The U.S. Senate has scheduled a new bailout bill vote for Wednesday night on a new version of the $700 billion financial rescue plan. New measures in the bill are designed to win the support of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, who rejected the previous version. VOA's Gabe Joselow reports from Washington.

Advancing the hope for an early Indo-US nuclear accord, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the Bill by 19 to 2, sending it to the full Senate (rpt) Senate.

Tests after Senator Edward Kennedy's seizure this past Saturday revealed that the Senator has a Malignant form of Brain Tumor.

The U.S. Senate will hold debates on two competing versions of an economic stimulus plan Thursday.

President George W Bush's administration has beat off the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit numbers of troops ready for deployment.

Roll Call today broke a story that Senator Larry Craig, a veteran republican senator from Idaho was arrested in in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom.

The Senate approved a package of security measures recommended by the 9/11 Commission, shifting more federal money to high-risk states and cities and requiring more stringent screening of air and sea cargo.

The U.S. Senate has been debating a military funding bill that would require President Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq in October. The measure is expected to pass Thursday in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The U.S. Senate - in defiance of a presidential veto threat - has voted 63 to 34 to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill.

The U.S. Senate has voted to support withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq by next March. The vote was close, 50 to 48, and mostly along party lines in the Senate, now just barely controlled by the opposition Democrats.