An agreement on a bill to provide operating authority for the Federal Aviation Administration over the next four years and to boost the agency’s air traffic modernization effort was reached Tuesday by House and Senate negotiators, culminating a five-year struggle that included a partial shutdown of the agency.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Senate Democrats are preparing to scrutinize Gov. Chris Christie’s plan to cut income taxes by 10 percent for all New Jersey residents

WASHINGTON – President Obama is pressing his case for changes in how the Senate does business, hoping to ease the partisan gridlock, and he wants to bar lawmakers from profiting from their service.

ANALYSIS | The word “Nebraska” loosely translates as “broad river” according to Netstate.com. And that’s just what the Democrats are going to have to cross if they want to hold onto the Senate, now that Nebraska Senate Democrat Ben Nelson called it quits for after a career in statewide and national …

The Senate has scheduled the first congressional hearing in the wake of the Penn State child abuse scandal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New U.S. Internet traffic rules cleared a hurdle on Thursday, surviving an attempt by the Senate to block them from taking effect later in the month.

Reuters – Fresh from defeat over their latest economic stimulus plan, Democrats in the Senate pushed ahead on Friday with another proposal to create jobs — a $60 billion infusion to rebuild aging infrastructure.

Reuters – Senate Democrats want to hit millionaires with a 5 percent surcharge on their taxes to pay for President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs program, but the plan seems to be going nowhere in the divided Congress.

Reuters – Senate Democrats want to hit millionaires with a 5 percent surcharge on their taxes to pay for President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs program, but the plan seems to be going nowhere in the divided Congress.

Reuters – Wall Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the euro zone debt crisis if U.S. stocks are to build on their best week since early July.