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It was the most significant tax measure to appear before any U.S.

Michael Steele plans a Fire Pelosi bus tour. The Delaware GOP chair received a death threat for backing RINOs. Mitch McConnell tells the GOP not to

More than one week after initial reporting by the LGBT-news blog Good As You, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) finally addressed its usage of

David Dayen of Firedoglake talks to the potential Democratic spoiler in Indiana, gets some of the same canned quotes from Tamyra D’Ippolito as Jonathan Martin,

1. Any ballpark estimate -- any number at all, really -- of how many Americans had their communications intercepted by the NSA through the President’s

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FOX News just broke the story (with few details) that eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (R) will announce his resignation today after it came to light that

I’ve spotlighted retired Lt. Col. Allen West as one of the GOP’s most credible African-American candidates for Congress this year--he lost a 2008 bid in his

This sort of reactionary tripe was perhaps inevitable: A small group of German officers opposed the loyalty oath to Hitler despite great political pressure.

That’s what Rep. Pete Stark, chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, implied today, according to The Hill. The California Democrat said that the

Less than two weeks after Goldman Sachs posted record quarterly profits, some congressional lawmakers are wondering if the Wall Street giant isn’t taking

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

Dodd’s exit will weaken strengthen financial reform. Shorter John McCain: I’m the man. The EPA declares war on smog. Congress tackles football

The McChrystal strategy review already presents something of a lacunae between an assessment of the damage done to the mission by Afghan governmental corruption

Scaled-back health reform is a fantasy. Krugman’s losing patience with the House approach to health care. But most Americans want Congress to put the

Via David Dayen, Tom Braithwaite at the Financial Times reports a blockbuster for proponents of strong bank reform: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) provision to

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message: The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your

It’s just an early version -- or so the Democrats are saying -- but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for

The tea party movement, a phenomenon that many deem responsible for installing Florida’s all-Republican cabinet and turning over control of the House of Representatives to the GOP, continues to demonstrate its influence throughout the state and the country.

On Tuesday, we broke the story of an undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel memo from 2007 about what interrogation techniques were and weren’t legal for the CIA

A rare joint talk Thursday exposed some differences their countries have with the Obama administration’s new strategy to confront extremism in South Asia, as well as with each other.