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The Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumed consideration of the conference report to H.R. 3199, the Patriot Act Reauthorization bill, and fai…

Senators Martinez and Obama spoke to reporters about proposed immigration reform and efforts by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to reach a compromise on enforcement of immigration law…

Ben S. Bernanke testified about his nomination as the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Mr. Bernanke told the committee that his top priority would be to continue the polic…

Accompanied by former Senator Dan Coats, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was on Capitol Hill for meetings with five more senators. He spoke with them in their offices. Some of the se…

The Senate convenes and resumed consideration of H.R. 3010, the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bill. At 10:00 a.m. the Senate proceeded to a vote on the motio…

The Senate convenes and begins a period of morning business. Thereafter, the Senate resumes consideration of H.R. 3010, the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Bil…

Secretary Rice testified about U.S. foreign policy toward Iraq in the fourth hearing on the topic. Among the topics she addressed were the state of security in the country, political progres…

The committee heard testimony from Julie Myers who was nominated by President Bush to be head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and Emilio Gonzales who was nominated to…

Witnesses testified about the plight of elderly citizens, some of whom were in nursing homes, during the two recent hurricanes. Mr. Bea explained the laws relating to declaring emergencies a…

The Senate convenes and resumes consideration of H.R. 2862, the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill.

Republican senators spoke to reporters about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Senator Lott, whose home was damaged by the hurricane, and the other senators also talked about recove…

The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission held a regional hearing on additions to the list of possible closures and realignments of defense bases. Elected officials and commun…

The Senate resumes consideration of H.R. 3057, the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill.

The Senate resumes consideration of S. 1307, the CAFTA trade agreement bill. The Senate passed S. 1307; Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement Implementatio…

After a period of morning business, the Senate resumes consideration of H.R. 2361, the fiscal year 2006 Interior Appropriations Bill.

The Senate continued consideration of H.R. 6, the Energy bill.

The Senate continued consideration of H.R. 6, the Energy bill.

Senator Martinez talked about a number of issues in the news including oil drilling in U.S., Guantanamo Bay prison, and other issues raised by viewers. The previous week during debate on t…