WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Senate Thursday dealt President Barack Obama the third in a string of defeats on his stimulus-style jobs agenda, blocking a $60 billion measure for building and repairing infrastructure like roads and rail lines. Supporters of the failed measure said it would have created tens of thousands of construction jobs and lifted the still-struggling economy. But ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate is stonewalling 15 bills that would help the economy, a Republican congressman said in the party's weekly media address.

Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled a GOP jobs bill designed to offer a conservative vision for improving the economy and counter President Obama’s insistence that congressional Republicans have rejected his ideas for job growth without offering any of their own. The bill is largely a repackaging of long-stated Republican priorities, and many have also been endorsed by GOP leaders in the ...

In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the Senate passed a bill on Tuesday targeting China's undervalued currency -- long accused of hampering the U.S. economy.

The Senate is expected to pass a bill on Tuesday that targets China's undervalued currency -- long accused of hampering the U.S. economy by spurring global trade imbalances and economic hardship for U.S. manufacturers.