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From the anti-AIG bonus tax statement of Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who is no one’s idea of a disloyal Republican: The blame for these bonuses rests solely

The oil and gas industry’s water needs may be just a sliver of all the water use across Texas — less than one percent, according to one recent study — but

In the spirit of self-criticism, something that I see my New START coverage has taken for granted is the support of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the leading

As chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) uncovered critical information about the worst reported abuses of power in the Bush administration.

In 2005, a group of toxicologists published a study suggesting that mothers whose urine contained high levels of an important component of plastics were

As predicted this morning, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was ousted in a landslide 2006 win by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), used his prebuttal to

As the Senate awaits the cap-and-trade bill expected to be released sometime before the end of September, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is looking for ways to get

Yesterday President Obama announced his intent to establish a system of preventive detention to stop would-be terrorists from carrying out an act of war --

As a number of Democrats are eying the political advantages of President Obama’s newly announced offshore oil drilling strategy, Sen. Ben Cardin has another

Sean Quinn at 538 hears that Republican National Committee members are ready to oust chairman Michael Steele if the party loses the NY-20 race, the battle for

Virginia’s Tom Davis, the ranking Republican on the House oversight committee, told The Washington Independent that the Iraq war is a war we fought where we

I asked in an earlier post just what the State Department did with information provided by ArmorGroup whistleblower John Gorman that the office of Sen. Joe

Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform just hosted a meeting of Republican/conservative/libertarian techie types—everyone from MyManMitt.com founder

Beef officially squashed. Here’s what Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said about CIA director-(quasi-)designate Leon Panetta to reporters outside the Senate

An operator of DTE’s Fermi 2 nuclear plant in Monroe has been relieved of duty after testing positive for illegal drugs. “A licensed operator had a confirmed positive for an illegal drug during a random fitness-for-duty test,” plant officials said in a report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “The employee’s access to the plant has been terminated.” The incident is said to have occurred at 1:30pm on May 5

MSNBC host Chris Matthews this week asked Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, head of the congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, about how the anti-abortion bills introduced as a top priority in the Republican-controlled House might affect Americans should they become law. DeGette said that, from the perspective of women’s health care, the bills are “riddled with little land mines.” Matthews zeroed in on Rep

I’m a little late to Stephen Colbert’s parody of Glenn Beck’s 2012 doomsday show — something I’d thought was beyond parody. Colbert delivers the goods, as

When the Supreme Court ruled last week in a controversial 5-4 decision that prisoners have no constitutional right to obtain available DNA evidence that could

The Lowe’s logo (Pic via melissabargains.com ) Petitions containing over 200,000 signatures were delivered to Lowe’s corporate headquarters today, protesting the company’s recent decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality series All-American Muslim . More than 42,000 signatures came from supporters of People for the American Way, which recently called on Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock to “reject the bigotry of right-wing extremists and reinstate its ads on the show.” Earlier this month, Lowe’s (and several other companies) pulled ads from the program in response to pressure from the Florida Family Association, a group that objected to the show’s portrayal of American Muslims as “ordinary folks just like you and me.” Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way, issued the following statement earlier today: Lowe’s set a dangerous precedent by caving in to a fringe group that preaches intolerance toward fellow Americans. The TLC program portrays Muslim Americans as the everyday people they are – people who go to work, go to school and pay taxes.

Well, of course it’s Tax Day, and while we’ve been a bit preoccupied with all the wacky Tea Party hijinks, it also means that we get to take a look at the

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as