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Over the past three months, the NRSC spent nearly $1M to pay Norm Coleman's legal bills and more.

Campaign volunteers and others surrounded Al Franken Wednesday, like this woman who wanted his autograph on a piece of campaign literature.

Washington, D.C. - Some growers could get payments just to keep farming the way they already are, under changes being made to a House climate bill.

In an attempt to stall the passage of the Democratic energy bill, Minority Leader John Boehner on Friday began reading the text of the 300-page Democratic amendment during his closing remarks on the bill.

Minnesotaa s delegation split along party lines when the U.S. House narrowly passed last week a landmark climate-change bill that would, for the first time, cap greenhouse gas emissions and move to establish a national carbon market.

In mid-May, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sunk to the lowest ebb of her speakership.

It would be a bureaucratic nightmare overseen by a confusing web of government agencies that would take and redistribute trillions of dollars from family budgets and workers payrolls.

A few hours after brokering a deal on the House climate bill, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, explained why compromise was necessary, how the controversial indirect land use provisions will be handled and repeatedly commented on the mutual distrust between agriculture and the EPA.

" A deal brokered by U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson appears to have given a global warming bill a fighting chance to pass the House today.

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation that will allow farmers, ranchers and forestland owners to fully participate in a market-based carbon offset program, earning income for activities they undertake to address global climate change.

With its Independence Day recess approaching, Congress ploughed ahead on climate change legislation but remained gridlocked over transportation and continued to fight over health care in so many committees it was hard to keep track.

The U.S. House debated legislation to limit greenhouse-gas emissions as lawmakers remained divided and Democratic leaders worked to rally support for one of President Barack Obama a s top domestic priorities.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson issued a statement late Tuesday reporting that an agreement with House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman had been reached regarding the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, commonly known as the "climate change" bill or "cap and trade" legislation.

The sweeping energy and climate change bill is a top priority for the Obama administration and Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat who has spent months making concessions to wary Democrats whose votes are critical for the bill to pass.

June 26, 2009, will go down as an historic moment in world's efforts to tackle climate change.

There was a deluge of calls, e-mails and faxes, but in the end congressmen representing southern Minnesota split along party lines just like those from pretty much everywhere else across the nation.

By Paul Kane and Ben Pershing House Democratic leaders said today they are increasingly confident that they have enough votes to win passage this weekend of climate change legislation, informing former vice president Al Gore that he was not needed in the Capitol to win over wavering lawmakers.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman and Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson Tuesday reached a substantive deal on energy and climate legislation that they say provides them with enough support for perhaps the most ambitious environmental bill ever to pass the House.

While the debate on climate change policy continues in Washington, Texas' agriculture industry representatives were all ears recently at the 2009 Ag Forum in Austin learning more about the potential impacts on livestock and crop production.

With SAFETEA-LU set to expire in September, Congress has been working on assembling a new authorization bill that sets new priorities for sustainability and reform.