By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON – Last year, upon the surprise retirement of then-Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, former independent Gov. Angus King mounted a campaign to succeed her based on the theme that the Senate was broken – and that he would devote himself to ending the partisan gridlock that has stymied...
By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON – In the first congressional hearing focused on the Boston Marathon bombing, members of the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday probed the successes and failures of interagency cooperation immediately following the April 15 attacks. Members of the...
By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON – With the 2014 general election still more than a year and a half away, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H. and Susan Collins, R-Maine – both of whom could face competitive re-election bids – are already busy stocking...
By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON- On Nov. 16, 2009, Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died of heart failure in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina Prison, after eight guards are alleged to have beaten him with rubber batons for more than an hour. An ambulance crew...
By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON – Amid contentious debate over a proposal to impose sales taxes on online purchases, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, took to the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon to deliver his maiden speech — a tradition in which new senators...
By Edward Donga/BU Washington News Service WASHINGTON – With Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, playing host, a number of their Senate colleagues – along with legislative staff and other guests — gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening to sample fare from...
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