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The White House sent a budget amendment to Congress last night that would set aside money for the reorganization of the Interior Department’s offshore drilling

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland

Ed Whelan digs up an April 17 speech by Sonia Sotomayor in which she praises the election of President Obama and says our challenge as lawyers and court

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas today leads the conservative wing of the Supreme Court in an unusual decision that rules that plaintiffs in age

The Wall Street Journal reports on a J.P. Morgan Chase analysis showing that the oil spill choking off fishing and tourism dollars to the Gulf might actually

PELLA — What does former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich consider to be the biggest single challenge facing America? Well, being honest about what the challenges actually are

Here’s what the country’s leading editorial boards had to say about Ted Kennedy. Michael Steele tries to reconcile his support for Medicare with his

Seriously, that’s the gist of a panel next week at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The peace-building think tank wants to explore the lessons of SMS-based

In a symbolic gesture, the Senate this afternoon approved a resolution calling for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democacy activist

A TWI analysis of tight House and Senate races finds the recession isn’t slowing the flow of money into lawmakers’ coffers.

“Dumb.” That’s how Rep. Betty McCollum characterized proposed cuts to federal family planning funding and a Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood. At a St

Testifying to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and former Citigroup executives Robert Rubin and Charles Prince passed

President George W. Bush, today, Carlisle, Penn., Army War College, magical-thinking tour: While there’s room for honest and healthy debate about the

On July 13, TWI contributor Alex Zaitchik wrote a brief follow-up to his profile of Libertarian Party media star Wayne Allyn Root, noting that Root had been

This weekend, hundreds of Tea Party activists gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to protest illegal immigration. Speakers and Tea Partiers proposed a

Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei report that the Obama administration is preparing to roll out a new strategy to advance its health care reform goals, and

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will face a House ethics trial over allegations that she intervened to encourage the bailout of a bank her husband owned stock in.

The list of amendments that Republicans are hoping will derail the health reconciliation bill moving through the Senate this week is an entertaining read, if

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) returns, and asks about intelligence warnings of Al Qaeda movement into the chaos of Somalia. What’s your view on what’s gone wrong

In a 249-179 vote, the House of Representatives last week passed an amendment to its budget plan that targets policy czars in the Obama administration (full