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Bill Johnson is running his campaign for the U.S. Senate the old-fashioned way. He is attending community events across the state, meeting and speaking with residents about what they want to see from the person who will replace Jim Bunning.

Over at the blog In the Agora , Joshua Claybourn notes that libertarian Rand Paul has taken an early polling lead for the Republican nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen.

Witnesses participating in the Senate Banking House and Urban Affairs committee's hearing Wednesday on dark pools, flash orders and high frequency trading called for more openness in what was basically seen as a well-functioning market structure.

Is Richie gonna play tonight? That's the question echoing throughout Kentucky since former University of Kentucky basketball player and current state Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer told The Associated Press last week that he is considering a run for governor.

U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis spent more than $60,000 in campaign funds last year not running for re-election. In the months after Lewis, R-Cecilia, dropped out of the race, his campaign paid for restaurant meals, catering, hotels, flowers, Christmas cards, gifts for friends, cell phones, car fuel and maintenance, photography and $13,000 "loyalty awards" for ...

An exclusive WHAS11/Survey USA poll released Sunday shows widespread disapproval in the bluegrass state.

Members of a new Senate panel and the Obama administration's chief performance officer said on Thursday they are committed to ensuring that performance informs budget decisions on federal programs.

WASHINGTON - The homeland security spending bill signed this week by President Barack Obama includes more than $15 million for Kentucky.

Depending on how you count it, there are somewhere between 15.1 million and 25 million people currently unemployed in the United States.

The fact that its sponsor and his 26 co-sponsors - including Georgia Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson - are all Republicans is all you need to know to understand that Senate 1772 is a wholly political maneuver.

Though he's running for his party's nomination to the U.S. Senate, Boone County Republican Trey Grayson still has a day job.

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In recent weeks President Obama has come under fire recently for being "too cautious" and "too slow" in making appointments to vacant federal posts.

Extending and expanding an $8,000 homebuyer tax credit should be a slam dunk in the Senate, but the White House is still being cautious about the impact of the politically popular program.

TV Today's 6: Idaho's News Risch Supports Transparency Resolution Washington, DC-U.S. Senator Jim Risch reiterated his continuing support today of a resolution requiring greater transparency in all legislative matters brought before the Senate.

Not all republicans on the Senate Finance Committee favored Senator Max Baucus' health care overhaul bill.

As reported earlier, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been fighting against efforts to institute transparency in the healthcare debate by posting SB3200, the House healthcare bill, online for at least 72 hours before the bill comes to the floor.

Senators Olympia J. Snowe, Orrin G. Hatch and Charles E. Grassley, during the Senate Finance Committee's hearing on health care reform on Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today co-sponsored legislation calling for a change in Senate rules to require a Congressional Budget Office score on all legislative matters, and for the text of legislation to be posted on the Internet 72 hours prior to consideration by any Senate subcommittee or committee, or on the floor of the Senate.

You may never have heard of the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, or the Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs.