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The conservative opposition to President Obama’s agenda faces a new challenge today when a Senate subcommittee chaired Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) holds a

North Carolina’s new anti-abortion law, the “Women’s Right to Know Act,” goes into effect today minus a controversial provision that requires women to

Among the many Republican-backed provisions to cut federal spending is the proposal to transform Medicaid into block grants. Republicans have posited the

If you look at The New York Times op-ed page today, you have a Les Gelb piece on how to withdraw from Afghanistan and a joint Max Boot/Kagan family piece on how

After years of telling the country that setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq would lead to total disaster -- "I believe setting a deadline for

One of the ongoing criticisms of the Federal Reserve is that, despite its expertise and mandate, it presided over the failing institutions and didn’t understand

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open the door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities.

President-elect Obama has said that energy will be a top priority for his administration in its first 100 days -- hinting that it will come second only to the

Here’s Sen. Carl Levin’s (D-Mich.) statement on today’s passage of his amendment to strip F-22 funding from the defense authorization: Today’s vote is a

Don’t know who Ray Mabus is? I don’t blame you. He’s a former Mississippi governor whom President Obama nominated last week to become secretary of the Navy. If

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National

Ohio’s Republican legislative leaders and governor want a compromise with the state’s public sector unions in an effort to prevent the repeal via ballot

Let’s say Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and other lawmakers incensed over AIG’s bonuses win their battle. The AIG

I talked briefly with Rick Scott, the chairman (and major funder) of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, after he gave a short talk at the Heritage Foundation

President George W. Bush isn’t likely to pre-emptively pardon himself and his senior cabinet and other officials who authorized the use of torture in

The fight that neighborhoods in Cleveland are launching against banks that dump vacant and vandalized foreclosed homes back onto the real estate market received

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing to discuss newly proposed climate change legislation from Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and

My friend Richard Smith at VetVoice has a great catch from George W. Bush’s exit interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz after getting shoes thrown at him in

State Senator Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, is undaunted. As schools were being systematically defunded by the Legislature during this last session, he floated the idea of a tax increase to fund schools. Then he announced plans to take it before the voters with an initiative this November.

The American Petroleum Institute, the powerful oil and gas industry trade association, is coming out against an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

In June, the White House issued a report making the case that health reform -- well beyond a moral and social imperative -- is also vital to the economic health