A 39-year-old man was arrested and indicted Friday in connection with dozens of threatening letters containing a powdery substance that were sent recently to congressional offices and members of the media, the Justice Department said.
Senator Barbara Mikulski is set to become the longest serving female senator in history. Dana Bash spoke with her.
Barbara Mikulski remembers what a man's world the Senate was when she arrived 24 years ago.
Recently, we completed an intensive, bipartisan six-month study on cybersecurity and presented it to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Two U.S. senators from Maryland are expressing concerns that a year after a deadly commuter train wreck near Washington there are still safety problems in the transit system known as Metro.
CNN's Candy Crowley asks Sens. Lamar Alexander and Barbara Mikulski how Obama's student loan plan ties to health care.
I've been digesting the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for two weeks now. And I'm still swallowing hard.
The Senate on Wednesday narrowly rejected a controversial measure to allow people to carry concealed weapons from state to state.
March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history. But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March?
The economic stimulus plan is unlikely to help boost the auto industry because some say tax incentives for car purchases won't save buyers nearly as much as had been originally proposed.
With auto sales at crisis levels, Washington is trying to figure out how to get Americans buying cars again.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Wednesday that would make it easier for people to sue over pay discrimination, an effort to roll back a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that limited such cases.
The Senate immigration compromise was effectively killed Thursday, failing to pass a critical procedural hurdle.
Jeffrey Liss had finished making his selections on Maryland's Democratic-primary ballot and strolled out of the polling place at Chevy Chase Elementary School on the morning of March 2, Super Tuesday.
A fresh salvo was fired Tuesday in the fight to save the Hubble Space Telescope. Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski accused NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe of making a unilateral decision to let the observatory die prematurely against the wishes of astronomers.
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
Okay, Michael Barnes, we agree that rote memory is not what the citizens necessarily look for in senior solons. We also agree it's not easy to answer questions thrown at you suddenly when onstage a...
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