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After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial-industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republican opposition softened. Senators loaded the economic-rescue...

by Mark Silva So it is the Senate that goes first with the bailout -- some call it rescue -- of the nation's bad-mortgage-clogged banking institutions, with a vote tonight of 74-25. The Senate's strong and bipartisan approval of a......

by Frank James You know those dazzling car rims called "spinners", the ones that spin even though the vehicle is at a dead stop? The U.S. Senate is the legislative version of that. Wednesday, the Senate was in full spinners......

I have read with great disappointment the Op-Ed article by Morris D. Davis, former chief prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, particularly his comments with regard to Susan Crawford, the military commissions convening authority. Since...

Senate Democrats accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite his promise last year to study whether it is illegal. The issue briefly stalled Mukasey's confirmation last fall until he...

Demonstrating yet again the potency of the immigration issue, the Senate fell short Wednesday of the 60 votes necessary to debate the Dream Act, a bill that would give young undocumented immigrants the possibility of citizenship if they were brought...

THERE IS A subject being forgotten in the 2008 Democratic race for the White House. While all the major candidates are vying for the black and Latino vote, they are completely ignoring one of the most pressing issues affecting those constituencies: the...

After years of gearing up for a titanic showdown for control of the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats did not find it yesterday in the nomination of Judge John Roberts. Republicans, meanwhile, heralded his selection as outstanding, with some of the most...

What if John G. Roberts, who is all but certain to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court, turns out, after all, to be more like moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor than conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas? That is the...

With an eye on the partisan fight ahead over the next Supreme Court vacancy, a Senate panel yesterday voted 13-5 to recommend that the full Senate confirm the nomination of John G. Roberts as chief justice. Besides the 10 Republicans on the Senate...

By the end of the week, the Senate could go nuclear - unless a handful of moderates find a way to reach what has so far been an unreachable compromise. After months of buildup, Republicans say they finally are ready to trigger the "nuclear option" to ban...

Had it not been for his fear that a faction of liberal senators might filibuster his judicial confirmation, Richard H. Poff would have been nominated to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court instead of William H. Rehnquist. A conservative Republican...