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Kentucky Democrat faces heat over health care, energy bill
Rep. Ben Chandler is trying to balance his support for the administration's health care overhaul with his own discomfort over proposals on how to structure and fund changes. | 08/08/09 16:03:33 By - Halimah Abdullah
After months of tension, Kentucky's Bunning steps aside
Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning announced Monday that he's ending his bid for a third term, bringing to a close a multimonth-long saga that pitted the 77-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher against a Republican leadership that sent strong signals that he should step aside for the good of the party. | 07/27/09 18:54:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Obama victory: Senate votes to kill additional F-22 funding
The Senate voted Tuesday to strip $1.75 billion in increased spending for the F-22 jet fighter following a protracted fight between the Obama administration, top Pentagon officials and a bipartisan group of lawmakers and a faction of military leaders and members of Congress whose districts benefit from the aircraft's construction. The vote to strip the money from the Defense appropriations bill was 58-40. | 07/21/09 13:14:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Kentucky's Bunning had a dismal re-election fundraising quarter
Of the four top contenders for U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning's seat, the incumbent raised the least during the second quarter of the year — just $302,467 for his re-election campaign. That was less than half raised by potential Republican challenger Trey Grayson and only a quarter of the $1.32 million raised by the state's Democratic attorney general, Jack Conway. | 07/16/09 10:53:34 By - Halimah Abdullah
Dems add long-sought hate crimes measure to Defense bill
On Tuesday, Arizona Sen. John McCain and president Barack Obama appeared to be on the same page about the defense appropriation bill — it must not contain increased spending for the F-22 jet fighter. But Wednesday, McCain was livid over Democrats' addition to the bill of a hate-crimes provision that Republicans oppose. | 07/15/09 13:27:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
McCain backs Obama on F-22 cuts, but advocates vow fight
Arizona Sen. John McCain, in an uncommon alliance with the Obama administration, is squaring off against fellow Republican and Senate Armed Services Committee colleague Saxby Chambliss of Georgia in a fight against adding $1.75 billion in funding to expand the F-22 Raptor jet fighter production line. | 07/14/09 18:49:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Lawmakers, activists battle over mountaintop removal mining
Coal industry advocates and environmentalists converged on Capitol Hill Thursday at a congressional hearing on the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian streams and rivers. | 06/25/09 19:59:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Blue Dog Democrats could play critical role in healthcare debate
The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative House Democrats who largely hail from Southern and Midwestern states, could prove critical in passage of the Obama administration's healthcare policies. | 06/22/09 11:44:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
U.S. tobacco farmers protest a Canada ban on flavorings
Kentucky burley tobacco farmers and the state's congressional delegation are protesting a plan by the Canadian government to ban fruit and bubblegum flavors and other similar additives to cigarettes and cigarillos. They say the proposal, designed to curb youth smoking, would result in a ban on American air-cured burley tobacco, which requires additives to cut its bitter taste. | 06/16/09 18:41:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
McConnell endorses Charlie Crist in GOP Senate contest
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave GOP rising star and 2010 Senate candidate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist a thumbs up. "Decisions are being made every day in Washington that have a direct impact upon the lives of all Americans and we need Charlie Crist in the U.S. Senate to ensure that those decisions will benefit the citizens of Florida,” McConnell said in a posting on Crist's Web site. | 06/12/09 16:25:01 By - Halimah Abdullah
Senators who opposed tobacco bill received top dollar from industry
Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry, which has donated millions of dollars to lawmakers in the past several campaign cycles. | 06/11/09 19:14:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Half-empty flights have some questioning federal subsidies
On most days, the main terminal at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon is virtually empty. The few people who travel on the city’s lone commercial airline, Georgia Skies, follow a sign directing passengers next door to a privately owned terminal generally used by charter planes. Once inside, those passengers use their $39 tickets to travel 81 miles on half-empty nine-seat planes to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. | 06/02/09 17:01:51 By - Halimah Abdullah
Federal grants subsidize airport, airline in congressman's hometown
Lake Cumberland Regional Airport's new $3 million, federally funded commercial terminal sat virtually empty for three years while renovations were completed and local officials struggled to persuade a carrier to provide service to rural Somerset, Ky., population about 12,000. | 05/24/09 06:00:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
McConnell said 'I couldn't win," Bunning says
Sen. Jim Bunning acknowledged Tuesday that during a meeting in December, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told him that "I was too old and I couldn't win" a re-election battle in 2010. | 05/19/09 16:04:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
Pentagon will miss chemical weapons deadline by 9 years
Though a new Pentagon proposal includes a spending increase through 2015 to build the plants at the Blue Grass Army Depot and a similar facility in Colorado, the Pentagon doesn't anticipate disposing of all of its chemical weapons until 2021 — nearly a decade beyond the 2012 deadline set by the international Chemical Weapons Convention. | 05/06/09 18:11:00 By - Halimah Abdullah
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