Interview with Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, Chair of Senate Public Works Committee

Senate Democrats tried out a new catch phrase Wednesday to sell their global warming bill: pollution reduction and investment, or PRI.

Bloomberg - Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Union-organizing elections at Delta Air Lines Inc. may be under deliberate delay by a U.S. labor board considering a change in vote-count procedures that would aid the unions, seven Republican senators said.

It's time to dump the dead-end political issues that have wasted too much time already.

The Senate Finance Committee rejected a Republican proposal to tighten restrictions on abortion under a bill to overhaul the health care system.

Despite their majority in the House, Democratic leaders trying to pass health care legislation must bridge big cracks in their ranks, especially over taxes and abortion.

There should be no restrictions on abortion coverage in the new insurance exchanges that would be created by pending health care reform bills.

Mr. Bellmon was a former Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator and a leading figure in Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign.

Women seeking political asylum in the United States based on gender-related persecution can get mired in a legal labyrinth that can leave their cases unresolved for years, according to a report being released Thursday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit group in Falls Church that works to...

AP - In a rebuff to both President Barack Obama and his former presidential opponent, Republican Sen. John McCain, the Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to kill $2.5 billion for 10 new C-17 cargo jets and devote the money to military readiness accounts.