Senator Mark Begich News

Rachel Maddow ended her MSNBC show Tuesday night by reporting the news that Republican David Jolly had defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a special congressional election in Florida.

That's what Sen. Mark Begich told the joint session of the Alaska Legislature when he addressed them last week.

Deep in Alex Leary's thorough look last week at the Florida special election in the Tampa Bay Times is a gem about how campaigns and outside groups can communicate without, well, communicating: Tucked away on Sink's YouTube page is professionally shot video showing her talking with people at a cafe, walking with a man on the sidewalk and sitting ... (more)

The White House says President Barack Obama agrees with CIA Director John Brennan that it's important to get to the bottom of whether the spy agency committed violated any laws with respect to a Senate panel's investigation.

Nearly 30 senators staged an overnight debate on the Senate floor Monday night through Tuesday morning, trying to bring attention to what they say is a dire need to combat climate change with legislative action.

On Monday night, 30 Democratic U.S. Senators pulled an "all-nighter" in an effort to draw attention to the issue of climate change.

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Early last week, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unleashed his latest salvo on the Koch brothers on the Senate floor, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell came to the defense of the billionaire Republican megadonors.

In an election year bid to build public support for climate change legislation, Democrats and the Obama Administration used an all-night session on the Senate floor to call for action in the Congress, even as there was fresh evidence that Democrats aren't exactly united on how best to deal with global warming issues in Congress.

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Sam Lewis, 65, had triple bypass surgery in late November. Just days before, when he first qualified for Medicare coverage, a checkup discovered three of his arteries were clogged with plaque.

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It might not have the drama of a Sen. Ted Cruz overnight talk-a-thon, but some Senate Democrats hope their all-night stunt draws similar attention to their issue that has been stalled in Congress: climate change.

Dozens of Democratic senators plan to speak out Monday night into early Tuesday morning about their growing concerns with climate change.

After shocking pundits in a Tea Party-fueled primary upset in 2010, only to lose to incumbent Lisa Murkowski's write-in campaign that November, Joe Miller is now running in another GOP Senate primary, this time aiming to oust Democrat Mark Begich this November.

A group of Senate Democrats will stage an all-night session of the Senate tonight to discuss a matter the party has no plans to touch legislatively in this election year: Climate change.

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Alaska Sen. Mark Begich will release his first television ad Monday, an attack on the conservative Koch brothers' group Americans for Prosperity for the ads it's been running against Begich this year.

But for years the Obama administration has completely failed to use the U.S.'s boom in energy production to increase its security and that of its European allies.

Abortion bills. Immigration and drivers' licenses. School choice. Guns on campuses.