Blanche Lincoln

The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim on Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies. The last time...

In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. Two final...

United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and television/movie star Rosie O'Donnell today highlighted the goals of National Foster Care Month by introducing the Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2009. Sen. Landrieu and O'Donnell, joined by the...

African-American, Latino and civil rights groups have launched an ad campaign aimed at pressuring moderate Democratic senators to support health care legislation that allows the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry. The ads...

The battle over the federal budget has been playing out slowly in Congress for weeks, but it came galloping toward Maryland's thoroughbred farms recently in the form of a proposed tax increase. After threatening to trim the nation's ballooning budget...

According to plant officials, Whirlpool workers have never been busier; and today Senator Blanche Lincoln came to see how she could help them even more. Senator Lincoln met with plant officials and local legislators during her stop in Fort Smith. She'd...

It won't be the defining issue of the U.S. Senate race in Arkansas, but the U.S. Senate confirmation of Elena Kagan does spell out the political philosophies of Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Republican U.S. Rep. John Boozman. Today, the U.S. Senate...

The Senate approved a sweeping boost to school nutrition programs Thursday, adding $4.5 billion to bring more meals and healthier nutrition standards to low-income children nationwide. The legislation, approved without a vote under a bipartisan...

The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith will receive $220,000 a year for an anticipated five-year grant total of $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Education to fund Student Support Services programs. The grant announcement was made Aug. 10 by U.S....

David Whitaker is calling on national Democrats to extend the Bush tax cuts for middle-class Americans but "roll back those for the very wealthy." What's more, he says his position on tax cuts is different from that of Rogers Mayor Steve Womack who seeks...

All the state's leading politicians were in Fort Smith Tuesday to talk to the community. Governor Mike Beebe, Senator Mark Pryor, and Senator Blanche Lincoln were all speakers at a Night with the Senators. All the political stars were in one place...

Both Blanche Lincoln and John Boozman were in Arkansas Tuesday campaigning for the state's Senate Seat. Lincoln was in Hot Springs at a candidate forum hoping to win voters for the November election. And she may have her work cut out for her....