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A proposal to create the Roosevelt Scholars Program -- sort of a civilian ROTC program to encourage college students to pursue careers in government through scholarships and stipends -- has been introduced in the Senate by George Voinovich, R-Ohio, and Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y. Congress has twice stalled on the legislation, which would give up to ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee issued the following news release: Sens.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is renewing New Mexico Airlines' contract to provide commercial air service to Alamogordo.

WASHINGTON a ' Here's a look at how area members of Congress voted over the previous week.

The Senate is poised to approve today the start of a historic debate over health care legislation aimed at making coverage easier, less expensive to obtain and harder to lose.

Senator Jeff Bingaman remembered the life of the late Bruce King in a speech on the Senate floor yesterday.

Federal money to Western New Mexico University will also benefit the school's Deming campus at Mimbres Valley Learning Center.

Washington - U.S. Senator John Barrasso, and Senator Jeff Bingaman, , have introduced a bi-partisan bill focusing on clean air technology.

Senators, including the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, are pushing legislation aimed at spurring a revival in nuclear power plant construction.

Montana, N.M. senators' bill on open space funding a good idea Montana Sen. Max Baucus and New Mexico Sen.

Prosecutors say a woman already accused in the hot-car death of her 17-month-old son while she was at work has been indicted on a felony murder charge.

Exelon CEO John Rowe was shopping with his wife in San Francisco when Rahm Emanuel e-mailed. Global warming legislation was due for a vote the next day in the U.S. House of Representatives , and Emanuel wanted Rowe to call several uncommitted Democrats .

Sen. Jeff Bingaman issued a statement in remembrance of former Gov. Bruce King, who died Friday, Nov.

New Mexico communities have received $1 million in federal grants to improve distance learning and telemedicine.

There's an audacious move afoot in Congress: Not just fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, but actually use all $900 million to help improve local, state, and national parks and recreation opportunities.

Senate Democratic leaders are looking to wrap up work on the fiscal 2010 $133.9 billion Military Construction-VA Appropriations bill on Tuesday, ahead of the Veterans Day holiday.

New Mexico tour companies, including those in Santa Fe, might have to increase their liability insurance coverage at the order of a state agency, an expense that sharply increases operating costs and may force at least one local operator to close her company.

A broad group of electric generation and transmission companies, municipal utilities, electric cooperatives and environmental groups wrote to Senate leaders Nov.

Legislation extending unemployment compensation has passed the U.S. Senate. If the bill becomes law, benefits will be provided for an additional 14 weeks to jobless workers nationwide; 20 weeks to those in states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher.

You may recall that GOP Senators have been on a mission to delay or quash legislation to extend unemployment benefits to those suffering in a struggling economy characterized by continuing job losses.