Alan Fram

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Bill Clinton aides unhappy with Yanks’ Strawberry

Alan Fram · June 6, 2014 10:35 pm

Half the U.S. Senate urged NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to change the Washington Redskins' name, saying it is a racist slur and the time is ripe to replace it. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

50 senators to NFL: Change Redskins’ racist name

Alan Fram · May 23, 2014 1:35 pm

IRS: 318,000 fed workers owe $3.3B in back taxes

Alan Fram · May 22, 2014 10:52 pm

National Security

Senate OKs drone memo author to be federal judge

Alan Fram · May 22, 2014 2:56 pm

National Security

Senate backs judge pick who wrote drone memos

Alan Fram · May 21, 2014 9:10 pm

FILE- This April 10, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama greeted by Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., as he arrives to speak at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. A civil rights icon who is now an influential member of the House became the latest prominent Democrat on Monday to oppose one of President Barack Obama's picks to become a federal judge. A strongly worded three-paragraph statement by Lewis dealt yet another embarrassing blow to Obama and his selection of Michael Boggs to become a federal district judge in Lewis' home state of Georgia. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Influential Dem latest to oppose Obama judge pick

Alan Fram · May 19, 2014 9:10 pm

Russian political activists Nadya Tolokonnikova, center, and Maria Alyokhina, left, of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, join Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the chairman of the Helsinki Commission in seeking action to stop violations of human rights by pro-Russian militants in the Ukraine region, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. At right is Pyotr Verzilov, Nadya Tolokonnikova's husband who helped to interpret. The political activists spent more than a year behind bars for performing songs critical of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pussy Riot members tell Congress of rights abuses

Alan Fram · May 6, 2014 7:22 pm

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks bout increasing the minimum wage, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Earlier, Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat to the president on a vote that is sure to reverberate in this year's congressional elections. (AP Photo)

GOP blocks Democrats’ minimum wage try in Senate

Alan Fram · April 30, 2014 10:02 pm

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and other Democrats, urge approval for raising the minimum wage, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Front row, from left are, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Reid, Senate Appropriations Committee Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Senate Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. In the coming days, the Senate could debate a plan by Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin that would gradually lift today's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $10.10 by 2016. President Barack Obama wants to increase the hourly minimum wage as part of an election-year economic agenda focused on working families. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate GOP blocks Dems’ minimum wage boost

Alan Fram · April 30, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, greets Michael Timmons of Cumberland, Maine, after speaking at the Maine Republican Convention, Saturday, April 26, 2014, in Bangor, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine GOP senator likely ‘no’ vote on minimum wage

Alan Fram · April 29, 2014 5:48 pm

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. joins low-wage workers at a rally outside the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2014, to urge Congress to raise the minimum wage as lawmakers return to Washington following a two week hiatus. Democrats been pushing to lift the minimum wage but even if any legislation is passed in the Senate, it is certain to be ignored in the Republican-controlled House. (AP Photo)

Minimum wage approaches likely Senate rejection

Alan Fram · April 28, 2014 10:45 pm

Budget office: Wage boost would cost firms $15B

Alan Fram · April 17, 2014 6:35 pm