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Citing budget concerns, the Senate on Wednesday killed a $245 billion proposal to scrap the controversial formula that dictates doctor payments under

When pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer pay billion-dollar fines for illegal off-label marketing (promoting drugs for unapproved uses), prosecutors and the

Just released from the White House communications shop: The White House today announced that Deputy National Security Director and National Security Council

As we noted on Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee is in the midst of tackling financial regulatory reform, which has brought out the lobbyists in

Forgive me if this reads like I’m greasing a source, but as part of the holds on administration appointees released by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) last week,

White House Internet wizard Jesse Lee writes to defend the record of the solicitor general and Supreme Court nominee: Most prominently, a handful of Republican

There’s not much I can add at this point to Mark Mazzetti’s great scoop about the CIA hiring the-private-military-firm-formerly-known-as-Blackwater for its

Some conservatives are taking heart that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had second thoughts about trying 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan.

Luke Johnson’s piece on the Values Voters Summit, which took place in Washington this weekend, provides a nice look into the ongoing war over the importance of

In Afghanistan, you’ve got a war of unclear goals that everyone agrees has no military solution. But it’s also not clear if the alternative to open-ended

A few weeks back, President Obama made waves by announcing his support for an expansion of offshore oil drilling -- a strategy that Democrats on Capitol Hill

The Obama administration may circumvent the spirit of a judge’s order to disclose hundreds of documents relating to the CIA’s Bush-era interrogation program.

Via Scott Reckard at the L.A. Times, two companies released national reports yesterday showing a decline in serious mortgage delinquencies, when homeowners are

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin recently assured voters that she keeps a close watch from her perch in Wasilla when the Russian government rears its head on her

A lot of hubbub this morning surrounding a Huffington Post article that suggested the White House was willing to cave on its position of permanently extending

Elaine Silvestrini reports that Maj. Stefan F. Cook’s request for a Florida court to force Simtech into giving him his old job back has been dismissed, because

From the letter delivered to the Treasury secretary Monday from the office of Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform

TPMDC’s Brian Beutler reports that Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has announced he plans to vote to send the Senate health care bill to the Senate floor. Senate

Speaking of House seats ... the math geek readers of Swing State Project have released their latest round of data on congressional districts, calculating the

This afternoon, the Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, providing $4.5 billion to school lunch and other federal child-nutrition programs. If

It’s Groundhog Day in the Senate. After voting 85-2 yesterday to proceed to legislation extending unemployment benefits at least 14 weeks nationwide, the

It’s quite a spectacle to watch members of Congress -- all of whom have sworn an oath to support the U.S. Constitution -- brag about their disdain for the right