Max Baucus

President Obama appears determined to publicly keep his distance from the congressional super-committee and its failure to put forward a deficit-reduction plan, despite Republican efforts to shift blame to his end of Pennsylvania Avenue. In his first...

As the Senate inches closer to passing a package of free trade agreements, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is taking a leadership role promoting a federal assistance program for workers and businesses adversely impacted by the agreements. In his role as......

Updated with more links and pull quotes Wool-gathering here after the Bears' victory, wondering if Hillary Clinton would have been a much different president than Barack Obama and whether it might be smart for Obama to ask her to tap......

This was predictable. No sooner had Harry Reid announced his three picks for the 12-member supercommittee - the House-Senate group that's supposed to come up with a debt deal – than interest groups went into attack mode. The liberal Campaign for...

Ask Marcia! Sun Sentinel career and workplace writer Marcia Heroux Pounds answers YOUR questions about surviving in the office, finding a job, unemployment benefits and more. To submit your question, e-mail mpounds@SunSentinel.com. Please include your...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - More than 1 million acres of land have been protected from development each year under a temporary federal tax deduction, and land trusts nationwide are hoping Congress will now make permanent the credit, which includes a...

 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 1 million acres of land have been protected from development each year under a temporary federal tax deduction, and land trusts nationwide are hoping Congress will now make permanent the credit, which includes a...

Oil company executives traveled to Washington, D.C. Thursday morning for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on whether a set of federal tax breaks for their firms should be repealed, as industry profits and gas prices both remain high. The committee...

Record high gas prices are straining Kentuckians’ wallets, squeezing family budgets, and putting pressure on struggling businesses. Beyond the strain on the family budget, these high fuel costs pose a mortal threat to the economic rebound our...

Billings, Mont. -- Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in all states.......

BILLINGS, Mont. — Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again -- this time to clamp down......

Congress failed to extend employment benefits by Nov. 30, meaning millions of Americans will stop receiving checks from the government. That could have very real consequences for the economy, a story in Wednesday's Times says. But unemployment benefits...