WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Democrat and Republican vote-counters say U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could get at least a third of the Senate GOP vote for her confirmation.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- Christopher Hill would be an "excellent" envoy to Iraq despite several Republican senators saying otherwise, a U.S. State Department spokesman said Friday.
WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- A report released Monday by a watchdog group indicated senators' votes on last week's bankruptcy bill correlated to contributions from financial interests.
OTTAWA, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Fourteen-year NHL veteran Rob Ray is expected to be back on the ice Sunday with the Ottawa Senators.
WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- President Bush sent a signal to House Republican leaders Monday he wants them to move quickly on enacting a child tax credit for low income Americans.
WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- Five Republican senators Thursday complained that elements of the Bush administration are wrongly playing favorites among Iraqi opposition groups. They blamed the State Department for underfunding the Iraqi National Congress and said the United States sho
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Nevada's two senators have urged a government investigation into quality assurance at the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Senators Harry Reid, a Democrat, and John Ensign, a Republican, said Tuesday they were concerned about reports that
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Veteran Alaska Sen. Frank Murkowski is another step closer to a new job. Murkowski easily won the Republican nomination for governor Tuesday night while fellow GOP Sen. Ted Stevens coasted to the party's nomination for another term on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Senators and House members from both sides of the aisle joined environmental and renewable energy groups Thursday in calling on the administration to shuffle its budget priorities for energy production and conservation. Plans for oil drilling in the Arcti
