...risen instead and lawmakers want answers. "Can consumers expect to see cable rates decrease any time soon?" Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, asked cable executives Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary antitrust, business rights and competition...

...Republican slots opened on the health and education committee for next year. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., retired. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, was defeated by Rep. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. In addition, Democrats, whose Nov. 7 election victories...

...drugs to waiting trucks and desperate boaters ramming customs boats in an unsuccessful attempt to escape capture. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, pointed out that Cincinnati had 464 heroin arrests in 1999, compared to 19 in 1990. He said he will push...

...vote. He said he expects the 43 senators who voted against drilling - all but four Democrats as well as GOP Sens. Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island - not to yield to further pressures and change their vote. But no one believes...

...pro-drilling camp. Republican Sens. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and John McCain of Arizona wrote a letter to Frist strongly objecting to the...

...Tillerson, chief executive officer of ExxonMobil Corp., declined to respond in detail when asked to do so by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio. "Well, senator, I think it's regrettable that Mr. Boies has decided to try this case in front of...

...Mississippi Republican. The trip includes three days in Mexico City. Other senators on the trip are Republicans Mike DeWine of Ohio and Pat Roberts of Kansas and Democrat John Breaux of Louisiana. All the senators are accompanied by their...