The Senate voted Thursday to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a massive increase over the current limit and a political problem that President Barack Obama has promised to address next year. ...more

December 24, 2009

Just thought of a great example of how important one vote is. Monday at 1 a.m., the Senate voted to end the debate on its version of the health care bill. ...more

December 24, 2009

The present administration is spitting in the face of the constitution (if it had a face) by pressing the EPA to announce that they would put companies out of business causing more loss of jobs. ...more

December 20, 2009

Regarding "Federal tax credits and discredits" (Our Opinion, Nov. 23): ...more

November 30, 2009

It is a known fact that World War II made an end to the Great Depression. ...more

November 20, 2009

debt that will be passed on to our children and grandchildren. ...more

November 10, 2009

In a case being called Twittergate, a Republican Party county chairman wants to know whether state party leaders knew about a fake Twitter account set up to defame him. ...more

November 4, 2009

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Texas and Alabama get far less money every year from offshore drilling in their state waters than advocates say Florida can expect, the state's environmental chief told a House panel Wednesday. ...more

October 21, 2009

The House voted Thursday to make it a federal crime to assault people because of their sexual orientation, significantly expanding the hate crimes law enacted in the days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. ...more

October 8, 2009

U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez left Washington on Wednesday with some regrets, some accomplishments and some frustration with a process he says often puts politics ahead of policy. His farewell speech to the Senate came 16 months before his first term was to expire. His resignation leaves one Hispanic in the Senate, Robert Menendez, D-N.J. Gov. Charlie Crist picked his former chief of staff, George LeMieux, to replace Martinez. ...more

September 10, 2009