Mike Johanns

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel has voted to approve the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary. The Armed Services Committee voted 14-11 to send the nomination to the full Senate. Tuesday's vote broke...

WASHINGTON -- After a sometimes contentious debate, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted on party lines and narrowly approved the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of Defense, moving the bitter fight over President Obama’s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican questioned the former GOP senator's truthfulness...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tim Johnson, John Thune, Mike Johanns from Nebraska, and U.S. Representative Kristi Noem, along with South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard,  and representatives of the Save the VA Group will meet with Veterans...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't even begun his second term, yet already he has been ensnared by scandal. Republicans have uncovered a shocking level of wrongdoing in the Oval Office, and I'm afraid what they say is true: The president is brazenly...

DES MOINES, Iowa - Midwest ranchers have never been enamored with environmental regulators, but they really began to complain after learning federal inspectors were flying over their land to look for problems. The Environmental Protection Agency flies...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday completed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that cuts farm subsidies and land conservation spending by about $2 billion a year but largely protects sugar growers and some 46 million food stamp...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski isn't up for election until 2016, but that's not stopping the American Chemistry Council from buying lots of commercial airtime on TV and radio stations in Anchorage, airing a pro-Murkowski political advertisement hundreds of times....

 WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 firm run by one of their former colleagues.    Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the chairman of the...

There is no war on Christmas in the U.S. Senate. Sixty senators were exchanging gifts and good cheer – we hope – at a Secret Santa party just off the Senate floor tonight. The bipartisan fete was hosted by Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and...

  Disclaimer: This news release is a statement provided by the elected official’s office.  Continuing his efforts to repeal burdensome, costly and ridiculous regulations, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) signed on as a co-sponsor this week to a...

 WASHINGTON (AP) — The EPA is trying to put to rest what it calls a ‘‘myth’’ that it is going to crack down on farm dust.     In letters to two senators last week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency won’t...