A Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, cutting aid to Islamabad by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason.

The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved language that would distinguish between Palestinian refugees alive in 1948 and their descendants.

As we've chronicled here in great detail over the past year, House Republicans are no pikers when it comes to conservative legislation.

The U.S. Senate passed a new Iran sanctions bill that would strengthen the existing sanctions regime and close loopholes.

A bipartisan effort by Illinois senators is underway to keep Coast Guard facilities open in Waukegan and Muskegon, Mich. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk said the Senate Committee on Appropriations voted Tuesday on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding measure which included language denying President Obama's 2013 budget request to close seasonal Coast Guard air facilities in Waukegan and Muskegon.