WASHINGTON — Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is filling a void for liberal but disillusioned Democrats who flocked to President Barack Obama in 2008. She’s attracting attention, money and help the liberal left isn’t yet eager to give to Obama. A longtime consumer advocate, the Harvard University professor has cast herself as a crusader against corporations and once said her work ...

A Senate committee on Wednesday took the first key step toward approval of a two-year transportation spending plan, and then pledged to find the money to pay for it and seek a long-term solution to the nation’s transportation funding deficit. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a plan to spend almost $80 billion for surface transportation, creating the core legislation ...

Republican senators failed Tuesday in their third effort in less than two months to eliminate federal money for bike paths, walking trails and other transportation enhancement projects.

WASHINGTON — The Senate has defeated the third effort in less than two months to eliminate federal transportation funding for bike paths, walking trails and other transportation enhancement projects. Sixty senators voted Tuesday against an amendment by Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul forbidding the government from spending any money on enhancement projects and re-directing funds to bridge ...

Miller Baker is campaigning to cut Fairfax County schoolkids some slack from “draconian” disciplinary policies. He wants more money for classrooms, less for education bureaucrats. He’s calling for the school year to start before Labor Day. The Republican lawyer is promising all this — not as a candidate for school board, but for state Senate. Read full article gt;gt;