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This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," December 14, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

In an effort to create even more jobs, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin proposes a tax credit for employers.

Democratic Senate negotiators struck a tentative agreement Tuesday night to drop the controversial government-run insurance plan from their overhaul of the health care system, hoping to remove a last major roadblock preventing the bill from moving to a final vote in the chamber.

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Senate Democratic negotiators said Tuesday that they'd tentatively agreed to a compromise plan that could alter the government-run option in their health care bill, a bid to win key moderates who've threatened to derail the effort.

Senator Russ Feingold says that he's opposed the troop build up in Afghanistan because it's a misguided mission.

An Our View article in the Stevens Point Journal titled 'Sen. Feingold understands budget concerns' may be true but he certainly isn't concerned about the views of pro-lifers in this state who make up a majority of voters.

In its first vote on health care overhaul, the Senate Thursday narrowly approved an amendment to safeguard coverage of mammograms and preventive screening tests for women under a revamped system.The 61-39 vote on an amendment by Sen.

The White House's new Afghan war strategy sounds an uncertain trumpet for many in Congress, inviting criticism from the left and right even as lawmakers are asked to commit billions more at a time of economic distress at home.

Several Republican and Democratic lawmakers have spoken out ahead of President Barack Obama's speech on Afghanistan, saying they oppose sending additional troops to the country, and that Congress should have the opportunity to vote on a troop surge.

During this time of economic recession we are all forced to make sacrifices and change our spending habits to live more within our means than we may have been accustomed to in the past and our government should not be any different.

Should Congress be debating a new entitlement of 2,074 pages, mix it with the House's 1,990 pages? This was prepared in secret by some unknown lawyers and special interests.

Sen. Russ Feingold understands people are concerned about the bottom line in these tough times, and he is trying to take that concern and turn it into policy in Washington.

Radio Ink November 23, 2009: Sen. Russ Feingold has launched a "Spotlight on Spending" series to highlight items in his Control Spending Now Act, which includes 40 items that, the senator says, will reduce the government deficit by more than half a trillion dollars.

With our economy in the grips of a downturn and the cost of living skyrocketing, it is difficult to know which government spending measures are going to help alleviate the problems and which are mindless, wasteful spending that only magnifies the problems.

Two years after enacting critical reforms of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and John McCain are asking the Administration why little progress has been made to implement them.

I would like to thank Senator Feingold and his staff for choosing Stevens Point as the capstone community for his 2009 listening sessions.

The Senate on Tuesday approved the $133.9 billion fiscal 2010 Military Construction-Veterans Affairs spending bill after defeating a proposal that would have blocked funds in the measure or other previously passed bills from being used to construct facilities in the United States to hold detainees from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, terrorist detention ...

In these difficult and partisan times, if you were to go looking for a person who was on the Concord Coalition's "Honor Roll," Taxpayers for Common Cause listing as "Taxpayer Guaradian," and "Top Senator" by the pro-Republican Club for Growth, look no further - that person is Sen.

Tuesday evening, November 3rd, There will be a round-table discussion in Appleton to discuss the President's plan for health insurance reform.