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Senate Republicans’ campaign arm outraised its Democratic counterpart last month for this first time this year, aided by donors including Google Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt gave $32,300 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee in April, helping it outraise the Democratic Senatorial...
Read more »The Senate is run by millionaires while Tea Party favorite Marco Rubio is still in debt. That’s some of the information gleaned today from senators’ annual personal financial disclosure forms. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, reported assets of between...
Read more »Fractures in the Republican Party were in plain view on the Senate floor today as Sens. John McCain, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz argued over the U.S. budget and debt ceiling processes. “Does my colleague from Florida believe that the...
Read more »Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican, yesterday announced his support for Penny Pritzker, the Chicago businesswoman, philanthropist and Hyatt Hotels heiress who is President Barack Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary. Kirk said he and Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, will introduce Pritzker...
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An Environmental Protection Agency contractor collects water samples for testing on May 31, 2010 near the point where the South Pass of the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico near Venice, Louisiana.
Look for some conversation in the Senate today about whether more than 100 amendments dealing with Environmental Protection Agency permitting authority are germane to the farm bill. Bloomberg BNA’s LaTrina Antoine and Amena H. Saiyid report that Democrat Kay Hagan...
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Ford trucks at a dealership in Colma, California.
The most aggressive economic stimulus in the Federal Reserve’s 100-year history has the wheels turning for Detroit automakers. Cheaper borrowing costs and rising stock portfolio values are giving Americans the confidence to make big-ticket purchases. It’s welcome news for a...
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., arrives in the Senate Reception Room before the 'Vote-A-Rama' on amendments to the budget resolution on March 22, 2013.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller isn’t seeking re-election next year, though the wealthy West Virginia Democrat is still using some of his personal fortune to help his party’s prospects in the midterm election. Rockefeller donated the maximum $32,400 to the Democratic Senatorial...
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New Jersey Sen. Barbara Buono greets supporters on Feb. 2, 2013, as she officially kicks off her campaign for New Jersey governor with a rally in New Brunswick.
Barbara Buono, the New Jersey Democrat waging a long-shot campaign to unseat Gov. Chris Christie, will launch her first television ad this week as she seeks to compete with the popular and well-funded Republican. Buono, 59, will spend over $1...
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Graduating students listen as President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address at Morehouse College on May 19, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.
By Oliver Staley Public spending per student on U.S. education fell in fiscal 2011, the first annual decline since at least 1977, as tax revenue dried up. The U.S. spent an average $10,560 per student in public schools in 2011,...
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The National Debt Clock and an estimate of the Untied States' national debt, as well as an estimate of each family's share of that amount, on Dec. 31, 2012, in New York City.
That’s the U.S. debt ceiling as of Monday, according to the Treasury Department. It’s the first number the Treasury has released since President Barack Obama signed a suspension of the limit in early February, Bloomberg’s Ian Katz and Kasia Klimasinska report....
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Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, questions a witness during a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2013. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook defended his company's use of offshore tax shelters before U.S. senators who castigated the most-valuable technology company for avoiding $9 billion and more in payments.
A small corner of hell may be freezing over. Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and fierce Obama administration critic, today opposed a bill to provide arms to Syrian rebels with an argument that could have come straight from the...
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