Handing out a huge Christmas eve political victory to President Barack Obama, the US Senate on Thursday passed a landmark $871 billion healthcare bill, the centrepiece of his domestic agenda, that will extend medicare services to 36 million un-insured Americans.
They have approved a $636 bn military spending bill on Saturday.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-passes-biggestever-defence-spending-bill/107445-2.html
Pakistan will get about $1.5 bn a year for each of the next five years.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-senate-approves-bill-to-triple-aid-to-pak/102133-2.html
Tripling the civilian assistance amount will be $ 7.5 billion in the next five years.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-senate-passes-bill-to-triple-civilian-assistance-to-pak/95617-2.html
Legislation seeks to prevent fraud but may end up creating trade barriers.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india-inc-seeks-fair-play-slams-us-bill-on-h1b-visas/91044-7.html
The Senate approved the nomination on Wednesday by a vote of 94-2.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-senate-confirms-hillary-clinton-as-secretary-of-state/83370-2.html
She's singling out individuals who she believes crossed a line.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/82428/watch-sarah-palin-is-angry-and-hitting-it-back.html
Gov. Rod Blagojevich proclaimed on Friday that he was not guilty.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/illinois-governor-says-impeachment-vote-is-political/82399-2.html
Plan faltered when the bill failed to get enough support in a procedural vote.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/auto-industry-bailout-bill-fails-in-us-senate/80368-7.html
The money will be put into nine of the biggest banks in the US.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/us-treasury-to-pump-250-bn-into-banks-buy-shares/75821-7.html
The House had on Monday rejected Bush administration's bailout plan.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/74983/us-house-of-representatives-passes-bailout-bill.html
Richard Boucher speaks to CNN-IBN about the Indo-US nuclear deal.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/74974/exclusive-boucher-on-green-signal-to-ndeal.html
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