Senator Mark Begich News

Senator Mark Begich , author of the Protecting & Preserving Social Security Act, is directing his focus on another type of cut to Social Security: Most Alaskans don't know it, but there's something called the Windfall Elimination Provision in Social Security.

Early Friday morning, Chris Birch, an assemblyman from South Anchorage, woke up and read a news story about a new idea he had for legislation to change the date of city elections.

U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Mark Begich, from Alaska, talk with Blue North Fisheries' Kenny Down, left, and Pat Burns while standing in the processing room of a 70-year-old freezer longliner that is being rebuilt.

I'm on a lot of Repug mailing lists because when I was teaching at IU, my son got his first deployment to Iraq.

A new Super PAC reported spending $98,000 for independent expenditure ads supporting Sen. Mark Begich, who is up for re-election in 2014.

Back in 2012 during Grand Bargain mania, a lot of alternative budgets were floating around.

Polls show that when it comes to the troubled health care law, Democrats should be most concerned about one of their key constituencies.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled the department's first-ever Arctic Strategy during a Nov. 22 speech in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

That's the big question as the industry braces for the International Pacific Halibut Commission's interim meeting this week in Seattle.

Treadwell, the lieutenant governor of Alaska, is running for Senate. But some have questioned whether his fundraising will be strong enough to keep pace in the primary.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , the Democratic Party chair, says Obamacare is not a liability for members of her party who are running for re-election.

As President Obama and Democrats try to salvage the reputation of the Affordable Care Act, a national Republican group will hit 12 Democrats-all running in Senate elections next year-over changes to Medicare.

William Bryk is a 58-year-old Brooklyn lawyer who's never been to Alaska-or Wyoming, or Idaho.

Many of us felt a sense of pride and admiration in scenes of the USS George Washington off the Philippine city of Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan.

Two leading Democratic legislators from Anchorage on Tuesday demanded that Congress require more disclosure of who is funneling money into congressional races.

Received this e-mail today from Senator Mark Begich regarding Medicaid Expansion in his home state of Alaska: Governor Parnell is denying health care security to as many as 40,000 Alaskans, and refusing federal funds that could create 4,000 new jobs in our state.

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As Democrats try to gain 17 seats to win a House majority and Republicans work to gain six to capture the Senate, each side faces an uphill battle.

The eminent domain controversy in Richmond, Calif., continues with several U.S. senators publicly asking housing regulators to push back at any proposal that would allow municipalities to offer principal write-downs to underwater borrowers by acquiring their mortgages through eminent domain.

In this March 6, 2013 file photo, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.