Senate passes defense spending bill
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 20th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
Senate passes defense spending bill
In a rare early Saturday morning vote, the Senate passed a massive Pentagon spending bill that includes nearly $130 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a measure Republicans had tried to block as a means of delaying action on President Obama’s health-care overhaul.
Senators from Md., Va. report to work in snowstorm
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), who is recovering from an accident in which her ankle was broken in multiple places, got to the Capitol at 7:30 a.m. Saturday after a treacherous two-hour drive down Interstate 95 from Baltimore.