U.S. Senate

Top Senate Democrats have prepared a plan to slice the Pentagon's budget by $3 billion a year in an attempt to avoid far steeper cuts this year that defense hawks warn would cripple the military.

Three months after Superstorm Sandy devastated parts of the densely populated Northeast, the Senate is nearing a vote on a $50.5 billion emergency relief bill to help storm victims recover.

Wyoming's U.S. Senators Enzi and Barrasso joined senators from Colorado and South Dakota to encourage federal officials to used the timber industry to help thin forests prone to wildfires, like the ones that raged across their states this summer.

President Barack Obama's health spending law is destroying jobs nationwide. That at least is the assertion of Wyoming Senator John Barrasso who recently sounded off against the $20 billion medical device tax that is attached to the President's health legislation.

In recent years, perhaps nothing in the world of natural resources has been more controversial than the debate over hydraulic fracturing or "fracking." The national debate has been especially significant in Wyoming, where contaminated groundwater near Pavillion was linked to chemicals used in fracking.

Two years ago, President Barack Obama's health care reform bill, widely referred to as, "Obamacare" was passed, and as quickly as the term "Obamacare" became used, it seemed to solidify itself into our vernacular. Whether this was because of the contentious nature the bill swiftly carry or the vast amount of publicity and scrutiny the legislation received. A very polarizing issue, healthcare is always widely discussed during elections, but seems more so this year than in any election of recent memory.

President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone Pipeline has caused an uproar on capitol hill, and among those opposing the decision, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Senate adjourned for the holidays, House Republicans are moving to shelve a bipartisan two-month extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut that cleared the Senate over the weekend and are demanding instead that their fellow lawmakers return to the Capitol for negotiations...