The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year’s economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless.
Read more – msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
March 10 2010
Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
March 10th, 2010 
Tommy 
March 3 2010
Paper mogul Zuckerman won’t run for Senate
March 3rd, 2010 Tommy Real estate tycoon and newspaper publisher Mortimer Zuckerman said Tuesday that he will not enter the race for one of New York’s Senate seats.
Read more – msnbc.com: Politics
March 2 2010
Senate moves toward deal on Wall Street rules
March 2nd, 2010 Tommy Senate negotiators close in on a deal on Wall Street regulations, proposing a new entity inside the Federal Reserve to oversee consumer financial products ranging from credit cards to mortgages.
Read more – msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
March 1 2010
Senate impasse puts federal employees out of work
March 1st, 2010 Tommy Two thousand federal transportation workers will be furloughed without pay on Monday, and the Obama administration said they have a Kentucky senator to blame for it.
Read more – msnbc.com: Politics
February 24 2010
Senate votes to extend Patriot Act
February 24th, 2010 Tommy The Senate has passed a one-year extension of key provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the nation’s counterterrorism surveillance law.
Read more – msnbc.com: U.S. news
February 21 2010
Senate GOP challengers woo conservatives
February 21st, 2010 Tommy 
Marco Rubio and J.D. Hayworth have different styles and different backgrounds and they’re from opposite sides of the country. But both are hoping to win Senate seats by tapping into the energy of conservatives to defeat big-name, establishment-backed Republicans.
Read more – msnbc.com: Politics
February 21 2010
Rep. Ellsworth to run for Bayh Senate seat
February 21st, 2010 Tommy 
Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth said Friday he will run for Evan Bayh’s Indiana Senate seat
Read more – msnbc.com: Politics
February 17 2010
In blow to Democrats, Bayh to leave Senate
February 17th, 2010 Tommy 
Evan Bayh’s retirement from a Senate seat from Republican-leaning Indiana adds to the struggle Democrats will face this fall to prevent an erosion of the 59 votes they have in the chamber.
Read more – msnbc.com: U.S. news
February 10 2010
State Senate votes to expel Hiram
February 10th, 2010 NIT 
Tags: abstention, assault, boot, conviction, girlfriend, hiram monserrate, lawmaker, night, Read, Sen. Hiram Monserrate, Senate, state, state senate, Tuesday, tuesday night, vote
The state Senate voted to boot embattled Sen. Hiram Monserrate on Tuesday night, citing the lawmaker’s conviction in the assault on his girlfriend. The vote was 53 to 8 with one abstention.
December 4 2009
Senate roll call on Medicare cuts amendment (AP)
December 4th, 2009 NIT Tags: amendment, call, care, health, health care bill, Medicare, medicare cuts, Read, roll, roll call, Senate, Thursday
