When the U.S. Senate today approves its version of a massive economic stimulus package, Republican senator Mel Martinez, like most of his Senate and Florida GOP colleagues, won't be supporting it. ...more

February 10, 2009

Most Republican governors have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care. ...more

February 1, 2009

In his radio address Saturday, President Barack Obama promised to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives, as he prepares a new road map for spending billions from the financial rescue plan. ...more

February 1, 2009

Bay area Republicans and their GOP colleagues nationally will wake up the morning after Tuesday's elections with a newly chosen president-elect and a new political landscape. ...more

November 2, 2008

Sen. Larry Craig returned to the Senate floor Tuesday for the first time since public disclosure of his guilty plea in a restroom sex sting. ...more

September 19, 2007

Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening. ...more

September 5, 2007