Grassroots battle over Alaska road
Environmentalists and local Alaska residents battled over a road project that would be the first ever to cut through a federally protected wilderness.
03:38 pm March 11, 2010
Scott Ferrell / Congressional Quarterly
SEIU political assistant Valerie Bachelor, and Athena Jones, a personal care assistant from Portsmouth, Va., in the union's legislative “war room."
The union centralized its national and grassroots efforts on health care in a Washington office, treating the overhaul like a candidate.
Environmentalists and local Alaska residents battled over a road project that would be the first ever to cut through a federally protected wilderness.
03:38 pm March 11, 2010
House Republicans voted to forgo earmark requests for a year, a move designed to one-up Democrats.
02:36 pm March 11, 2010
Environmentalists plan nationwide rallies to get a clean energy and climate bill through the Senate.
12:23 pm March 11, 2010
MTV star Heidi Montag stars in a Funny or Die video for the consumer finance protection agency.
11:10 am March 11, 2010
Lawmakers are debating whether to curb a Supreme Court ruling by requiring a vote on corporate political spending.
10:49 am March 11, 2010
Both chambers are working on bills to boost the economy, but some of the ideas may be politically impractical.
10:09 am March 11, 2010
The conservative grassroots movement that Republicans hope will help them in midterm elections could also hurt them.
09:25 am March 11, 2010
An advocacy group for musicians and record companies is taking an inflatable pig around the country to raise awareness.
03:33 pm March 10, 2010

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