The jobs bill, which includes an extension to unemployment benefits among other provisions, could be passed if Democrats would be willing to pay for it with stimulus money and offset other spending, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in…
Sen. Al Franken has picked up two Republican cosponsors for his amendment to fix the credit rating industry. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are backing the bill, saying it would create an important barrier against…
Updated: Sen. Amy Klobuchar will vote in favor of a second term for Fed Chair Ben Bernanke when it comes up for a full Senate vote tomorrow. Sen. Al Franken’s office told the Minnesota Independent late…
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is giving Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” a new lease on life by helping death panels limp into 2010. According to Bachmann, “unelected bureaucracies will decide what we can and can’t get in…
Taking his opening shot in the state that hosts the nation’s earliest presidential caucus, Gov. Tim Pawlenty could hardly miss by appealing to “Heartland values” that Minnesota shares with neighboring Iowa. But other parts of his Saturday-night speech to Republicans…
U.S. Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation Thursday that would encourage states to examine untested rape kits for DNA evidence. The bill would also provide for more health workers trained to administer rape-kit exams, particularly for Native American women.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) made headlines Tuesday for blasting the co-op insurance model of health care reform as a slippery slope toward government-run health care.
“The president himself said you can imagine a cooperative meeting that definition of…
Senate Democrats negotiating health care reforms with Sen. Charles Grassley are finding out the hard way that, while boasting a reputation for reaching across the aisle, he appears hard set on supporting GOP leadership above bipartisan compromise.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was questioned on Wednesday about marriage case law in Minnesota. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, pressed Sotomayor about same-sex marriage precedent — without actually mentioning gays or…
President Obama, who took office on Jan. 20, 2009, announced today that he’s sending 4,000 more troops to to a war in Afghanistan that began on Oct. 7, 2001. And the media declared it “Obama’s war” — with help from…
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