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Senator Byron Dorgan and 12 co-sponsors introduced the Tribal Law and Order Act [press release] on Wednesday.

A partisan squabble in the Senate Wednesday threatened to sink a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators.

Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an investigation by military and National Security Agency experts, the Air ...

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Amnesty International USA applauded today's introduction of the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2008, a groundbreaking attempt to tackle the complex jurisdictional maze that allows violent crime against American ...

A bipartisan group of senators is hoping to fight high crime levels on American Indian reservations with legislation that would boost tribal law enforcement and improve coordination between federal and local ...

Legislation meant to crack down on oil speculators passed a key test vote Tuesday in the Senate.

July 22, 2008 Congressional Democrats who want to lower gas prices by curbing speculation in oil futures saw their legislation survive a key vote in the Senate Tuesday.

High fuel-consuming industries are siding with Democrats in the U.S. Senate in a debate over curbing the activities of oil speculators, observers said.

The global market for oil has, in the imagination of Washington, a mysterious quality that should occupy academic economists for a long time.

On the Spot Sen. Byron Dorgan repeatedly ducked a reporter's questions Monday on whether he would vote to lift a congressional moratorium on new offshore oil-drilling leases, a move that one poll indicates is ...

Senate Democratic leaders will try on Tuesday to move forward legislation to crack down on excessive oil speculation, which many blame for inflating prices of crude oil and gasoline.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Democrats are working on broad energy legislation that would be attached or sent as a follow-up to a bill that Democratic leaders want to move this week targeting ...

Drivers on the south side are getting a little relief from the high cost of gas.

Rep. Henry Waxman of California, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and KBR demanding details on the failures of electrical ...

A looming federal deadline that requires tribes to track and register sex offenders in their communities was both embraced and denounced by tribal leaders in a Senate hearing last week.

Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Pentagon to replace Houston-based KBR as the contractor responsible for inspecting electrical work at bases across Iraq.

Five Democratic senators called on Friday for an independent review of electrical work at U.S. bases in Iraq where more than a dozen soldiers have been electrocuted and others injured.

The Senate on Wednesday voted 80-16 to approve legislation that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at $50 billion over five years and direct $2 billion of that total to American ...

Sen. Byron Dorgan talks about how contractors hoard large amounts of cash. Sen. Dorgan says the saw a photograph of contractors standing in front a pile of $2 million.