Susan Ferrechio

Published: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

Senate Democrats on Tuesday offered a plan to soften the blow of $85 billion in sequestration budget cuts by using unspent war funding to offset the cuts, upping the political pressure on Republicans to address cuts that are already creating flight delays and other inconveniences for the public....

Susan Ferrechio

Updated: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

The fallout from the fatal bombings in Boston that federal officials said was staged by two Chechen nationals, is rippling through the debate over immigration reform now underway in the Senate despite reform supporters's insistence that the issues are unrelated. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., wrote...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

Fresh off last week's bitter battle over gun control legislation, the U.S. Senate is slated to delve into another divisive issue: legislation to tax Internet sales. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is expected to begin debate on the Marketplace Fairness Act as early as Monday with a...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday yanked from the Senate floor gun control legislation that suffered a serious setback a day earlier, pledging to revive the bill that many lawmakers have already declared dead. "Make no mistake, this debate is not over," Reid, D-Nev., said Thursday...

ADRIAN SAINZ HOLBROOK MOHR

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man charged with mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market, and on Thursday his attorney said he was surprised by his arrest and maintains he is innocent. Paul...

ANNE FLAHERTY

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pro-business legislation aimed at helping companies fend off sophisticated foreign hackers sailed through the House on Thursday despite a White House veto threat and an outcry from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups that say it leaves Americans vulnerable to spying...

CATHERINE LUCEY THOMAS BEAUMONT

Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A second campaign adviser to former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has come forward with allegations that the Minnesota congresswoman improperly paid an Iowa state senator to work on her campaign just months before last year's Iowa caucuses. Andy...

Susan Ferrechio

Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

The Senate on Wednesday voted down a bipartisan compromise measure that would have expanded the use of background checks for gun buyers, all but dooming the chances of comprehensive gun control that President Obama sought in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school....

Susan Ferrechio

Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

A letter laced with the deadly poison ricin was sent to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., but the envelope was intercepted at a mail facility outside Washington, according to officials. "Postal officials and law enforcement did an excellent job in detecting and preventing this threat...

Susan Ferrechio

Updated: Tue, Apr 16, 2013

By Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent Someone may have tried to mail a letter laced with the deadly poison ricin to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., but the envelope was intercepted at a mail facility outside Washington, D.C. "Postal officials and law enforcement...