AP - The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing. -- read full article
AP - The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing. -- read full article
AFP - The US Senate on Saturday approved an elaborate housing rescue plan designed to help thousands of homeowners avert foreclosure and bolster mortgage finance giants that have struggled amid a volatile housing market.
AP - The man giving John Kerry his first Democratic primary fight since his election to the Senate more than 20 years ago proposed a series of debates Friday.
Reuters - The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to
limit debate on a bill aimed at shoring up both the housing
market and mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac, paving the way for a final vote expected on Saturday.
U.S. News & World Report - With 100-plus days until the elections, top Democrats are high on their prospects of picking up more House and Senate seats. -- read full article
Reuters - Legislation to rein in excessive
energy speculation failed a key procedural vote on Friday to
move forward in the Senate, and now lawmakers will set aside
the bill to consider other legislation.
CQPolitics.com - The Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint's new "leadership" political action committee (PAC), endorsed former Rep. Bob Schaffer on Thursday as he tries to keep the seat of retiring Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard in Republican hands. -- read full article
AP - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war's future and stop arguing over the success of last year's troop surge.
CQPolitics.com - This Sunday will mark exactly 100 days until Election Day on Nov. 4 -- a political milestone of sorts that gave the leaders of the campaign organizations of House and Senate Democrats a pretext Wednesday to put an optimistic face on their prospects. -- read full article
AP - Most lawmakers dream of getting their names linked to legislation. That won't be so when the Senate takes up what is unofficially being called the "Coburn Omnibus." -- read full article
AP - A Republican state senator is being criticized for a post on his blog that shows photos of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden wearing similar clothing, along with a line that says the difference between them is "a little B.S." -- read full article
AFP - Republican White House hopeful John McCain said Friday that his Democratic rival Barack Obama is further to the left than the only Socialist US senator.
