Egg recall points up need for Senate action on food safety:
08/24/2010 The Washington Post

SALMONELLA enteritidis is a food-borne illness so common that the Food and Drug Administration moved last year to enact rules first proposed during the Bill Clinton administration. The new monitoring and safety requirements didn't go into effect until las month. That was too late to....

Senate Approves $600M for Border Security:
08/05/2010 foxnews.com

WASHINGTON--The Senate agreed Thursday to add $600 million to the effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the U.S. Mexican border.
The money would be used for such purposes as adding 1,500 new enforcement agents and deploying ....