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Nothing shocking here. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the chamber floor this morning to decry the Democrats’ $848 billion health reform

With a Republican National Committee lawyer calling on the Federal Elections Commission to investigate the Obama campaign for accepting contributions in excess

The right plans to take aim at Obama’s bi-partisan image in 2010 with Supreme Court fodder.

Speaking of businesses making money from the downturn, The New York Times reports today on how the real estate industry is trying to cash in on the glut in

So, between health care reform and the New START nuclear reduction treaty with Russia, this is kind of a big week for President Obama. And you know who agrees?

Following up on my story this morning, here is the audio of David Koch, the libertarian billionaire who’s also chairman of the board of Americans for

Via Dana Goldstein, Ali Gharib makes the stellar point that what’s going on in Iran is reaffirmation of the Islamic Revolution, not a repudiation of it. Kate

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a symbol of failed diplomacy in Iraq. Last year the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform documented

The agency recently approved 42 of 48 Appalachian mining projects, raising questions about the extent to which EPA will prioritize water over industry.

As if you needed another reason to worry about the banks’ power.

I’m not surprised that there’s a grassroots Website urging the selection of physician and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as the next secretary of health and

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who’s mounting a somewhat under-covered Senate campaign in 2010, got the crowd on his side at the Value Voter Summit by mocking former

In an opinion piece published Sunday in The Miami Herald , Carl Hiaasen says that recent GOP attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency “ignore the problem” and that claims that the agency is a “job killer” are attempts to get campaign donations from petroleum and coal conglomerates. # Conservatives have certainly come out hard against the EPA in recent months. Hiaasen cites a speech by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, who recently told an Iowa crowd : “I guarantee you the EPA will have doors locked and lights turned off, and they will only be about conservation.

Although Latino voters generally prefer Democratic candidates, reports of low enthusiasm among registered voters a few weeks ago seemed to indicate that few

Quite a catch by Jason Pye--Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), who has waged a fairly under-the-radar campaign to demand President Obama’s birth certificate, was asked

The latest revelations about the deaths of three men at Guantanamo are consistent with a broader trend in how the U.S. government has tried to conceal the circumstances of deaths in U.S. custody and shield U.S. officials from liability.

With the Obama administration revealing today that health-care spending in 2008 saw its smallest rise since 1960, long-time health policy reporter Merrill

Durbin and Schumer are preparing for a leadership battle in case Reid loses reelection. But even Schumer could be vulnerable. Rumors of a secret

The Washington Post’s Karen DeYoung reports that after a tense week, the Obama administration believes neither a Taliban takeover nor a military coup is in

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