Manchin, other W.Va. officials vow to speak in single, pro-coal voice to mining regulators An array of West Virginia's top political leaders stood ...
EPA plans first-ever veto of permit for West Virginia surface mine, citing pollution concerns The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it planned ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate, who this week sketched out legislation to tackle global warming, now face the hard part -- convincing enough fence-sitters to join their cause. It is labor-intensive work, figuring out the combination of undecided senators ...
Senate Finance Committee members, from left, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. , center,confer with committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1,2009, as the committee continued its health care markup. (AP Photo/Harry ...
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 01: Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (R) and Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) (3rd R) listen to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) (2nd R) during a mark up hearing before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill October 1, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Tuesday rejected a government-run "public" insurance option as part of a broad healthcare overhaul, handing insurers an early victory and setting the stage for a long fight over one of the bill's most contentious issues. ...
In a long-anticipated showdown, liberal Democrats twice failed on Tuesday to inject a government-run insurance option into sweeping health care legislation taking shape in the Senate, despite bipartisan agreement that private insurers must change their ways. The two votes marked a victory ...
Pelosi says House will consider Senate funding scheme for health care House Democrats are considering an insurance tax to help pay for their health care overhaul plan, even though such a funding scheme is bitterly opposed by labor unions that are among ...
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 25: Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) talks with an aide during a Senate Finance Committee mark up session on health care reform legislation on Capitol Hill September 25, 2009 in Washington, DC. Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has been ...
Everyone agrees things need to change, but no one likes the changes Congress has three different versions of a plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, and none of them were crowd-pleasers at Congressional town hall meetings over the summer. The ...
Guests for the Sunday TV news shows Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ___ ABC's "This Week" — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn. ___ CBS' "Face ...
