AP - The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. Sen. Patrick Leahy was one of the targets of the lethal anthrax-laced letters that killed five and sickened 17 in fall 2001. -- read full article
Reuters - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday
overwhelmingly approved a $612.5 billion defense spending bill
for fiscal 2009, including $70 billion for operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan. -- read full article
AP - The tough road for Jeff Beatty to unseat U.S. Sen. John Kerry began at a press conference attended by a single TV camerawoman and as many campaign staffers as reporters.
Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Congress is unlikely to pass new
legislation to overhaul financial regulations this year ``because
no one knows what to do,'' Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told
reporters today. -- read full article
CQPolitics.com - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday he would keep the chamber in pro forma session after it finishes other work for the year so it is ready to address the nation's worsening financial crisis. -- read full article
Bloomberg - Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Congress is unlikely to
pass new legislation to overhaul financial regulations this year
because ``no one knows what to do,'' Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid said today. -- read full article
AP - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate has boosted Republican chances of holding key Senate seats and denying Democrats a filibuster-proof majority next year, the GOP's Senate campaign chief said Wednesday. -- read full article
AP - The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he does not believe that Dr. Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.
AP - A top congressional Democrat asked the Justice Department Tuesday to block Mississippi's Republican governor from putting a special election for Trent Lott's old Senate seat near the bottom of the November ballot.
AP - The top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee says the Bush administration doesn't appear to have a set policy for deciding when to support private-sector bailouts. -- read full article
Politico - Earlier this month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a personal appeal to Barack Obama: Help me grow the Democrats’ Senate majority by sharing some of the $77 million you’ve got in the bank.
AP - House Republicans attacked a Democratic offshore drilling plan Friday for including a 50-mile coastal buffer that they said would leave untouched most of the 18 billion barrels of oil in waters now off-limits to energy companies. -- read full article
AP - When word surfaced this week that Gov. Brian Schweitzer suggested in a speech this summer that he influenced Montana's 2006 U.S. Senate race to help a fellow Democrat, Schweitzer apologized and said he was joking.
AP - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he sees "increasing consensus" about what to do next to tackle the country's energy problems. -- read full article
