Science news articles about 'republican senator'

Democrats moved swiftly to assail Republican senators for voting against a major Medicare bill that would have averted a 10 percent cut in payments to doctors.

(AP) -- Republican senators say chances of reaching a bipartisan deal to overhaul health care dimmed after President Barack Obama issued a letter strongly supporting a new public health insurance ...

For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of ...

Anxious about how little maneuvering room the weekend victory on health care provided, Democrats are stepping up overtures to two moderate Republican senators from Maine.

... have an impact in calling the current presidential contest between Democrat Senator Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Republican Senator John McCain has staked his bid for the U.S. presidency on his reputation as a “political maverick,” a politician who is unafraid to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Republican senator seeking a bipartisan health deal spoke Sunday of "dialing down" expectations while one of President Barack Obama's ...

... voting record for 642 bills before the U.S. Senate in 2005 and 2006, and see how relationships ... changed over time. Democratic and Republican senators tended to bunch together (with then-Sen. Barack ...

Olympia Snowe, a Republican senator key to the health care debate, urged President Obama to take any plan for a new government-run program “off the table.”

Two Republican senators have requested numerous major changes in a Finance Committee proposal on health care, reducing the chances that they will support the measure.

Republican Senate Environment Committee Members Say They'll Boycott Meeting; Dems Claim Delay Tactic