Lawmakers plot votes to roll back Bush tax breaks.

New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester) is planning to start a federal fund-raising committee with an eye toward running for U.S. senator in 2014, he said Friday.

New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D., Gloucester) is planning to start a federal fund-raising committee with an eye toward running for U.S. senator in 2014, he said Friday.

In a sudden about-face that dramatically reshapes the Florida Senate race, an adviser to Rep. Connie Mack said on Wednesday that the four-term Republican will seek his party's nomination to run against incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

The Senate voted Tuesday to effectively block the Justice Department from undertaking gun-smuggling probes like the flawed Operation Fast and Furious aimed at breaking up networks running guns to Mexican drug cartels but that lost track of hundreds of the weapons, some of which were used to commit crimes in Mexico and the United States.