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WASHINGTON - Republicans today blocked the Senate from next week considering a bill sponsored by Sen.

Sniping between US Senate Democrats and Republicans Wednesday over a bill Democratic proponents say would sharply limit speculation in energy markets seems to have doomed the legislation to languish until after ...

Despite inclusion of sweeteners such as mental health parity legislation and Midwest flood relief, GOP senators today did not take too kindly to a new $123 billion tax "extender" bill introduced late Thursday ...

New Mexico Republican Senator Pete Domenici said that the energy bill offered by his state's junior senator is "not a very big solution to a big problem." The reconfigured energy bill, written by Sen.

Sniping between US Senate Democrats and Republicans Wednesday over a bill Democratic proponents say would sharply limit speculation in energy markets seems to have doomed the legislation to languish until after ...

New Mexico Republican blasts Democrat for suggesting Iraqi government backs his troop timetable.

US Senate Democrats expect Wall Street lobbyists to try to defeat a bill aimed at curbing excess speculation and manipulation in oil markets.

Many Republicans are already beginning to think past 2008 - a year that could be dismal for them - to 2010 and a chance to regain power in Washington by winning greater influence in the next decade's ...

That is what he suggested at a town hall meeting earlier this week in New Mexico by way of offering a tip of the cap to Rep.

A bill that would help fund a new dairy consortium and other agriculture initiatives affecting New Mexico was approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday, according to press releases from the ...

A U.S. senator has blocked three nominations to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, saying that the federal agency has failed to regulate oil markets even as the price of gasoline hits new highs almost ...

Many Republicans are already beginning to think past 2008 -- a year that could be dismal for them -- to 2010 and a chance to regain power in Washington by winning greater influence in the next decade's ...

Pete Domenici appeared on the Fox Business Network to discuss President Bush's announcement that he would lift the executive order banning offshore oil drilling - which Domenici hailed as "wonderful news." ...

Sen. Lamar Alexander and Sen. Pete Domenici met today to introduce legislation, the Gas Price Reduction Act, as well as support the President's lifting the administrative ban on offshore exploration.

Just days ago, southern New Mexico's only neurosurgeon, Brett Henderson, was facing the prospect of closing his Las Cruces practice and accepting a job elsewhere.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded a $340,201 grant to the New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

U.S. Senator Pete Domenici today announced committee-level approval of a funding bill that would provide a net increase of $26 million in FY2009 for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and related activities.

Washington, D.C. - Today, sponsors Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., along with co-sponsors Sen.

A U.S. Senate subcommittee has declined to go along with proposed steep funding cuts at the national laboratories in New Mexico.

Senate panel votes to restore LANL funds By ROGER SNODGRASS, Monitor Editor A Senate subcommittee this morning proposed to restore funding for a major construction project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, but ...