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A mandatory-ultrasound bill is not the only Republican proposal that seeks to restrict abortion rights sure to come up in the state legislature during its upcoming session — limiting access to abortion is clearly a top priority for GOP legislators.

Via Roll Call, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said today that he expects the Congressional Budget Office to be done scoring his health

The Washington Post previews a speech that top Obama counterterrorism aide John Brennan will give later this morning at the Center for Strategic and

The Virginia Republican Party has a lot on its shoulders this year — a failure to take back the governor’s mansion will slow the GOP momentum going in to the

On Thursday, the Republican Party of Iowa announced that the all-important Ames Straw Poll will be held Aug. 13, 2011. The Straw Poll has traditionally been

There are something like 900,000 Pakistanis internally displaced because of the ongoing fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani military, according to

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, is no fan of the insurance industry, as was made perfectly clear

The State Employees International Union’s Healthcare Minnesota and Minnesota State Council came out against the budget deal Gov.

The United States today released Fouad Mahmoud Al Rabiah to his native Kuwait after holding him for nearly eight years at Guantanamo Bay. According to the

I talked briefly with Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) at an early-morning House GOP briefing by Republican members of Congress on the impact of the August recess, and

So the insult stands, apparently: In the face of sharp American disapproval of an Israeli plan for an East Jerusalem building project, Prime Minister Benjamin

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on Face the Nation Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president’s cabinet --

This weekend, TWI sister site The Michigan Messenger spoke with Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), a gubernatorial hopeful, about his involvement in the famed C

Reuters reports that Afghanistan’s parliament quietly passed a blanket amnesty for human-rights abuses committed before the fall of the Taliban. A war widow

A reader over at TPM flags a very revealing quote from an anonymous Bush administration official in a New York Times article about the state of the government’s

A victory for the Obama administration: As expected, the United Nations Security Council just voted to place new economic sanctions on Iran. Months of doubt

There’s not really much of a way that a secretary of defense can play a role in the health care fight. But Robert Gates last night sent out a statement letting

Rep. Fred Upton published an op-ed piece in the Washington Times this week, arguing that the key to job creation is to eliminate federal environmental regulations. Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council responded to Upton, accusing him of distorting the study he cited

Newt Gingrich at the 2010 Value Voters Summit (ZumaPress)

Under a taxpayer-funded program free from congressional oversight, Treasury officials paid for bank assets at a flat rate, rather than adjusting for risk.

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