Suspense in Senate: Debt Vote shrouded in Secrecy

By Andrew Taylor AP World Magazine WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial markets were watching, the retirement accounts of millions of Americans on the line. Nervous senators were watching too, well aware that political fortunes could be on the line. So on perhaps the...

PILT money finds its way into compromise farm bill

by Thomas Mitchell4th St8 Gannett’s Washington bureau is reporting that the new farm bill cobbled together today does in fact contain funding for PILT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes,) just as Nevada Rep. Mark Amodei and other Western congressmen were promised earlier when...