The country could face a second round of automatic budget cuts if Congress can’t agree on a spending plan by year’s end.
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Senate passes anti-discrimination bill
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill to ban workplace discrimination against gay and transgender people.
Measure to combat sexual assault would limit military commanders’ power
A group of U.S. senators, including Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, is pressing to strip military commanders of the authority to decide how to handle accusations of rape within their units.
Murkowski misses vote on anti-discrimination bill
Monday night, the U.S. Senate voted to move ahead with a bill to protect gay people from workplace discrimination.
Murkowski meets with FEMA about Galena flooding response
Sen. Lisa Murkowski met this week with federal officials investigating FEMA’s response to this year’s flooding in Galena.
Bills don’t move, but Alaskans in Congress file away
Congress usually passes a few hundred bills a year. So far this year it has passed only 46.
Congress extends timber country payments one year
Congress has passed a one-year extension of a program that pays out millions of dollars to communities in Alaska near national forest land, like Petersburg.
Senate challengers side with House Republicans in shutdown showdown
What would the Republican Senate candidates who are challenging Begich have done if they had been in office instead?
Murkowski secures $50 million for legacy well clean up
Legislation that passed Congress yesterday will allocate $50 million to clean up the 130 oil and gas wells that were drilled and abandoned by the federal government in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska.
Delegation not expecting movement in background check legislation
The mass shooting at a Navy installation in Washington, D.C. Monday is reigniting the debate over guns and background checks.