President Barack Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill Tuesday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year. Fourteen senators from both parties — including several who remain undecided on the climate bill — met for more than an hour ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name "cap and trade" and rebrand their product as "pollution reduction targets." A clunky and difficult term to define for laymen and some politicians, "cap and trade" had become dirty words on Capitol Hill in recent months. Republicans called the plan nothing ...

Gay groups are cheering Wednesday's Senate introduction of a bill that would repeal “don't ask, don't tell,” the military policy that bans open gay service.

Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman is the lead sponsor of the measure ...