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State Auditor Hector Balderas raised $400,000 in the first two months of his candidacy for an open U.S. Senate seat in 2012, showing that he could mount a serious challenge to Rep.

Many legislatures have rejected ’Arizona-style’ legislation out of concern for the price tag.

Shortly after Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told a Senate panel this morning that we are regaining the initiative and insurgency

Shorter ACLU: Go back and do that again. Longer ACLU, from Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU Human Rights Program: While we welcome the Obama

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee finished hearing directly from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan yesterday, after 17 hours of question-and-answer

An eastern Iowa man will run for House District 68, which includes Marion and the surrounding areas, he announced today. Daniel Lundby, 35, son of the late state Sen. Mary Lundby , will run as a Democrat, though he has previously identified as a Republican

A state panel in California yesterday approved a proposal to require 33 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020. Environmentalists

TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded

Later this month, the Texas Senate is expected to vote on the 2012-13 $164.5 billion budget that passed the House earlier this month.The House version includes

Last night, the House passed the so-called “Cut, Cap and Balance Act” in a largely symbolic 234-190 vote. Because of its cuts, the bill isn’t likely to make headway in the Democrat-dominated Senate, but what does the act aim to do and who among Florida’s congressional delegation voted for it? # The basics of the plan : # Cut: Requires nearly $111 billion cuts in spending.

On election day, a candidate’s website becomes a crucial hub for outreach and mobilization. In another sign of their drastically different approaches to

Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. (More data below.) Last week,

Laura Rozen is at The Hague to report on tomorrow’s United Nations summit on Afghanistan, which the Iranians have agreed to attend. Rozen finds the Iranians

Alan Schram at Seeking Alpha takes some notes at the annual conference of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment firm run by the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.

As expected, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are circulating a new draft of their climate change proposal among industry and

Former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich is expected to officially announce his presidential candidacy for 2012 Wednesday, according to his Facebook page.

This Reuters article talks about all the defense firms that hope Massachusetts’ next senator is as friendly. While I suppose Kennedy’s status as a liberal icon

Two Iowa labor experts — one a former labor attorney with more than 25 years experience and the other a communications professor who has extensively studied labor and the media — agree that it is difficult to view actions taken by the chairman of the U.S.

Patterico brings to my attention this argument from blogger Brad Friedman: n mid-February of this year, after we’d called out O’Keefe as a liar for

I don’t believe it either, but, via Bill Roggio, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says Pakistani intelligence believe it to be so but don’t have any, like,