Day: December 14, 2009

Freshman senator gets into a heated debate with John Thune on the Senate floor Monday.

They say they won’t vote for DOD spending bill if a hike of the debt ceiling is tacked on.

A police department inspected a worker’s personal messages sent and received on a government pager.

Bayh asks Obama to veto the $446.8B bill.

Jim DeMint is putting Capitol Hill on a “Code Red” alert in an effort to stop the Senate’s health care bill.

Rejecting bipartisan criticism, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday detailed an administration human-rights approach that she called “pragmatic and agile.”

The GAO pulls back an Army award for medium-sized trucks.

As banks rushed to repay bailout money, they were in a stronger position to resist government demands that they change their practices.

The White House is encouraging Reid to eliminate the proposed Medicare expansion.

The senior allied operational commander in Afghanistan warned on Monday that the military faces stiff challenges to deploy 30,000 additional American troops on the tight schedule that President Obama has ordered.