COLUMBIA - Republican senators from South Carolina and Geor gia have called on the Obama administration to continue funding a program to turn weapons-grade...
...bill that aims to boost children's chances of success through early intervention.The bill backed by leading Republican senators seeks to end years of static achievement in South Carolina's schools through a coordinated focus on reading in...
...000 people failed gun background checks ? yet fewer than 100 of them were prosecuted. Graham has joined other Republican senators in proposing a bill to beef up that prosecution, while cracking down on trafficking, straw sales and purchases...
...to a 2014 run for the U.S. Senate seat Saxby Chambliss is retiring from but adds that he sympathizes with the Republican senator's frustration about gridlock in Congress."I understand his frustration, I really do," said the Democrat...
...expected to be a complicated and emotional debate. The plan unveiled last week by eight leading Democratic and Republican senators did not mention same-gender partners. Many other major religious groups lobbying for reform, such as The Episcopal...
...made that ridiculous claim in a 1976 presidential debate. He never lived it down.Likewise, Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, may rue some of the things he said Thursday ? and may also regret some of his political stances...
...issue."Obviously, we're disappointed, but this is an evolving area of the law," the former Spartanburg Republican senator said. "Hacking is a relatively new phenomenon. Areas of the law have not caught up yet to the real meaning of whathacking...
...embarrassment to the Republican bill's original author in the House, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., 21 Republican senators ? nearly half ? voted against it. Several Republicans said they were unhappy that the $46 billion measure was not...
...lawsuit he filed last week over the massive security breach at the state's tax collection agency. The former Republican senator claims the company hired by the Revenue Department for computer security failed to protect taxpayers' data. The...
...state's next U.S. senator Monday, making him the only black Republican in Congress and the South's first black Republican senator since Reconstruction.Scott, 47, takes over for Jim DeMint, who announced earlier this month he would forgo...
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