What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON Don t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate. They ...
5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 299.0

Fort Hood is on the mend after shootings
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pvt. Joseph Foster took a bullet in the leg during the Fort Hood shooting rampage. He pauses when he s asked about the mayhem, then credits a stout heritage with bringing him through the ordeal and leaving him eager for his sc...
4.0K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 258.0

Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood. An Army major, Nidal Malik Hasan, is suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 29 others at...
0.9K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 258.0

Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky. The 220...
4.3K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 258.0

Obama picked a court quota queen
If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court. Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color,...
3.8K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 200.0

Lieberman deserves another chance
When we last left U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the one-time Democratic vice presidential candidate was playing the turncoat, campaigning for his friend, Sen. John McCain, and making disparaging remarks about his old party and its nominee, ...
1.1K - Dec. 1, 2008; scored 1000.0

Congress gears up to aid Detroit
WASHINGTON With Congress returning today to deal with an auto industry in dire financial straits, the Bush White House stressed that it supports help, but not at the expense of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue program. With the Senate r...
5.1K - Nov. 17, 2008; scored 200.0