Orrin Hatch

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure from Congress, the Obama administration is backing away from a plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memo...

Today marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Healthcare Reform Bill into law. In the past year, the bill has drawn criticism and praise from Washington to Harrisburg and everywhere in between. Healthcare reform has become a major...

America's last surviving World War I veteran will be buried at a private ceremony Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery, a cemetery spokeswoman said Thursday. Frank Woodruff Buckles' remains will lie in honor in Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater on...

The Democratic-led Senate on Wednesday emphatically rejected a budget-slashing House spending bill as too draconian. It then immediately killed a rival Democratic plan that was derided by moderate Democrats as too timid in its drive to cut day-to-day...

It was probably way too much to ask, in the waning days of the lame duck session before Congress left for Christmas, to see the DREAM act passed. More the pity. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would have allowed young people...

WASHINGTON  (AP) — To hear Senate Republicans tell it, the defeat of their attempt to repeal the Democrats’ health care overhaul was really a victory of sorts on the long the march to the 2012 congressional and presidential elections. The...

May 8, 2007: Sen. Ted Stevens responds to a federal indictment of Bill Allen, head of oilfield services company VECO Corp., for allegedly bribing his son, then-state Senate President Ben Stevens, in 2002. July 18, 2007: Stevens files a report on his...

President Barack Obama has determined that a federal law that barred gay marriages was unconstitutional and told government lawyers to stop defending it, the Justice Department said on Wednesday, a major reversal that quickly angered conservatives. A U....

Jim Mora "we're talking playoffs" Yes unfortunately we are talking playoffs....again!!!!! The NCAA is setting up it's prevent defense now that the feds are asking about the lack of a playoff system in college football. Critics....Utah Senator Orrin...

A bill voted out of the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday would allow states to transfer federal unemployment insurance funds away from helping the long-term jobless and use them instead for other purposes, including tax breaks for corporations....

Even the staunchest admirers of corporate CEOs — you know, the star-struck junior executives who buy the ghost-written biographies and how-to-manage books — will have to admit that there's something downright cathartic about seeing oil company...

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...