WASHINGTON, March 12 (UPI) -- Anti-war protesters temporarily halted proceedings on the U.S. Senate floor Wednesday by yelling slogans that interrupted budget resolution debate.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate passed a defense authorization bill Monday that included a boost in funding for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Sen. Harry Reid, who is set to become U.S. Senate majority leader, announced Tuesday the Senate Democratic leadership for the 110th U.S. Congress.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- In a week in which the Child Online Protection Act is back in the news, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, used a committee hearing Thursday to fire a warning toward t

LIBERTY HILL, Texas, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- A clash between property rights and government ecology plans has been avoided by programs that compensate landowners for conservation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said the devastation wreaked by U.S. Gulf Coast hurricanes has shown the true strength of the people of the United States.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Medicaid spending has doubled in 10 years to more than $300 billion annually and analysts predict total program spending, which now goes to provide healthcare services to 46 million of America's poorest people, will continue to outpace the economy in the

WASHINGTON, May 13 (UPI) -- Proposals to help the nation's 43.6 million people without health coverage popped up throughout Washington during Cover the Uninsured Week, and while ideas offered by Republicans and Democrats were consistent with party ideology they were hardly groundbre

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The House rules committee Friday afternoon sent the $395 billion Medicare prescription drug bill to the House floor.