Posted: 1:03 PM The Republican-led House Budget Committee approved a $3.5 trillion budget for 2012 on Wednesday that was hailed by its GOP authors as an end to a federal spending binge but savaged by Democrats as an assault on retirees and the poor.
Posted: 10:13 AM Senate Democrats on Wednesday defeated a Republican effort to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling the gases some blame for global warming.
Posted: 11:53 AM President Barack Obama announced today he will run again for a second term in 2012. His campaign website posted a video and supporters received an email. You can watch the video here
Posted: 10:56 AM Republicans continue to promote the need for big spending cuts and other steps to encourage small businesses to create jobs. You can watch the address here.
Updated: 10:23 AM President Barack Obama is promoting energy independence and its link to economic growth. You can watch his weekly address here.
Posted: 5:08 PM Tea Party members rallied on Capitol Hill today to urge Republicans to accept no compromise on cutting spending for the rest of this fiscal year.
Updated: 11:43 AM Take a deep breath. Now, hold it. What you do next could contribute to catastrophic global warming.
Posted: 5:39 PM House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers and Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf teamed up today in letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott.
Updated: 4:48 PM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued this response today to a recent Lexington Herald-Leader editorial.
Updated: 4:09 PM President Barack Obama is calling for a one-third reduction in U.S. oil imports by 2025 as part of a broad energy policy that also envisions a shift to cleaner-burning fuels. But Republicans lay the blame for soaring gas prices solely on the shoulder's of the Obama administration.
Posted: 5:32 PM Kentucky Senator Rand Paul blasted President Obama for “failing to consult Congress” and questioned the administration’s end game. Watch his response here.
Posted: 5:20 PM In case you missed it, here is the President’s speech on Libya.
Posted: 5:07 PM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is going after President Barack Obama’s comments on oil last week in Brazil. The President said the U.S. wants to be a "major customer" for the huge oil reserves Brazil recently discovered off its coast.
Updated: 1:20 PM Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell says the health care law is overly burdensome for states and businesses and as is, "simply will not work." you can watch the weekly address here.
Posted: 12:34 PM President Barack Obama says a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided in Libya. You can watch the President's weekly address here.
Posted: 4:31 PM Wednesday marks the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s health-care reform bill. Republicans and Democrats will mark the anniversary in much different ways.
Posted: 11:21 AM A newly elected Republican congresswoman says Senators should confront President Barack Obama on his veto threat and approve $61 million in spending cuts.
Posted: 11:03 AM President Barack Obama has arrived in Brazil to begin a five-day Latin American tour that will also take him to Chile and El Salvador.
Updated: 1:19 PM Here are my NCAA picks for this year. I thought you might like comparing brackets.
Posted: 12:31 PM U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says, “it’s no accident that gas prices are skyrocketing.” McConnell blames the spike on Democrats who control the Senate and White House.
Updated: 11:26 AM U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wants to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from what he calls “a back-door national energy tax.”
Updated: 11:20 AM Senator Rand Paul introduced an amendment on the Senate floor Tuesday to cut $200 billion over the next six and a half months.
Posted: 4:24 PM An Alaska senator is urging greater U.S. oil production, saying the way should be cleared for more pursuit of energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountain West. You can watch the address here.
Posted: 4:01 PM In his weekly radio and Internet address, President Barack Obama says he'll continue the fight to help women get fair wages, escape poverty and compete in academic areas with higher earning potential. You can watch the address here.
Posted: 3:28 PM President Barack Obama and the Senate's top Republican both declared on Friday they want to take on the huge entitlement programs driving America's long-term deficits - but their lines of attack differed sharply and that could lead to a showdown over government borrowing.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Some good news tonight for the family of a Kentucky man that's been missing for more than two weeks.
Updated: 05/25/2013 - An eastern Kentucky man has pleaded not guilty to killing a 2-month-old girl.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - A man facing charges from a car crash earlier this year that critically injured him and his daughter is back in jail.
Updated: 05/25/2013 - Officials say the amount of suspicious fires involving abandoned structures is alarming. Warfield Volunteer Fire Department Chief Greg Alley says, "Seems like it has become a pattern, and there is around one or two guys doing this...as professionals."
Posted: 05/25/2013 - A holiday weekend doesn't always mean higher gas prices. That's according to Gregg Laskoski, who's a senior petroleum analyst with GasBuddy.com.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Seven tornadoes have swept through Moore, Okla., since they were born, but new high school graduates are vowing they won't say goodbye to their town.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected of the savage killing of a British soldier.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Protests against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Rescuers are searching for the pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed in upstate New York, killing two passengers.
Posted: 05/25/2013 - Hundreds of runners are joining victims of the Boston Marathon bombings to finish the last mile of the race, reclaiming the triumph of crossing the finish line after explosives went off while many athletes were still running.
