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As the spotlight on health care reform shifts from the House to the more conservative Senate, Sen.

"Abortion-rights supporters are vowing to strip" abortion restrictions out of the House health care bill "as the focus turns to the Senate and the conference committee that would resolve differences between the two bills," the Washington Post reports.

As Democrats savored the narrow passage of their historic heath care overhaul in the House of Representatives, attention Sunday turned to the deeply-divided U.S. Senate.

Last week's Green Mountain holds the distinction of being the most-commented-upon issue since the section began back in June.

Large 'too-big-to-fail' banks should be required to break up into smaller banks within a year, according to legislation introduced by Sen.

Earlier this year Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said, half seriously, that he thought Texas ought to consider seceding from the Union.

Recognizing that a weak economy still needs a government boost, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to provide the jobless with up to 20 weeks in additional unemployment benefits and expand a first-time homebuyer tax credit to include a far larger pool of people entering the dormant housing market.

A Democratic senator took some harsh swipes at President Obama's Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as she was being interviewed on a Monday morning news show.

Vermont's congressional delegation will push for the strongest possible public option when Congress resumes the battle over health care next week.

Sen. Patrick Leahy is on track to raise and spend more money for his 2010 re-election campaign than in any of his six previous Senate races, even though no Republican opposition has yet surfaced.

The double standard on ACORN exposes the real underside of American politics: Our democracy is skewed against the voices of the poor.

The stock market is rising, sales of existing homes are up and you can be sure the boys on Wall Street are hard at work on the next risky financial product.

A Vermont plan to install electricity smart meters and other technologies to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs will receive nearly $70 million in stimulus money.

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont says Democrats should stop portraying health care reform as a bipartisan effort.

Joe Lieberman has once again rolled a political hand grenade into the Democrats' tent.

The Department of Public Safety will use the bulk of nearly $1 million in new federal appropriations to improve radio communications between state police, local law-enforcement agencies and other first responders in the state.

WATERBURY- Vermont law enforcement agencies and emergency responders are getting about $944,000 in federal money to buy new equipment.

Because consumer prices have remained stagnant, Social Security recipients will not get a bump in their benefit checks for the first time in three decades.

Across Vermont on Saturday, church bells rang, bicyclists pedaled in chilly temperatures and rainfall, "green" homeowners opened their doors to the curious, and Vermonters partied as part of the International Day of Climate Change.

The Vermont State Hospital will get another chance to earn federal certification and funding as a result of a meeting Sen.