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U.S. Sen. John Walsh is backtracking on earlier statements suggesting post-traumatic stress disorder from his Iraq War military service played a role in why he plagiarized his masters' thesis in 2007.

A bipartisan pair of House members has introduced a bill to improve federal hiring by allowing agencies to share information on job applicants, joining several senators pushing the same reforms.

Republican Lisa Murkowski , the senior U.S. senator from Alaska, has largely remained tight-lipped about this year's race for the state's other Senate seat, currently held by Democratic Sen. Mark Begich .

LINKED VETS' GROUP GOES BIG IN IOWA: Concerned Veterans for America is launching a $2.4-million ad campaign in Iowa highlighting Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley's attendance record at House Veterans' Affairs Committee meetings, the group said today.

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Left: Dan Sullivan, a former Alaska attorney general and Natural Resources commissioner, is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.

The campaign of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mead Treadwell raised $162,000 in the second quarter of this year, slightly more than rival Joe Miller but far behind Dan Sullivan, the third major GOP candidate.

Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu will oppose her leadership's border aid package, complicating Senate Democrats' plan to pass the legislation before August recess.

U.S. Senator Jack Reed's efforts to give Rhode Island a seat at the table of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council got a major boost this week when it was included in the latest version of the Senate Commerce Committee's draft Magnuson-Stevens Act reauthorization bill.

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich , seen addressing supporters at a recent event in Juneau, has remained competitive in a heavily Republican state, which Democrats see as a hopeful sign.

July 24, 2014 - Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, wrote NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz on Wednesday to urge the agency to take credit unions' "overwhelming feedback" into account and amend its proposed risk-based capital rule.

Earlier this week Secretary Tom Perez visited facilities in Fairbanks and Southcentral Alaska.

Alaska Republicans frustrated at Outside strategies in Senate race: This fall's race for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat is Democratic incumbent Mark Begich's to lose, two Alaska Republican strategists told the British newspaper The Guardian .

President Obama speaks during a town hall meeting focusing on the importance of the My Brothers Keeper Initiative at the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington on Monday.

Fundraising plays a factor in who will serve as Senate majority leader in the next Congress.

The Alaska Democratic Party is getting a boost from a group in Washington, D.C., that's dedicated to preserving the Democrats' fragile majority in the U.S. Senate.

Staffers leaving Capitol Hill as a result of a retirement or election loss will enter one of the tightest K Street labor markets in recent memory as firms of all sizes have struggled to gin up new business and keep existing clients amid several years of anemic growth and stalled legislation.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on a radical pro-abortion bill sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal and promoted by major pro-abortion advocacy groups.