Posted: 11:16 AM Fifth District Congressman Hal Rogers says senior citizens in his district are concerned about the Democrats health care plan. Listen to his speech on the House floor here.
Posted: 2:22 PM 5th District Congressman Hal Rogers issued this statement regarding the “Cap and Trade” bill.
Posted: 2:13 PM 5th District Congressman Hal Rogers issued this statement regarding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill.
Posted: 11:24 AM Here are some of the latest headlines on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill.
Posted: 10:05 AM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Democrats health care plan will force President Obama to break his “no new taxes” promise to the middle class. You can watch or read his speech here.
Posted: 6:29 PM The controversy continues today over Governor Beshear’s decision to call the Capitol Christmas tree a holiday tree. The Family Foundation of Kentucky calls Beshear the Governor that stole Christmas. Today, Governor Beshear issued this statement:
Posted: 2:13 PM A new study released Wednesday shows taxpayers paid $24,000 per vehicle sold under the government’s “Cash for Clunkers program. Read the full report here.
Posted: 7:49 PM Here are three speeches on health care reform from our Kentucky Congressional Delegation.
Updated: 6:31 PM Governor Steve Beshear has angered some Christians with his yuletide terminology. A giant evergreen that will brighten the Capitol lawn this winter will not be called a Christmas tree. Instead, the Beshear administration has dubbed it a “holiday tree’.
Updated: 4:52 PM In an op-ed piece Congressman Hal Rogers writes, "Effective security requires unwavering commitment. Regrettably, I fear the commitment demanded by our vast homeland security needs has shown signs of waning. Sadly, security seems to be buried somewhere underneath the administration’s costly pursuit of other initiatives."
Updated: 5:38 PM University of Kentucky basketball icon Richie Farmer is considering running for governor on the Republican ticket.
Updated: 10:24 AM Western Kentucky businessman Bill Johnson is my guest Monday, November 2nd on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition. Johnson is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. What would you like to ask Bill Johnson? I’ll use some of your questions when I sit down with Bill Johnson to tape the show Friday morning.
Posted: 2:28 PM Rand Paul questions Trey Grayson's "mainstream views". Paul says it's those views that have led to the "same old mistakes" in Washington.
Posted: 1:46 PM Legendary Paintsville Basketball Coach Bill Mike Runyon wants to take his political game to Frankfort. Runyon is seeking the Republican nomination for State Representative of the 97th District which represents Johnson, Martin and parts of Pike and Floyd County. That seat is currently held by Democrat Hubert Collins.
Posted: 10:55 AM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says all the nervousness on health care is on the Democratic side of the aisle. His comments came during an interview Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. You can watch the interview here.
Posted: 7:44 PM Republicans are asking Americans to consider whether Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation’s health care system will improve their lives. Listen to the GOP weekly address here.
Posted: 6:25 PM President Obama wants banks to lend more money to small businesses. Listen to his weekly address here.
Posted: 3:12 PM In 2004 Kentucky led the nation in missing teeth among people ages 65 and older. Governor Beshear says “Too often the face of Kentucky is that of a person missing a mouthful of teeth.” Here is his solution.
Posted: 8:53 PM Rand Paul is calling for an apology from his Primary opponent. Earlier this week Trey Grayons said Paul is an "outsider and not a Kentuckian". Listen to both candidates here.
Posted: 6:22 PM Earlier this week, I posted the latest job approval ratings for President Barack Obama. Teresa takes issue with those numbers calling Rasmussen and Zogby “right wing” polls. She suggested I look at these polls.
Updated: 11:24 AM Kentucky’s Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate is getting a lot of media attention these days but it’s not for the candidate’s position on the issues. Earlier this week Daniel Mongiardo’s campaign accused his chief rival with “dirty political tricks”. Jack Conway's campaign responded by calling it a bunch of “YouTube silliness”. Watch the latest stories here.
Posted: 10:09 AM The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. That’s the lowest level of Strong Approval yet measured for this President.
Posted: 9:47 AM President Obama’s popularity is dropping again. The latest Zogby Poll shows the President’s approval rating at 49-percent. 51-percent disapprove of the President’s job performance. Take a look at the numbers here.
Posted: 9:33 AM The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate — plus the House — would suggest that President Barack Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall. But the numbers mask a more complicated reality.
Posted: 1:25 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says Democrats are ignoring a “common sense” approach to reforming health care. Watch his Senate floor speech here.
6 mins ago - A south-central Kentucky city is hoping to capture methane gas from a regional landfill and turn it into electricity.
Posted: 2:40 PM - A Canadian man facing federal charges of stalking the brother of actress Jennifer Lawrence in Kentucky has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam.
Posted: 2:24 PM - The U.S. Department of Energy has rejected a proposal that would have extended operations at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
Updated: 1:05 PM - This was supposed to be a time to celebrate the end of the school year, but some Lexington students are instead planning a vigil to remember a classmate.
Updated: 1:04 PM - The collapse of that bridge in Washington state is raising questions here in Kentucky about the safety of the more than 13-thousand bridges in the Commonwealth. We've learned a bridge is closed this mid-day because state highway officials deemed it too unstable for traffic.
Posted: 10:23 AM - British police say two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a civilian plane flying from Pakistan to England.
Posted: 9:58 AM - Emergency responders in central Kentucky had cleared the scene of a crash that killed a Tennessee woman when they found the body of her husband nearly 1,000 feet away.
Posted: 9:19 AM - Lottery officials say a Cash Ball ticket worth $1 million has been sold at a Georgetown gas station.
Updated: 12:30 PM - The jury foreman in Jodi Arias' murder trial says the 18 days she spent on the witness stand didn't do her any good.
Posted: 8:59 AM - A day after laying out his counterterrorism vision, President Barack Obama is addressing future military leaders who could help carry it out in a speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates.
