By Alan J. Heavens INQUIRER REAL ESTATE WRITER Senators reached a compromise today to extend the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, a boost the housing industry expects will help it pull out of its two-year-old downturn. Lawmakers in Washington also added a $6,500 tax credit for other primary-home purchasers and raised the qualifying [...]

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(The BARN – Briggsdale, CO) New Senate Ag Committee Chair Blanche Lincoln says she intends to tackle her concerns with the climate change legislation proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry through her committee – and Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts says he and other Ag Republicans are anxious to work with her…102909_BAN_SenateAgRepublicansAnxious_2m45s_128kSOURCE: NAFB News Service

Evan Bayh, lying to us last November: If [Lieberman] does retain his chairmanship, we still exert oversight over him and control over him. He doesn't have the ability to just do whatever he wants. The caucus still has the right to remove him from that position at any time if he starts going off on some kind of tangent. All this talk of exert[ing] oversight over him and control was rightfully laughed at. And good thing we didn't believe him, because Dodd today gives us the reality

( Nashua Telegraph ) CONCORD – The State Senate bowed to the will of Gov. John Lynch and blocked New Hampshire from becoming the 14th state to legalize possession of medical marijuana for chronically ill patients and their caregivers. After three months of private lobbying, no minds were changed in the Senate as today’s 14-10 vote to override Lynch’s veto of the bill (HB 648) came up two votes shy of the mandatory, two-thirds majority. Hollis Democratic Sen. Peggy Gilmour co-founded the stat