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It’s no Washington secret that lawmakers voting against the the nation’s powerful gun lobby will likely suffer the National Rifle Association’s wrath come

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued today a second deepwater drilling moratorium, based on new evidence about drilling safety following a recent court

A permanent resident alien from the Dominican Republic will not face deportation after being convicted in 2007 of passing out condoms in Minnesota brothels. Manuel de Jesus Familia Rosario has been a permanent resident in the U.S. since 1999, and entered a guilty plea in federal court in 2007 for aiding and abetting a conspiracy involving “importation into the United States of any alien for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose,” reports Court House News.

The poem issued forth from the speakers at the podium, reverberating off the western face of the Ohio Capitol. We are firefighters and policemen. We are the

Via Taegan Goddard, Radio Iowa reports that Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) said during a town hall meeting Thursday that President Obama told him he would be

Refusal of an Iowa-based social conservative pledge was swift work for former New Mexico Gov.

Presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., made the typical campaign stop today for any aspiring office-holder looking to court Cubans in Miami: Versailles Restaurant.

A report written by the oil industry laying out recommendations for future oil spill responses says that the use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: Once BP’s runaway Macondo well is killed, it will no longer be considered part of oil spill reponse and the Department

Last night, the U.S. Senate attempted to move on the House’s version of a war-funding bill, providing much-needed funds to the Pentagon for Afghanistan and Iraq

In a recession, can President Obama make the case for immigration?

Under the auspices of the Center for Victims of Torture, two former officials have compiled a list of questions to set expectations for the Obama

Peter Orszag’s New York Times opinion piece has set off a flurry of discussion about whether to extend tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and how the

Earlier today, we previewed an effort by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to require insurance companies to dedicate a minimum share of premium revenues to health

Some Mexican politicians are not happy with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments yesterday comparing Mexico’s drug cartel problem to an insurgency and

American Future Fund — a nonprofit with numerous ties to Gov.-elect Terry Branstad and based out of a P.O. Box in Des Moines — spent $9,599,806 in 2010, ranking 7th nationally in spending by outside political organizations , according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. Because the group is registered as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, it is not regulated by the Federal Elections Commission or the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board

Other judges will not be bound by the decision, but there are reasons for advocates to be hopeful.

One of the early casualties of massive budget cuts is state funding of nonprofit crisis pregnancy resource centers, according to the first draft of the Texas

As Congress jousts over the effectiveness of the stimulus package to stir economic activity, it’s worth noting that homeowners -- whose troubles are at the root

Until now, the Senate’s health reform debate has been largely partisan, with Republicans blasting the various reform bills as a step toward socialized medicine,

When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office declined to rule out a 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for president , religious right leaders responded with glee at what they say could be the next Ronald Reagan — except “swap boots for pumps.” Bachmann has long had a strong relationship with the religious right, and one of the first Iowa Republican caucus polls to include Bachmann show her taking away from two traditional religious right favorites: Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee.