Senator Mark Begich News

Received this e-mail from Senator Kristen Gillibrand today in support of three Democratic Senators up for re-election next year who all happen to be named Mark: My friends Sens. Mark Pryor, Mark Udall and Mark Begich are all polling within single digits - and if they lose their re-election fights, our majority is gone.

Democratic National Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says that Obamacare will be a vote-winner for Democrats in 2014.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., and a bipartisan group senators have introduced legislation to exempt volunteer firefighters and first responders from the Affordable Care Act employee-mandate, the senator's office announced Thursday.

Democratic lawmakers seeking re-election in 2014 will pay a heavy political price for having supported President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act in 2010, writes Karl Rove in a Wall Street Journal op-ed .

Government figures released Wednesday show 398 Alaskans signed up for private health insurance during the first two months of the online marketplace.

Two or three or four years ago or maybe more I first came across the idea that Social Security benefits should not only not be cut, they should be increased.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Don Young obtained policies through a Washington, D.C., marketplace.

Sen. David Vitter , who has led the congressional crusade against Obamacare contributions for lawmakers' health plans, has officially foregone that generous financial aid for his 2014 coverage.

Last month, we noted that a bipartisan group of senators, lead by Jeff Merkley of Oregon, introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that asked President Obama to seek a vote in Congress over whether to extend the war in Afghanistan through "2024 and beyond," as the potential security pact with the Afghan government proposes.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee will highlight a Democratic divide over the South Dakota Senate race in releases hitting 2014 Senate contenders on Tuesday.

Well, according to this Business Insider, we should thank the Third Way -- for queuing up this softball, that even a Warren-Wantabee could have smashed out of the park.

So as I mentioned in my previous diaries that I was out sick so I am playing catch up with my diaries.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has decided to sign up for federal health care coverage in the South Carolina exchange, rather than through the Washington, D.C., exchange where he would qualify for a federal subsidy offered to both lawmakers and congressional aides.

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.