REPUBLICANS PUSH FOR ENERGY BILL
Sen. Larry Craig, R-Id., discusses the importance of the energy bill working it's way through the Senate during a news conference on June 22, 2005, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The bill is a major goal of the Bush administration and the Senate Republican leadership is pushing hard to finish the bill soon. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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The frivolity of summer was slipping away: Fears were growing National Security Agency surveillance program was nipping away at civil liberties, unrest was roiling the black community following the Zimmerman verdict in Florida and Republicans and Democrats were again sniping over the federal budget and debt ceiling.
As a U.S. senator, President Barack Obama opposed the type of mass collection of phone records his administration is conducting, political observers say.
A federal judge Thursday refused to dismiss the Federal Election Commission complaint against former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho.
Republican Idaho Lt. Gov. Jim Risch was poised to beat out Democratic former Rep. Larry LaRocco in the state's U.S. Senate race Tuesday, early results showed .
A minor league baseball team in Minnesota plans to turn a politician's humiliation into a box-office draw, handing out "bobblefoot" promotional items to fans.
Well-heeled Republican senators have not contributed to fundraising efforts of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, federal reports said.
Three Republican U.S. senators are blocking confirmation of President George W. Bush's nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee said Wednesday Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, acted improperly in a 2007 police sex sting in a Minneapolis airport restroom.
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, say the police officer who arrested him in a gay-sex bathroom sting at the Minneapolis airport entrapped Craig.
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