"This will be awful," Delegate John A. Cosgrove, Chesapeake Republican, said of the Senate plan for congressional districts that, he says, slices up Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Prince William County and Hanover. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis announces in April 2011 that he's running for the New Jersey state Senate. (AP Photo)
Former interim Sen. George LeMieux, Florida Republican, on Tuesday announced a bid to return to the Senate. (Associated Press)
"We are ready to roll up our sleeves and get this bill done," said Sen. John D. Rockfeller IV, West Virginia Democrat. "I am confident that we can work through all the differences between the House and Senate versions of this bill." (Associated Press)
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman and Peter Pantuso, president of the American Bus Association, testified Wednesday at a Senate transportation subcommittee hearing on improving the safety of passengers on the country's large buses, or motorcoaches. Crashes in the past decade have taken dozens of lives. (Associated Press)
"We have a government that seems to be against us. Nobody's cheering for anything coming out of Washington," said George Allen, who is seeking to return to the U.S. Senate. But a rival for the GOP nomination is criticizing Mr. Allen for backing budgets that raised the federal debt by $3.2 trillion during his Senate term. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
Rep. Allen B. West, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last month, has been in Congress only since January, but there already is talk of a Senate run in 2012 or possibly a spot on the presidential ticket. But first, he says, "I've got to prove myself as a capable legislator, political leader." (Associated Press)
Opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill, including C.J. Terrell demonstrate outside the senate parlor at the Wisconsin State Capitol Building as legislators inside voted to move forward on an amended version of the controversial bill Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The new bill removes the fiscal elements from the bill and strips public employees of collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
Tears roll down the face of Liz Sanger of Madison, Wis., after the state Senate passed the budget repair bill following a meeting of a state Legislature conference committee at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Wednesday evening, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King)
