... independents to go to the next step.Cue Arkansas' senior senator, Blanche Lincoln.She is one of three senators (Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana) who didn't jump on the Democratic bandwagon. Nelson has come around of ...

... doing all he could to encourage Congress to act. He met Thursday morning with two potential Senate swing votes, Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine. On Wednesday, he met with a group of Senate Republicans in the White House ...

... until lawmakers were assured precise details. "I think they need to be kept elsewhere, wherever that is," said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. "I don't want to see them come on American soil." A top Obama ally, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois ...

... critical," they said in a letter to the Senate leaders of both parties. The letter was signed by Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, as well as Maine Republican Sens. Susan Collins and ...

... scoreless until the 14:02 mark of the third quarter. In addition to Fox and Brisson, scoring goals for Hendrix were: Ben Nelson (2), Zach Doelger, Don Geders (2), Dan Abernathy, Tim Wojick (2) and Justin Fortier. Nelson and Wojick led ...

... final round of concessions. - Advertisement - Architects of the compromise included Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who represented a broader group of moderates unhappy that so much money went into programs they thought ...

... since they represent the least controversial examples of short-term, quick-spending aid in the two bills. Sens. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, worked to scrub some less plausibly stimulative stuff from the Senate bill ...

... leader, adding that rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties want the bill's cost reduced. One Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, said he hoped for reductions "in the tens of billions of dollars." The developments unfolded as more ...

... This is unprecedented in terms of the slow nature of this storm, the large circulation and the fact that it's impacted probably about 90 percent of the state with heavy rains and severe weather," state meteorologist Ben Nelson said.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- The state of Nebraska -- including former Gov. Ben Nelson and several of his appointees -- purposefully delayed reviewing an application to construct a low-level radioactive waste dump ...