By Alan J. Heavens INQUIRER REAL ESTATE WRITER Senators reached a compromise today to extend the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, a boost the housing industry expects will help it pull out of its two-year-old downturn. Lawmakers in Washington also added a $6,500 tax credit for other primary-home purchasers and raised the qualifying [...]

(The BARN – Briggsdale, CO) New Senate Ag Committee Chair Blanche Lincoln says she intends to tackle her concerns with the climate change legislation proposed by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry through her committee – and Kansas GOP Senator Pat Roberts says he and other Ag Republicans are anxious to work with her…102909_BAN_SenateAgRepublicansAnxious_2m45s_128kSOURCE: NAFB News Service

More than 1 million people hurt by the bad economy are at risk of losing their unemployment insurance by the end of the year. During the toughest economic crisis in more than a generation, 7,000 people every day are seeing their UI expiring—and it’s due to the petty obstructionism of two senators who are blocking the needed extension of UI benefits. This afternoon, 14 senators from across the country joined together to urge swift passage of a UI extension, to give workers access to the syste