BY Matthew Rothschild, OCTOBER 1, 2008 The Senate leadership just blew an opportunity for adequately revising the bailout bill. The Senate bill does nothing for people who need help the most: people who are facing foreclosure....
The US Senate on Wednesday opened a debate on the Indo-US nuclear deal before taking up for vote a legislation on the initiative, four days after the House of Representatives gave its nod to the landmark agreement.
The GOP's real go-to guy What Rush Limbaugh wants, he gets, when it comes to McCain's campaign. By Zev Chafets September 29, 2008 If John McCain is elected president, he will have a lot of people to thank. Improbably,...
Obama Holds His Own on Foreign Policy Monday, September 29, 2008; Page A19 September began as John McCain's month and ended as Barack Obama's. And Friday's debate eliminated McCain's best chance to deliver a knockout blow...
By Ellyn Ferguson • Press-Gazette Washington bureau • September 28, 2008 WASHINGTON – President Bush is expected to sign a massive spending bill that includes defense money for two Northeastern Wisconsin companies and...
Washington - As mortgage giant Fannie Mae continues to make headlines, Wisconsin Republicans are attempting to link Rep. Steve Kagen to the troubled lending company, accusing him of covering up a campaign contribution...
Washington - Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending...
clipped by: spirithikerclipper's remarks: American corporations pay foreign countries for rights to extract oil, gas, and minerals from within their borders. Those governments have done nothing to regulate oil company...
By Ellyn Ferguson • Post-Crescent Washington bureau • September 26, 2008 WASHINGTON — Bailout is dirty word in the Badger State. Just ask Wisconsin lawmakers who've gotten hundreds of calls, letters, e-mails and faxes —...
Friends: The Sentencing Project today released a report, Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997- 2008, that documents a reform movement over the past eleven years that has resulted in more than...