Highlands County plans to request $29.7 million from President Obama's economic stimulus package. ...more

January 4, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama says he supports the decision by Senate Democrats to deny his vacated Senate seat to an appointee of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. ...more

December 30, 2008

A $14 billion rescue package for the nation's imperiled auto industry passed 237-170 in the House Wednesday night, but the emergency bailout was still in jeopardy from Republicans who were setting out roadblocks in the Senate. ...more

December 11, 2008

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. ...more

November 18, 2008

Hard-line opponents of an auto industry bailout branded the industry a "dinosaur" whose "day of reckoning" is near, while Democrats pledged Sunday to do their best to get Detroit a slice of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue in this week's lame-duck session of Congress. ...more

November 17, 2008

If they're smart, President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will resist as much as possible the temptation to flex their new mandate muscles. ...more

November 9, 2008

House Democrats said Monday they would not relent in their dispute with the Senate on a major tax relief package, increasing odds that businesses could lose out on critical tax breaks and millions could get hit by the alternative minimum tax this year. ...more

September 30, 2008

The House on Friday passed a plan by Democrats to pump $61 billion in government spending into the economy through public works projects, help for the jobless and money for states struggling with their Medicaid bills. ...more

September 27, 2008

Senate Democrats promised a series of votes next week on offshore oil drilling as Republicans agreed Monday to let the Senate proceed on a defense bill that had been bottled up because of partisan disputes over the country's energy priorities. ...more

September 9, 2008

What's the use of paper ballots if no one looks at them? That's the question that election watchdogs continue to press, even as the state's election supervisors race to implement the 2007 election law requiring every Florida county to vote on paper ballots. ...more

June 15, 2008