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The Senate debated compromise legislation to raise the debt ceiling and begin a deficit reduction process. The measure passed the House the previous day on a vote of 269 to 161. The vote lat…

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The Senate approved a bill that overhauls the patent system. The legislation includes changes to the collection of fees and the way patents are awarded.

The Senate continued work on HR 2055, the Military Construction-Veterans Administration spending bill for fiscal year 2012.

The Senate voted 51-46 to table the motion to table consideration of a House-passed bill, H.R. 2560, the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act.

The Senate began work on an infrastructure and transportation spending package, the second piece of President Obama’s jobs plan.

The heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the acting comptroller of Currency talked about efforts to implement the Fran…

Back in on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10:00am for one hour of morning business. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of S 1619, the China currency bill. *ML Reid filed …

Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke presented to the committee the Federal Reserve Board’s semiannual report on monetary policy. In his remarks he compared possible failure to raise the natio…

Senate Appropriations Committee Member Mark Kirk (R-IL) talked about what Congress had and had not accomplished in 2011. Topics included the Social Security payroll tax cut, the prospects fo…

Senators Bob Menendez and Mark Kirk spoke in favor of their amendment to the FY12 National Defense Authorization Act, which would place sanctions on banks conducting business with the Centra…

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman testified on his agency’s 2012 budget.

The Senate voted unanimously to extend by two years Robert Mueller’s tenure of the FBI.

The Senate Banking Committee met to mark the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Act in to law, and to look at the impact of that measure. Wi…