Senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin announced the United States Senate Youth Program has begun its statewide selection process. The two selected Iowa students will join 102 other delegates March 5-12, 2011, for the program’s 49th Annual Washington Week, an intensive week-long educational program.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin announced the United States Senate Youth Program has begun its statewide selection process. The two selected Iowa students will join 102 other delegates March 5-12, 2011, for the program’s 49th Annual Washington Week, an intensive week-long educational program.

The Senate is likely to pass the $132 million budget bill with amendments, and may also take up the Saipan casino bill, when it holds a session on Tinian on Friday afternoon, senators said yesterday.

Sixteen U.S. senators, including the Agriculture Committee's top Democrat and Republican, sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a letter on July 2 scolding it for proposing $6 billion in cuts to crop insurance. This letter comes the same week that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) voiced support for increasing and improving crop insurance coverage at the Committee's ...

The Maine Senate returned to the statehouse Wednesday to vote on more than 70 nominees from Governor Baldacci. The men and women will fill positions on boards, commissions and judgeships. The senators will also decide whether to elevate three district court judges to the superior court bench. . . .