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Speaking just before the Audit the Fed amendment went to vote (ongoing now), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill,

It’s going to be a nightmare for the government if they have to constantly close the hearing to talk about things that are embarrassing to the government, says David Frakt, former defense counsel for a juvenile held at Guantanamo Bay.

The border fence has become something of a political minefield for President Obama.

That’s the idea that was being tossed around yesterday in the Senate, where several White House officials testified before the Banking Committee on the early

It puts any housing recovery in jeopardy, says Barry Zigas of the Consumer Federation of America.

Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) denounced Arizona’s Senate bill 1070 during a press conference on Capitol Hill and urged Gov. Jan

Not much will stop the right from insisting that the Obama administration’s outreach to Syria is undone by the Syria insurgent pipeline to Iraq re-opening,

Most Americans are concerned that Afghanistan will become another Vietnam. The Pentagon is becoming more critical of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Times runs

Our finance writer Mary Kane reports that a bruised, battered and little-noticed federal agency responsible for insuring mortgages is about to take a prominent

Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a California-based religious right webcast on Mar.

For the second day in a row, here’s State Department spokesman Robert Wood eliding the issue of how to conditionalize aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He’s

As Michigan Democrats are scratching their heads over how to resolve the dilemma of their uncounted primary delegates, the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

Car manufacturers looking for a bailout in December pledged to meet standards they now call unreasonable.

The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff

In his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Congress’s Phony War on Torture,” William McGurn takes congressional Democrats to task for not immediately

It seems that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Commerce Department, doesn’t exactly believe in the necessity of that

I’m way late to this party -- stupid Panetta hearing! -- but judging from this interview with Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the GOP has apparently decided to

Orly Taitz, the birther attorney who gained a sort of official movement leadership status with this week’s appearence on The Colbert Report, is bragging

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