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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.

Voters in this stretch of beach towns and retirement communities provide the first 2014 campaign test of whether Democrats can counter GOP attacks on the president's health care overhaul by accusing Republicans of threatening popular benefit programs for the elderly.

A California man with ties to the oil industry is the newest member of the Alaska board that sets the value for oil industry property, and a spokeswoman for Gov. Sean Parnell says the appointment is legal - despite a state law that requires board members to be registered Alaska voters.

That's the message coming from President Obama as he tries desperately to rouse Democrats out of a midterm election stupor that could cost his party control of the Senate - and end bury his agenda once and for all.

For a guy who likes to sing with the chorus railing about federal overreach in Alaska, Sen. Mark Begich is an unabashed buttinski, cherry-picking state issues to weigh in on, while dodging others.

But he says he isn't seeking the job. Treadwell was appointed to the United States Arctic Research Commission in 2001 and served until 2010, when he ran for lieutenant governor.

The bill would allow the federal coordinator for Alaska's gas-pipeline projects to work on the effort to build an 800-mile pipeline that would deliver liquefied natural gas for overseas export.

As she campaigns for the House, Democrat Gwen Graham spends time on occasion working alongside fellow Florida residents-on a farm, at a goat ranch, at a construction site.

The big takeaway from the 2012 election was the limits of the modern Republican electoral coalition.