Today, US Senator Charles E. Schumer announced a landmark agreement that will create the first-ever partnership between the federal government and University of Albany's College of Nanoscale Scie...

The Senate Finance Committee will investigate “just how the government decided to front $30 billion in taxpayer dollars for the Bear Stearns deal,” in the words of Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is chairman of the panel. He and the committee’s ranking Republican, Senator Charles E. Gra ...