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Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) are two of the latest Senate Democrats to use their opening statements in Elena Kagan’s confirmation

The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s new strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: A White House official said energy would remain a top

This morning, the National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobbying group, announced that its index of optimism among small business

The Charleston County (S.C.) Republican Party’s move to censure Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) didn’t strike me as too surprising--last year, Graham fended off a

Just so no one misconstrues a previous post as me having issues with Dave Dilegge or Small Wars Journal, let me hat-tip SWJ for this just-released Army field

Politico has a story today on how some of the likely new GOP House members plan to address immigration. Many of them pushed for tough immigration enforcement

It is with a mix of emotions that I announce the departure of The Washington Independent’s national security reporter -- and in many ways the cornerstone of the

The good folks at BloggingHeads asked me to film an episode from Afghanistan. So, from my hotel room in Kabul, my friend Rob Farley from Lawyers Guns and Money

If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also have

Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) outlined his priorities for next Congress today if he is chosen by his fellow Republicans to assume the chairmanship of the House

With write-in ballots -- the vast majority of which are presumed to be for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) -- garnering nearly 41 percent of the vote in Alaska’s

The Minnesota governor’s race appears headed for a recount. Republicans, who won the legislature on Tuesday, may seek to draw it out so they can work with Gov. Tim Pawlenty to pass conservative legislation. In the background looms the specter of the 2008 Senate recount.

Just now, following a defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) officially conceded the 2008 Senate race and

Fresh from his victory in Nevada and operating on little sleep, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear on a conference call this afternoon that

It was widely reported that the corporate-funded, small-government, anti-health care reform group Americans for Prosperity was helping to organize Rep. Michele

At the Brookings Institution yesterday, government officials and advocates discussed the state of the United States’ relationship with Latin America, touching

In December, when the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest doctors lobby, endorsed the Senate’s plan for reforming health care, the backing came

On a night of celebration for Republicans, there was also a lingering question: Did Tea Party challenges prevent the GOP from taking the Senate?

In the wake of a stern press conference delivered Wednesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the lobbying firm Seward Square Group has announced that it

Just got off a conference call with Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU’s Washington office. Fredrickson and a number of civil-libertarian and

British Prime Minister David Cameron today dismissed allegations by four Senate Democrats that BP had worked with the Scottish government to secure the speedy

Nouri al-Maliki sent hints that he actually wants a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. I was... skeptical. Now the permanent national-security adviser,