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It faded from news coverage over the past few weeks, but when President Obama returns from Prague, he’ll have to make a decision 0n pressing forward to try

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) told reporters today he is now more comfortable with Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination after meeting with her

So is voter fraud really a problem or not? On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, not answering the question, exactly, but ruling unanimously that the

Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they lacked a deep bench of

The Senate just voted on two amendments tackling the loss-taking government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which stabilize the mortgage

There are three amendments to watch today before Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) calls another vote to end debate of Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory

The process of opting out of the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities has been shrouded in secrecy and contradictory statements -- most recently

The Senate Finance Committee just voted down the second and last public option amendment expected to be offered during the panel’s markup of health reform

The war cabinet convenes this afternoon for the first of a series of debates over Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy. Previews that don’t preview much can be

The process is young, but the loudest criticisms of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court have so far come from Republicans leaders wary that she’s

With the spike in gas prices to more than $4 a gallon, Bloomberg pointed out in a recent story that high commuting costs are contributing to falling home values

ProPublica just posted a good story on Gulf oil spill victims who are still waiting to receive compensation for their losses, even after being told by Gulf

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural

The South Carolina Republican announced today that he’s hoping to amend the finance reform bill working its way (slowly) across the Senate floor with a

Turns out, it’s a number of the country’s largest banks. In a report out today, several environmental groups rank nine of the biggest players on Wall Street

The intricate legal battle over missing White House emails could be going somewhere. Theresa Payton, the White House’s chief information officer,has admitted

My fascination with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is well-documented and not likely to stop anytime soon. As President Obama and Russian

Laura Rozen reports that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn’t think the new Iran-Turkey uranium enrichment deal will derail the U.S.’s efforts at

To build out a theme from the previous post, it’s noteworthy how the National Security Strategy draws on conceptions of military power developed over the last

This afternoon, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on BP, the British oil company responsible for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told Politico today that he remains undecided on who he will support in the race for the state’s open Senate seat, even as a new

During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order

Is the sky falling? Are pigs flying? Apparently Wall Street executives have become sensitive to the fact that while people are losing their jobs and their