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Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations May 21 to defend his company's tax avoidance.

Senators critical of the level of spending in the giant $955 billion farm bill are fighting for floor votes after the Memorial Day recess on deeper cuts to its subsidies payments.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions top officials of the Air Force on May 7 about how they are dealing with the controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it.

"[T]hey have to admit that Ronald Reagan's signature on the '86 amnesty act brought about Barack Obama's election," King concluded on the House floor.

In his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy, President Obama touched upon the growing military sexual assault cases, telling graduates, "We have to be determined to stop these crimes.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has threatened to sue credit reporting agencies if they don't fix problems that DeWine and some 20 other State AGs have uncovered in the course of their months-long investigation.

WASHINGTON Two senators have signed onto a bill originally introduced by Rep. Mike Turner aimed at stopping what they call an "epidemic" of sexual assault in the Armed Forces.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce-designate Penny Pritzker is a billionaire Chicago hotel and real estate mogul, and lynchpin of the Windy City's "Ladies who lunch" group that fostered Barack Obama's political career.

And here we thought Senate Republicans were sharpening their knives for Penny Pritzker , the billionaire hotel and real estate magnate nominated by President Obama to be commerce secretary.

Since introducing the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1st, Senator Warren has received an outpouring of support from students and their families, colleges and universities, and independent groups.

The sponsor of a new bill to combat sexual assault in the military pledged Thursday that her legislation would ensure that "never again will a victim have to salute an assaulter." The effort, led by Sen.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions top officials of the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.

It wasn't the most germane back-and-forth during a Senate panel's grilling of Apple's top brass over the company's offshore tax avoidance practices, but it may have been the funniest.

The president and chief executive officer of a medical equipment company invoked the Fifth Amendment at Senate hearing Wednesday, declining to answer questions about aggressive marketing tactics used to sell scooters, sleep apnea machines and other home medical supplies to Medicare recipients who may not need or want them.

Federal attention. That's what area residents who say they are dealing with the effects of growing up near nuclear contamination and radioactive waste are struggling to get .

Former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin will be in North County this week speaking at the North St.

When Kenneth Kirchoff notices that an airline passenger has failed to power off his gadget as instructed, he'll politely point out the oversight.

New legislation from Rep. Kevin Brady is welcome news to 20 state hospital associations working to eliminate a contentious hospital wage-index provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .

Today, however, the focus wasn't on a new technological breakthrough by Apple, it was on the creative ways the multinational corporation reduces its U.S. tax liability.

An elite group of federal employees is set to receive cash bonuses despite this year's automatic budget cuts, according to a report that a Senate subcommittee issued Friday.