Senator Mark Begich News

That's a new Senate Majority PAC ad that's airing in Louisiana, tying Bill Cassidy, Republican challenger to Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu, to the Koch brothers.

Robert Boochever U.S. Courthouse is located on the ninth floor of the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building in Juneau.

Like all special elections, it is possible to overstate the implications of yesterday's Republican victory in Florida's 13th Congressional District .

If there is one issue Senator Mark Begich deserves a ton of praise for, it's igniting the call to expand Social Security.

The American Hotel & Lodging Association, the sole national association representing all segments of the 1.8 million-employee lodging industry, announces that Senators Mark Begich and Susan Collins have been named the association's 2014 "Champions of the Industry."

The conservative Club for Growth PAC announced Wednesday that it will back former Alaska attorney general Dan Sullivan in the GOP primary to face Sen. Mark Begich .

How much does it cost to rent the Senate floor for 24 hours? By the looks of it, more than $100 million.

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.

The following diaries are examples of this week's Election Diary Rescue. This post features a collection of 37 diaries.

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.