Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to repeal the health care law passed last year.

JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Senate voted today to send a message to the state attorney general and the U.S. government, passing a resolution that calls for Missouri to join a legal challenge to the federal health care reform law.

Lawmakers will get a chance Monday to undo a piece of health care reform that businesses big and small say will cost jobs.

These days Governor Joe Manchin seems determined to be the most anti-Obama Democrat in the land -- who else has literally fired a bullet through a bill supported by the President? -- but he can be at a loss of words when asked to explain his earlier support for President Obama on health care reform.

WAUSAU -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson portrayed himself as a citizen legislator, focused on removing career politicians with minimal background in private industry.