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House members on health care: Who’s undecided and why? Boehner: If I am speaker, I will run the House differently from both Dem and past GOP leadership. Key

Democratic Populism is all the rage. As we enter the final phase of the caucuses and primaries, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama

The problem is this: The health reform bill to be taken up by the Senate Finance Committee this week requires that nearly everyone have insurance coverage, but

The Associated Press has been digging into Gov. Sarah Palin’s record as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, to find some astonishing examples of ethically questionable

KDKA in Pittsburgh has video of angry conservatives protesting and heckling Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) over his support for the economic stimulus package.

Outside a campaign event in New Hampshire this morning, Gov. Rick Perry stopped to chat with a 9-year-old boy whose mom, as the New York Times tells it, was

Today, in the Senate’s first session since early August, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, proposed freezing income tax rates for all

This week, senators will start formally considering amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill. Already, Sen. Barbara Boxer

I’ve been reading the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil charges of Goldman Sachs and one of its vice presidents carefully. It’s a complicated case

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Health care lobbying has almost doubled in 2009. The gun lobby claim that the Senate health bill would allow the government to crack down on gun

Latino voters support the Affordable Health Care Act , but do not support the mandate to purchase coverage, according to a poll released Thursday. Conducted by ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions (IM-LD) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, the poll reveals “that 50% of Latino voters support the Affordable Health Care Act and only 29% support its repeal,” adding that “59% of these voters are not well disposed toward one of the law’s regulations, which makes it mandatory for them to purchase insurance if they do not have coverage

Last week’s Roll Call report is confirmed: former Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind.) is the new head of the Club for Growth. The lede: The current president, Pat

After eight years researching mercury levels in the nation’s streams, scientists at the United States Geological Survey unveiled some bad news yesterday: Every

The Florida Senate passed a pill mill bill today, but not without some hurdles. Though they are both in agreement that Florida has a troubling prescription drug overdose problem, state Rep. Rob Schenck, R-Spring Hill, and Sen.

We should be getting the final round of specifics from the Pentagon about what programs and platforms and systems and operations are funded at what level for

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters today that he supports the public option, which twice failed in the Senate Finance Committee

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is going on the air for his 2010 re-election campaign, running two minute-long ads. One image that jumps out, from the ad titled Hard