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Maine's two senators are joining other members of Congress in opposing border crossing fee along the northern and southwestern borders.

Senate Republicans are locked in a widening internal dispute over future budget negotiations, splitting along generational and ideological lines on the party's approach to the central issue that drove the conservative surge in the Obama era: how to deal with the federal debt.

PORTLAND, Ore. A Vancouver woman who says her life was in danger after being raped twice at a Texas Air Force base says she's been further victimized by military policies about sexual assault.

Members of Maine's congressional delegation are trying to keep up the pressure on the Department of Defense to buy footwear from U.S. manufacturers, a move that would likely benefit the state's New Balance sneaker factories.

Athletic shoe vouchers for Army, Navy and Air Force recruits could be used to purchase only American-made footwear under a bill introduced Thursday by two senators from Maine.

Concerned over a shortage of a key medication used to treat Lyme disease, Maine Sen.

WASHINGTON Two senators have signed onto a bill originally introduced by Rep. Mike Turner aimed at stopping what they call an "epidemic" of sexual assault in the Armed Forces.

Investors understandably paid more attention to Ben Bernanke's views on monetary policy when he testified in Congress this week than to his thoughts on fiscal policy.

On the heels of a recent report detailing 26,000 cases of military sexual assault in 2012 alone, a handful of lawmakers are pushing tough new laws that would punish the perpetrators of these crimes rather than the victim, and which seek to help transform the culture in a military that has been riddled with sexual offense.

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military.

When Republican Scott Brown faced Democrat Martha Coakley in a January 2010 special election for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, he was criticized by Coakley and other Democrats as being too conservative.

Amid scrutiny and oversight of the Obama administration's many failures and the scandals that have resulted, it's easy to forget that Congress has failed - once more - to fulfill its statutory duty to pass an annual budget by April 15.

Source: TPM Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday defended his objection to initiating House-Senate budget negotiations unless Democrats take a debt limit increase off the table, saying he doesn't trust his party to hold the line.

Sen. John McCain bucked members of his own party Tuesday by objecting to a GOP request to prohibit budget committee conferees from raising the debt ceiling.

As members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King now are faced with a particularly important opportunity - the chance to finally publicize this country's use of torture since 9/11. In December, the Intelligence Committee approved a 6,000-page report on the CIA's use of torture on post-9/11 detainees.

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military.

Garret Oliver has been brewmaster at The Brooklyn Brewery since 1994. He was the brewmaster at Manhattan Brewing before that and has served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer , written two other books on beer and continues to make a series of brews that gets all the beer geeks excited.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is marking up the massive bill that leaders in both parties agree presents the best opportunity to reform immigration policy in decades.

A divided U.S. Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III , a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department , to the federal court in San Francisco.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed major changes to military laws for sexual assault cases, backing a bill to prevent military commanders from handling sexual assault cases that involve their subordinates.