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President Obama is set to deliver a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday night in which he will present a proposal to boost the economy and create jobs. This proposal will apparently include a call for another extension of federal unemployment benefits.

The National Women’s Law Center recently released a report that lists all statewide measures prohibiting abortion coverage in state health care exchanges. # Florida joined Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia this year in enacting such legislation. The report shows that many of the bills have “narrow exceptions for women’s health” and have, in effect, taken health benefits away from women

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Nebraska Gov

In five minutes, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska.) announced she would skip the 2010 gubernatorial race, resign her own office at the end of July (her term is up

For two weeks, Republicans cited polls from Rasmussen Reports to prove that the stimulus package proposed by Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats was

Obama promised immigration reform in 2008, and immigrants rights advocates have not forgotten that he broke his promise. The president attempted to play damage

Despite his party losing a critical Iowa Senate special election on Nov. 8, Republican Gov

Earlier today, I participated in a call on financial regulatory reform with Heather Booth, the executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, Damon

Because it’s 5 p.m. on a July Friday, the leaders of the Senate intelligence committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.), have announced that

The Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force has issued a preliminary report recommending that Guantanamo Bay detainees be tried in federal court for

In response to concerns over the term “Occupy Albuquerque”, the protest movement has renamed itself “ (Un)occupy Albuquerque .” The decision was made in a general assembly meeting of protesters othe University of New Mexico campus. As the New Mexico Independent reported last week, some of the ’99 percenters’ objected to the association of the word ‘Occupy’ with what one Daily Kos contributor called “…five-hundred years of forced occupation of lands, resources, cultures, power, and voices by the imperial powers of both Spain and the United States

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis raked in $64,306 between Oct. 15 and Nov.

“Bob Bauer doesn’t have the DNA to be an ethics czar,” says Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation.

Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) tells The Washington Post that there will be no new bank bailout if financial companies suffer serious losses due to the recent

It’s a token of how surprised people are by Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign in Kentucky that a poll showing him 19 points up is spun this way by the

Even if the White House pitch included measures to help homeowners, experts say restructuring disparate, toxic mortgages would prove difficult. With an embedded TWI/ANP video, Pain on Main St.

Gov. Terry Branstad and Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn want Nevada to move its caucus date from Jan. 14 to Jan

The official line coming from the six GOP senators who sponsored, then voted against, the failed proposal to create a deficit commission was that they didn’t

He may not have officially declared his candidacy yet, but Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty continues to make it clear that he plans to run for the Republican

Iran may not be in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. North Korea withdrew from it in 2003. According to the Obama administration’s new

This morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) raised the prospect that the Senate might hold another vote on extending federal unemployment insurance benefits before

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