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The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved legislation empowering states to create public insurance plans that would negotiate rates on behalf of some of

Source: Gfpeck, Flickr A bill recently introduced by congressmen from Pennsylvania and Illinois could have a far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 union workers on Aug. 1

More bad news for the economy as the latest report from the Department of Labor shows a jump in new weekly unemployment claims to 429,000, a jump of 9,000. The four-week average remains at 426,250 claims

Sen. Scott Dibble told Minnesota Public Radio that 100,000 emails sent to legislators by gay marriage supporters were clogging the servers and that the Senate IT department was set to delete them Monday morning. The emails, sent through the Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBT rights group, chided Republicans and a handful of DFLers who voted Saturday night to put a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot in 2012.

On July 1, two Republican members of Missouri’s state legislature, and a representative of one other member, showed up at meetings called by Orly queen of the

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential candidate who edged out an eight-vote victory over Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses, has a long track record on education that includes standardized testing and accountability, charter schools and school vouchers. Education Week writes : Romney has a long record and a lot of ideas on education redesign.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) echoed Afghan human rights official Nader Nadery: What prevents the Community Defense Initiative, in which the U.S. backs local

Former John Edwards speechwriter Wendy Button’s mini-memoir of the mess is worth reading, especially her account of how he replaced her words -- I lied --

After starting the week with a final closing argument speech on Monday, Sen. Barack Obama returns to his starting argument today, with an address again

Female members of the U.S. Senate made clear Friday that they have no intention of “throwing women under the bus” by giving in to Republican demands to approve several policy riders attached to a budget bill designed to keep the federal government operational. “Since they (Republicans) don’t know how to create jobs, they’ve changed the topic to their radical approach to the budget,” said U.S.

I’m still trying to figure out just what happened with Peter Galbraith, the possibly-former top American on the United Nations’ Afghanistan team who reportedly

This New York Times piece about a shift in the NATO-Afghan plan to secure Kandahar from Taliban insurgents to a focus on civilian efforts is kind of

A long-awaited filing Thursday in the al-Haramain case presents a dare to the Obama administration.

In an interview with Pakistan’s Dawn-TV, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out some goals for her trip this week to Pakistan. I talk about

I usually ignore partisan Web videos that aren’t backed by real media buys, but this one out today from the Republican National Committee, a sequel to this one,

Mohammed Jawad has been ordered released after a court ruled his confession coerced, but the Department of Justice is now considering criminal charges based on new evidence.

Another major corporation announced on Wednesday that it’s leaving the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity over concerns about the group’s efforts to

The official readout from yesterday’s White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy was predictably uninformative. (When it come to decisions as

COLUMBUS – The Hell’s Angels of the 1960s infamously wore patches on their filthy vests embroidered with the inscription “1%-er,” a rebellious response

Fred Grimm at The Miami Herald has a great column today on how the oil spill has not been a driving factor in the midterm elections in Florida and around 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