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There may be no better example of how the Senate’s holds and filibusters work now than this one -- Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.), who holds his job because his

In eighth-grade civics, I learned that the U.S. Senate had, and would continue to have, 100 members. Well, Mr. Miller, seems you didn’t tell me the whole

The oil and gas industry’s largest trade group will begin direct contributions to political candidates as it ramps up for a fight over the Obama administration’s proposal to cut billions in tax breaks for energy companies. “This is adding one more tool to our toolkit,” Martin Durbin, API’s executive vice president for government affairs, told Bloomberg in an interview. “At the end of the day, our mission is trying to influence the policy debate.” Energy company giving has been heavily weighted toward Republicans.

The U.S. economy gained 117,000 jobs in the month of July, a net increase driven entirely by the private sector. About 154,000 private sector jobs were created

Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s pick to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, was confirmed handily by the Senate just now by a vote of 57

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal

The Senate on Wednesday easily cleared the last procedural barrier standing in the way of passing legislation to extend unemployment insurance benefits as long

Lord knows I had my disagreements with Glenn Greenwald over the John Brennan affair. But this extremely obnoxious comment from a nameless Obama transition

Bill Gertz has kind of a breathless piece in today’s Washington Times about how Defense Secretary Bob Gates is asking many of the Pentagon’s political

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>It was the crescendo of an otherwise flat State of the Union address.

The U.S. Marshals have ended a program credited with rounding up 34,000 fugitives in the past five years because the program is not affordable. The Associated Press reports that Project Safe Surrender was started in Ohio in 2005 after a law enforcement officer was shot in the head during a traffic stop

<p>There was lots of enthusiasm at this morning&rsquo;s Blogs For Life meeting&mdash;conveniently scheduled right before the 35th annual March for

<p>Fellow <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.com/">TPMmuckraker</a> alumnus Justin Rood has an <a title="amazing story"

Jonathan Stray, an energetic blogger, has constructed a social-network chart detailing the connections between the so-called Counterinsurgents. It has some

All of Michele Bachmann’s paid New Hampshire staffers quit her campaign Friday, Politico reports . Bachmann did not have a large campaign staff in the Granite State and had focused much of her efforts in Iowa, but the news comes as a blow to a campaign that has floundered since briefly tasting success in the Iowa Straw Poll. Her staff told reporters on Friday that they had intended to quit sooner, but waited so as to damage her image

PART TWO of ‘TOXIC TITLES’ As the subprime crisis spreads, solutions seem to be in short supply. Given the enormity of the problem – the

The man carrying an AR-15 at yesterday’s presidential speech in Arizona participated in a video project by RP4409, a channel of Ron Paul fans from the far

The semi-grassroots, semi-astroturf tea parties against the stimulus get a thumbs-up from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). In gatherings large