Vitter says he makes it his priority to keep Louisiana residents informed on issues by holding town hall meetings in all 64 parishes during every Congress.
So many things are there for our leaders to address. We keep hearing about how taxes are going to go up at the end of the year and how we are set to run off a fiscal cliff. We hear about how people are going to be losing their jobs and livelihoods over it and how our leaders need to do something about it...
Arlen Specter, the bristly former Republican senator from Pennsylvania who often made headlines by playing the political center and confounding Republican colleagues in the Senate, died today at age 82. According to Specter's family, his death was due to complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The US Senate has passed a sweeping tax package that would save millions of Americans thousands of dollars in higher taxes for the next two years while reducing their Social Security taxes and extending jobless benefits.