http://www.mail.com/people/15068-richard-shelby.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/15068-richard-shelby.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022332-role-reversal-gop-blasts-obama-plan-to-sell-tva.html WASHINGTON (AP) — In a political role reversal, Republicans are blasting President Barack Obama's plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority, an icon of the New Deal long targeted by conservatives as an example of government overreach. Obama's 2014 budget proposal calls for a strategic review of the TVA, the nation's largest public utility wi... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:15:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022332-role-reversal-gop-blasts-obama-plan-to-sell-tva.html 2013-04-16T07:15:54Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1947078-senate-democrats-unveil-government-funding-bill.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Democrats and Republicans Monday night released a catchall government funding bill that denies President Barack Obama new money for implementing signature first-term accomplishments like new regulations on Wall Street and his expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like health r... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:38:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1947078-senate-democrats-unveil-government-funding-bill.html 2013-03-12T02:38:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1906734-hagel-support-defense-secretary.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Barring any new, damaging information, Chuck Hagel has secured the necessary votes for the Senate to confirm him to be the nation's next defense secretary. A vote ending the bitter fight over President Barack Obama's choice for his revamped second-term, national security team is expected next week. Hagel cleared the threshold when five-t... Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:43:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1906734-hagel-support-defense-secretary.html 2013-02-21T23:43:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1895506-lawmakers-probe-shortfall-job-corps-program.html WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate lawmakers are investigating a nearly $100 million shortfall at the federal Job Corps program that has prompted the Labor Department to freeze enrollment at all 125 job centers around the country. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has called on the agency's inspector general to investigate "serious questions about the management by ... Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:11:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1895506-lawmakers-probe-shortfall-job-corps-program.html 2013-02-16T09:11:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1838770-recognition-sought-church-bombing-victims.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 50 years ago, white supremacists planted a bomb in a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four young girls preparing to worship, an act of terror that shocked the nation and propelled Congress to pass that historic 1964 Civil Rights Act. Lawmakers now want to honor those victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing with the C... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1838770-recognition-sought-church-bombing-victims.html 2013-01-22T20:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1814246-kerrys-words-assad-to-draw-scrutiny.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry has held up Syria as a country that could bring peace and stability to the Mideast and predicted that the now-disgraced government of President Bashar Assad would pursue a legitimate relationship with the United States. Those assertions are certain to draw scrutiny at Kerry's confirmation hearing to be secretary of state as Assad's brutal cr... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1814246-kerrys-words-assad-to-draw-scrutiny.html 2013-01-11T19:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1801202-talk-gop-primaries-fiscal-cliff-vote.html DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives. These lawmakers wasted little time in attempting to deliver an explanation that would be acceptable to the tea party and the GOP's right flank, ... Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1801202-talk-gop-primaries-fiscal-cliff-vote.html 2013-01-05T16:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749596-leading-conservative-demint-resigning-senate-seat.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Jim DeMint, patron saint of the tea party and a would-be Republican kingmaker, announced suddenly Thursday he would resign his South Carolina seat to head Washington's conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, a shift that reverberated through a soul-searching GOP. Just two years into a second, six-year term, DeMint said he would... Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1749596-leading-conservative-demint-resigning-senate-seat.html 2012-12-06T21:42:00Z