Posted: 4:36 PM Here are some reactions to President Obama’s plans for the Afghanistan War.

Posted: 7:28 PM Senator John McCain offered the first GOP amendment to the health care reform bill. The amendment will strip out more than 400 billion dollars in Medicare cuts to home health providers, hospitals, hospices and others. It is a pitch to seniors, who polls show have deep concerns about the legislation.

Posted: 7:11 PM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid promised lawmakers will work weekends to pass health care reform by Christmas. Meanwhile, the war of words rages on between the GOP and Democrats as the debate opens in the Senate.

Posted: 10:25 PM President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered starkly different recipes for relief. Obama and Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., singled out U.S. service members at home and abroad for special thanks before saying what they think should be done to fix the economy.

Posted: 8:58 PM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’. The topic heading is “Charity”.

Updated: 3:00 PM A Republican lawmaker is calling for an investigation into whether a U.N. panel "cooked the science" on climate change following the publication of more than 1,000 private e-mails that global warming skeptics say proves the threat is overstated.

Posted: 6:13 PM Here are some of the latest headlines on the health care debate.

Updated: 6:37 PM Here is a recap of several floor speeches leading up to the Senate’s vote on health care reform.

Updated: 5:39 PM Here is a complete list of Saturday’s Roll Call vote from the Associated Press. The bill passed 60-39 with no Republicans voting in favor of the health care reform legislation. Democrats needed a 60-vote majority to advance the measure to a full debate.

Posted: 5:23 PM Republicans used their Saturday address to slam the Democrats health care reform legislation just hours before a test vote in the Senate.

Posted: 4:56 PM President Obama is trumpeting his just completed trip to Asia as a potential boost to the American economy.

Posted: 4:30 PM Here is Governor Steve Beshear’s weekly address ‘About Kentucky’. The topic heading into the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays is “Hunger and Homelessness.

Posted: 5:36 PM Here is Senator Jim Bunning’s opening statement at today’s Banking Committee hearing. The panel is debating the Restoring American Financial Stability Act.

Posted: 3:17 PM Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate panel Wednesday that there is no need to fear trying 9-11 suspects in New York. Still, that assurance was not enough to ease the concerns of Republicans and many relatives of 9-11victims. You can watch some of the questioning here.

Posted: 2:41 PM Here is the Congressional Budget Office’s preliminary analysis of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill.

Posted: 1:23 PM Republicans wasted little time today going after the Democrats latest health care bill. GOP leaders say “Democrats should stop digging deeper into the deficit” claiming the Reid bill will result in higher premiums, tax increases and a government take-over of the nation’s health care system.

Updated: 12:52 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell promised, “This will not be a short debate” when talking about the latest Democratic health care bill. The 849-billion dollar measure would extend coverage to 94-percent of Americans and bar private industry from denying insurance due to pre-existing medical conditions.

Updated: 11:40 AM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled the Democrats health care bill late last night. This sets up a possible early showdown on the Senate floor by weeks end.

Updated: 5:57 PM I ran across this article on FOX News and wanted to share it with you. This is also the topic of our latest web poll.

Posted: 5:36 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to hammer away at the Democrats health care bill. Here are two speeches he made today on the Senate floor.

Posted: 5:00 PM First District Congressman Ed Whitfield is raising concerns about a possible 46% electric rate increase associated with the repairs to the Wolfe Creek Dam.

Posted: 3:54 PM Attorney General Eric Holder is in the hot seat on Capitol Hill, defending his decision to bring suspected 9-11 terrorists to New York City to face trial in a civilian courtroom. In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator Mitch McConnell called the move an “ill-advised decision."

Posted: 1:28 PM Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is the focus of this profile in today’s edition of the Roll Call.

Updated: 7:15 PM Here are some of the latest headlines on the health care debate.

Posted: 6:04 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pulls out the props to illustrate his opposition to the Democrats health care bill. McConnell’s floor speech comes one day before Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is expected to unveil his health care bill.