambasted President Bush and congressional Republicans on Saturday for finding "time for special interests, but not an extra day or an hour for our troops."
The U.S. Senate Thursday night approved a free trade pact with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.
The Senate, fresh from a compromise on judicial nominees, is set to test whether that same bipartisan spirit will extend to a broad energy bill, slated to go to the Senate Tuesday for debate.
After hours of heated debate over President Bush's nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Senate Republicans late Thursday failed in their bid to cut off debate over the nomination -- prompting Majority Leader Bill Frist to lampoon Democrats for engaging in "another period of obstruction."
The Senate approved Priscilla Owen on Wednesday for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, more than four years after President Bush first nominated her.
The looming Senate showdown over filibustered judicial nominees has been averted by a bipartisan agreement that gives both sides some -- but not all -- of what they wanted.
Senators spar over tradition, and with one another, in a largely generational row over the filibuster
Mavericks have rights in the United States Senate. This week, they got something else -- the political Play of the Week.
A U.S. Senate committee probing the defunct U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq alleges that two politicians from Britain and France received millions of dollars worth of oil allocations from Saddam Hussein's regime.
Conservative Christian leaders used a nationally televised rally Sunday night to urge an end to Democratic filibusters against several of President Bush's nominees for federal judgeships.
Less than 18 hours before Terri Schiavo was scheduled to have her life-sustaining feeding tube removed, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal by her parents to stop the procedure.
Big business has been winning big in Washington this year -- including the biggest prize of all.
This White House doesn't fool around. Now the strengthened Republican majority in Congress is saying, "Neither do we."
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While most eyes are focused on the White House, this election is also likely to herald major changes on Capitol Hill.
Although the broader market took a hit Thursday, tech stocks remained slightly above breakeven, partly helped by gains in the chip sector.
As Republicans head to New York to rally the party, The Inside Edge looks at what the convention might mean for President Bush's chances in the fall. We'll also tell you what a few state ballot initiatives might mean for his opponent John Kerry.
The chairman of the 9/11 commission told a Senate hearing Friday that the panel's proposals to restructure the intelligence community are only part of what is needed to improve security.
U.S. Senate hearings about national security reforms recommended by a commission report on the September 11, 2001, attacks were moved up to Friday, a Senate committee spokeswoman said Tuesday.
President Bush says he is "disappointed" that a move to effectively ban same-sex marriage was "temporarily blocked" in the Senate, and he is urging the House to take up the matter.
Efforts to pass a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban same-sex marriage failed in the Senate Wednesday afternoon, but supporters vowed to keep fighting for the measure.
The politically charged issue of same-sex marriage took center stage in the Senate on Monday as debate continued on whether to amend the U.S. Constitution to forbid gay or lesbian couples from marrying.
In a highly critical report issued Friday, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee found that the CIA's prewar estimates of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were overstated and unsupported by intelligence.
The rough-and-tumble of the presidential campaign spilled onto the Senate floor Wednesday in an unusually sharp and personal exchange over military service during the Vietnam War.
A new milestone was reached Thursday in the U.S. Senate, when Sen. Robert Byrd -- already the record holder for casting the most ballots in the Senate -- voted for the 17,000th time.
This week in The Inside Edge, discover the Democrats' new secret weapon, learn why the presidential election may be heading in a different direction than polls may suggest, tune in to a future foreign policy hotspot and look for the return of the GOP's 007.
Treasury prices rose Friday, boosted by a steep drop in a U.S. consumer sentiment reading and a safety bid spurred by brief evacuations of a New Jersey postal facility and two U.S. Senate office buildings.
U.S. stocks closed barely changed Tuesday, after see-sawing on both sides of breakeven throughout the session as investors took in the discovery of a poisonous substance in a U.S. Senate mail room and looked to Cisco's earnings, released just after the close
Reports that a deadly poison was found in a U.S. Senate office building distracted investors early Tuesday, keeping stocks near the unchanged line, despite the release of some strong earnings reports.
The first order of business Tuesday when the U.S. Senate returns from recess could set the tone for how well Republicans and Democrats will work together on legislation this election year.
Rep. Katherine Harris announced on Friday that she would not run for the U.S. Senate in Florida this year, but left no doubt that she expects to run in the future.
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The U.S. Senate's failure to pass a defense authorization bill in August is widely and properly viewed as a policy disaster. On the brighter side, the debate leading up to the disaster makes great ...
AT&T and the seven regional phone companies are squabbling over whether the kids, on their own since the breakup, should be allowed into other businesses. Specifically, the Baby Bells want permissi...
Your servant instantly winced upon turning to the recent indictment of U.S. District Judge Robert F. Collins of Louisiana, as he happened to open this document at the place where the grand jury was...
Between now and Nov. 6, the legislators running for re-election to Congress will be making self-serving campaign speeches, shaking hands, making self- serving campaign speeches, kissing babies, mak...
June 2: Complete gavel-to-gavel cable TV coverage of U.S. Senate floor debates will begin on a six-week trial basis. Early June: The Senate begins debate on tax reform (see Politics & Policy).
It is not much of a secret that the U.S. Senate is in serious trouble. Designed by the country's founders to be a parliamentary body of unique distinction, one in which fundamental questions would ...
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