Topic: Pat Roberts

Key senators says MF Global collapse is damaging

0 . The top Democrat and Republican on a key Senate panel say Congress should look deeply into what led to the collapse of MF Global, a trading ...

Aggies At Least Offered Cuts to Supercommittee

A few notes are leftover from separate interviews Thursday with Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Ranking...
When it comes to politicians using your tax dollars to rename public properties after themselves, have you ever asked yourself, is America turning...

Senate GOP proposal on offshore drilling rejected

0 . . The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican bid to accelerate offshore drilling by requiring regulators to speed up decisions on permits ...
Coffee Creek Park is percolating once again with construction workers as the delayed Duluth Heights housing development prepares for a much-anticipated Aug. 29 grand opening. But Trimont Real Estate Advisors, an Atlanta firm that was brought in to collect on unsettled debts ...
I have to disagree with my fellow columnist Patrick Roberts when he says that Sarah Palin could never be president because of her family problems...
The National Science Board--the body that oversees the National Science Foundation--is so worried about the state of math and science education in U.S. schools that it sent President-elect Barack Obama a letter this week that lays out six ways to improve ...
Even though there has never been any evidence that humans and non-avian dinosaurs lived alongside one another (the first hominids, after all, did not evolve until about 6 million years ago), there have been many fictional stories that pit " Charles Roberts drew ...

Obama health care push clears Senate hurdle

President Barack Obama's historic drive to remake US health care this year passed " But we're not there yet," Obama said in a hastily prepared statement after Tuesday's 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee. There are still significant details ...
US farm groups, farmers split over whether climate bill would help or hurt agricultureClimate change legislation before Congress could be an economic godsend to farmers and ranchers. , said the report is incomplete and believes the USDA rushed the study to address senators ...