Bill Rieflin

Handing out a huge Christmas eve political victory to President Barack Obama, the US Senate today passed a landmark USD 871 billion healthcare bill, the centrepiece of his domestic agenda, that will extend medicare services to 31 million un-insured Americans. Read More

The United States Senate today approved a USD 290 billion increase in debt-limit; thus giving the Obama Administration another two months of borrowing authority. Read More

Federal health care legislation has caused a split between Missouri's two senators — and its two leading Senate candidates. Read More

"Americans believe that on issues of this importance, one party should never be allowed to force its will on the other half of the nation," Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor. Read More

A complaint was filed Monday in Marin Superior Court that says between 60 and 150 people on 31 parcels were left out of the Nov. 3 election for the Novato Sanitary District Board. Read More

To get the 60 votes he needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Reid, a Nevada Democrat, sweetened the pot for some senators, including Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat. Read More

Last week's Remember When "mystery photo" showed Bill Bunner and Donna Cook Freeman holding a drawing of a Bulldog that Bill created. Read More