Tag: Senate

The bill funds 29 Army Corps of Engineers projects worth $4.5 billion that lawmakers already have authorized and would spend another $4.8 billion on water infrastructure updates throughout the country. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Energy and Environment

Senate passes $9 billion bill for water projects

Kyle Feldscher · September 15, 2016 3:56 pm

Although the administration opposes a central storage site being built at Yucca Mountain, Ernest Moniz is heading an effort to find an interim storage facility to move the waste being stored at power plants. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Moniz: Nuclear dump needed for Obama’s climate goals

John Siciliano · September 14, 2016 10:33 pm

The bill offered Wednesday would waive a penalty for Obamacare customers finding a healthcare plan that is not on one of the law's exchanges, and would give people that option for a year. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

GOP offers cure for failing Obamacare exchanges

Robert King · September 14, 2016 8:37 pm

Carbon emissions from Vermont's electricity sector rose 5 percent after it closed its nuclear plant. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Alexander: Sanders’ state increased carbon pollution

John Siciliano · September 14, 2016 8:19 pm

Alexander explained the important difference between federal regulations and guidance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

GOP senator says states should sue the federal gov’t if this happens

Jason Russell · September 13, 2016 7:49 pm

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch is demanding that Treasury Department's Inspector General explain why $1.3 billion left the U.S. Judgment Fund in January, and whether those payments were used for or related to the Iran settlement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Hatch demands answers on the ‘$99,999,999.99’ payments

Kelly Cohen · September 13, 2016 6:00 pm

In addition, the bill contains billions of dollars in drinking water infrastructure spending. Included in that funding is a $220 million deal for Flint, Mich., and cities like it that have contaminated water supplies. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio File)

Energy and Environment

Senate moves closer to passing $9 billion water bill

Kyle Feldscher · September 12, 2016 10:56 pm

While CMS has made progress on fighting "pay and chase," the agency relies "too heavily on investigating claims after the payments have been made rather than preventing them in the first place," the letter to acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt reads. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP: Medicare fraud rampant

Robert King · September 12, 2016 4:31 pm

"[John King's] proposed regulation would give Washington, D.C., control over state and local education dollars that it has never had before," Lamar Alexander said. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Fight brewing over proposed Dept. of Ed. rule

Jason Russell · September 7, 2016 12:00 pm

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., a major leader of the House effort, and top Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee (above), are in talks with the White House and top Democrats Rep. Frank Pallone, R-N.J. and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., on "ways to pass the 21st Century Cures legislation in September," said a Senate committee aide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators eye September goal for cures bill

Robert King · September 5, 2016 4:01 am

Democrats Begin Retreat from Ohio Senate Race?

John McCormack · August 30, 2016 4:33 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander uses healthcare law to stress the need for Republicans to keep control of the Senate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP senator bemoans ‘total collapse’ of Obamacare

Robert King · August 27, 2016 10:00 am