WASHINGTON After a week of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Friday passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments looming for months.But the last-ditch effort came too late.Moments after the Senate acted, Medicare announced it would begin processing claims it has already received for June at the lower rate.The reason: the House cannot act on the fix until next week.Th
Months of television advertising in costly California appears to have paid off for Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina, who's polling head of her rivals in next week's Republican primary and starting to act as though she's already the GOP nominee against Democrat Barbara Boxer. Fiorina is on the air with an ad in which she looks squarely at the camera and says, We've had enough of her politics.I'll wor