State Senators Debate College Research Dairy
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By Jared S. Hopkins, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Feb.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Feb. 11--JEROME -- For decades, small and large dairy owners have banded together to protect their industry, but those days might be over.
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Partisan panel debates presidential candidates' stand on technology issues.
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WASHINGTON - The Senate, in an unusual Sunday session, saw its effort to pass a sweeping corporate tax bill grind to a halt in the face of delaying tactics by a Louisiana senator upset that the measure did not include pay support for members of the Reserves and National Guard.    By a 66-14 vote, lawmakers did agree to limit debate on the tax bill, which provides $136 billion in new tax breaks for businesses and $10.1 billion separately to buy out tobacco farmers' government quotas...
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In an emotional session marked by tales of death and hope, the Senate debated on Monday whether the government should pay for new embryonic stem cell research, pushing a measure to do it toward passage and President Bush&#039;s first veto.
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SECOND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND SENATOR JOHN KERRY (D-MA). MR. GIBSON: Good evening from the Field House at Washington University in St.
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Like most of us, politicians don&#39;t know much about isotopes. But because they know something about money and jobs, lawmakers from Illinois and Michigan are locked in a battle
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Senators on Thursday urged President Bush' pick for agriculture secretary to work with farm-state lawmakers on the five-year farm bill that has stalled in talks between Congress and the administration.
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A panel discussion on stem cell research brought a variety of experts on all sides of the issue to the Capital Region Thursday. It was sponsored by Albany Law School and Albany Medical College.
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By The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Dec. 15--Jerome County commissioners know all too well how difficult dairy issues are to explain to some local residents. So you'd think they'd be just as cautious about explaining dairy zoning to national tourists.
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Scientists who seek an alternative to the fossil-fuel theory got a Senate hearing this week.
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Democratic Sen.-elect Dan Foster, a strong advocate for banning or restricting soft drink sales in public schools, plans to stock the mini-refrigerator in his statehouse office with healthy drinks: bottled water, juices and milk.
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Clinton needs a Dairy State win to prevent him from winning nine primaries in a row.
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(InfoWorld) - A U.S. senator plans to introduce a bill that seeks to increase funding for research and science education in an effort to kick start efforts to pass legislation to improve U.S. competitiveness. Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, said he would introduce the National Competitiveness Investment Act Tuesday. The bill, with both Republican and Democratic co-sponsors, would increase funding for research and for math, science and technology education by about US$20 billion through 2011, an Ensign spokesman said. The bill would establish new research programs in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and it would set a goal of 8 percent of the budgets of U.S. agencies that conduct research be directed toward a new Innovation Acceleration Research Program. The bill, which combines competitiveness ideas from several congressional committees, pumps up education programs in several agencies and authorizes a math improvement program for elementary and middle-school students endorsed by U.S. President George Bush. Parts of the bill come from Ensignâs American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved in May. "America has always been on the cutting edge of technology and innovation, but we are starting to fall behind," Ensign said in a statement. "It is critical that we embrace technology and ensure that our children receive a stronger education in the core subjects of mathematics and science. This legislation is a great step forward in securing our place as a global leader in innovation." Ensign's legislation, co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, comes after technology trade groups the Technology CEO Council and TechNet have called on Congress to move ahead with competitiveness legislation. Earlier this month, TechNet applauded an early draft of the Ensign bill, while the Technology CEO Council sent a letter to congressional leaders, asking them to follow through on promises to pass competitiveness legislation this year. Both parties have pushed "innovation" agendas since late 2005 or early this year, but Congress has failed to pass a comprehensive competitiveness package. "It was important to have it in 2004, when we called for it," Technology CEO Council Executive Director Bruce Mehlman said of a competitiveness package. "It seems inconceivable the action will elude us yet again." Mehlman called on Congress to extend a research and development tax credit for U.S. companies and to increase the cap for foreign worker visas under the controversial H-1B program. Ensign's new bill doesn't address either of those issues, but it does increase funding for research, another concern of the trade group. "The time to act is now," Mehlman said earlier this month. "There's no good reason it can't happen ... since there's so much agreement on the merits and the substance."
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In Saturday radio address, VP candidate says measure curtails pay at a time workers need it. ATLANTA (CNN) - Calling to mind his days unloading tractor trailers during the summer, Sen. John Edwards blasted
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ST. LOUIS - In a testy debate rematch Friday, Sen...
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--The raging debate over capital spending on college campuses has largely obscured equally important problems with the omnibus higher education bill being promoted by Republican Sen. Gary Nodler.