A day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords#39; emotional departure from Congress, the Senate on Thursday passed and sent to the president the final legislative act sponsored by the Arizona Democrat who was severely wounded in an assassination attempt a year ago.

The Senate voted down Democrat attempts to alter the controversial quot;right to workquot; legislation, including rejecting an amendment calling for a referendum that will let the public decide the issue this November.

FRANKFORT — A Democrat from far Western Kentucky will soon represent downtown Lexington in the state Senate under a redistricting plan approved by the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday.

Former Louisiana Senate president Sammy Nunez, a Chalmette Democrat who served in the Legislature from 1964 has died.

Former Louisiana Senate president Sammy Nunez, a Chalmette Democrat who served in the Legislature from 1964 until he was swept out of office in an anti-incumbent wave three decades later, has died. He was 81.