Attorney General Martha Coakley is promising to work to improve security at airports, seaports, borders, and nuclear plants and waste sites, if she is elected to the US Senate seat left vacant by the death of long-time Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

While Congress has enacted some of the suggestions in the 9/11 Commission report, which outlined steps to improve security after the 2001 attacks, "I believe more work needs to be done to keep America safe," Coakley said in a nine-page white paper on homeland security issued today by her campaign.

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Democratic party leaders from the county and state turned out for the Carroll County Democratic Committee's 14th annual Grover Cleveland recent held Sunday afternoon at the Brass Heart Inn.

The crowd welcomed keynote speaker First District Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) and guest speaker Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH) who is running as the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate. This was Hodes' first visit to Carroll County as a candidate for U.S. Senate

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U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Colo., has introduced the Credit Card Rate Freeze Act, designed to immediately freeze interest rates on consumer credit card accounts.

“I've heard disturbing stories from Coloradans across my district that their credit card companies are suddenly and unfairly hiking their interest rates before the Credit CARD Act takes effect,” Markey said in a press release from her office.

“These are exactly the kinds of abuses this law will prohibit, but before the ink was dry on the bill, credit card companies were looking for ways to get around the critical protections that Colorado families demanded. I totally opposed bailing out these Wall Street banks, but American taxpayers were still forced to come to the rescue, only to have their credit card companies turn around and stick it to them. It's absolutely wrong and I'm fighting it,” she said.

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For months, Senate aides, lobbyists and environmentalists have fretted that Barbara Boxer’s abrasive legislative style would tank the climate bill.

But when the California Democrat finally released a 923-page climate change bill late Friday, some of her harshest critics admitted that she had gotten it right. She did it by negotiating with coal state senators and ceding some of the limelight to Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), all while holding the line with liberal special interests.

Boxer “has been very good in terms of reaching out to members on the committee and folks off the committee, asking what our concerns and needs are and trying to be responsive to those,” said Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), the leader of a group of coal state Democrats working on the bill. “With respect to coal, Sen. Boxer has been fair, Sen. Kerry has been fair, and my hope is we’ve gotten closer to what people need.”

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