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The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday pushed through a bill that would authorize the Obama administration to supply arms to Syria's rebels - a strategy the White House has long-resisted out of concern the American weaponry may end up in the hands of terrorists fighting in the Mideast nation.

Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujn have joined other Western lawmakers in introducing legislation to protect New Mexico's mineral royalties from the effects of the federal sequester.

Sandia National Laboratory's recent safety record is so bad, it's been chastised by an internal review board, condemned by the federal government and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, according to two confidential reports.

The US Senate, with the support of New Mexico's Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, recently passed legislation called the "Marketplace Fairness Act." The idea behind the legislation is to set up a new taxation regime that would allow states to collect sales taxes on all online sales.

Concord The New Hampshire Republican State Committee demanded that Senator Jeanne Shaheen explain her 2012 letter to the IRS commissioner calling for increased investigations of social welfare organizations .

No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion-and ticking higher every day.

Sen. Carl Levin , repeatedly pressed the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of specific conservative nonprofit organizations in letters to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and director Lois Lerner in 2012.

UPI reports that a U.S. Senate bill would help states and local school districts support pregnant and parenting youth who face challenges staying in school, legislators say.

In March of 2012 Democratic Senators sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service demanding that Tea Party groups get extra scrutiny .

A bipartisan group of western lawmakers is pushing legislation in Washington to restore cuts of $110 million in federal mineral royalty payments to 35 states.

Lucas Ramos, 1, plays ball with his teen mother Sarah Bravo, 18, while in day care during the school day at Las Cruces High School recently.

Vice President Biden intoned, "On this vote, the yeas are 54, the nays are 46. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes, the amendment is not agreed to." Moments later, from the gallery, Patricia Maisch, survivor of the horrific Tucson shooting, shouted at the senators below, "Shame on you!" The Senate had defeated the bipartisan compromise ... (more)

A U.S. Senate bill would help states and local school districts support pregnant and parenting youth who face challenges staying in school, legislators say.

Bill John Baker, the Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, took Senator Tom Udall on a tour of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma: The tour consisted of stops to the W.W. Hastings' new emergency room and urgent care department that has been successful in shortening the wait times for Native patients; model homes that are part of the New Home ... (more)

Cort, who teaches French at Las Cruces High School, also met with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, at the vice president's home.

When it comes to the annals of government waste, the Enhanced Learning and Knowledge Network ranks up there with the best - or worst - of them.

Wyoming's senior U.S. senator said he plans to unveil legislation Thursday that would allow states to collect royalties directly from companies that produce minerals from federal lands.

One of the nation's leading conservatives on Tuesday assailed a new Heritage Foundation report that says a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration policy would cost American taxpayers more than $6 trillion.

U.S. senators from Wyoming and New Mexico said Tuesday they plan to roll out legislation this week to restore about $110 million in cuts to a federal minerals payment program that hit their states the hardest.

It has been nearly eight months since attacks on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens .