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Some shocking numbers from a new CBS News/New York Times poll, revealing that just 8 percent of Americans think the sitting members of Congress deserve

Amb. Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, just released this transcript of her submission for U.N. Security Council consideration of a package of

This is a state that Democrats said was going blue, or least purple, said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, on Virginia. How do they explain it if they lose?

The health reform blueprint unveiled by President Obama earlier this week is being described everywhere as an amalgamation of the Senate and House bills. When

A controversial Senate bill currently under review in Tallahassee will be revised, according to a spokesman for the Florida Farm Bureau. # State Sen.

Very little is clear in the Iranian election, aside from the fact that the opposition does not credit for a moment the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad winning

I had no luck getting members of Congress to talk yesterday about the relationship between Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president, and the CIA. But

In early April, the tenuous security gains of 2007’s surge by U.S. troops in Iraq were jeopardized by an Iraqi government assault against hard-line Shiite

The GOP congressman and candidate for governor of Michigan is quick with his (faint) praise on Twitter:

As I will note in a forthcoming piece, Monday is the deadline set by a federal judge for the Obama administration to release a much-anticipated CIA inspector

December’s EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger both public health and public welfare has been, for months, a thorn in the side of lawmakers from

I attended the first half of last night’s National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington, bolting (with about half the press corps) after

Below is the leaked text of the draft climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will unveil tomorrow (via Post

DFLer Al Franken, concerned that no one will be sitting in Minnesota’s Senate seat as long as Republican Norm Coleman’s fingernails are hanging off of it, asks

Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room reports that about half of the Republican caucus in Congress, taking into account the results of the midterm elections, now

The House passed a new border security bill -- identical to the bill the Senate passed last week other than the name -- by voice vote this morning during its

Lost in the din over Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties today was Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Kathleen Sebelius’ confirmation

President Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks in Michigan this afternoon touting the potential for battery technologies to jump-start the electric vehicle

When Gov.

Rather than taking a fourth cloture vote, the Senate just agreed to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill by

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A Department of Energy advisory panel that was criticized by environmentalists for having too many members connected to the oil and gas industry has issued a second report calling for stronger regulation of hydrofracking by state and federal agencies.