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In the House, the appropriations committee is marking up spending bills, which means that rhetoric about earmarks is about to ramp up. Yesterday, the House

The only way to guarantee help for those facing disclosure is to supplement the Wall Street bailout.

These musings from Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) don’t seem to add much to the status of the Minnesota Senate race. I’m prepared to sign as soon as they give

In a tweet sent out this morning, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, says that the EPA must stop using “activist/ junk science or lose their funding.” According to his Twitter account, Ross will be meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, one-on-one. Jackson has been criticized for her role as the head of the agency now often deemed a “job killer” and has been especially scrutinized for her role in a set of numeric nutrient criteria that are mandated for the state of Florida.

This is Michael D. Furlong, a strategic planner for the Joint Information Operations Warfare Command based in Texas. According to a baroque story in today’s

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial jobless claims climbed to the highest level in five months, up 2,000 to 484,000, with last

Karl Rove, who is launching his new book today, by way of donations has already taken sides in several 2010 Senate races. Rove’s 2009 contributions

While the new-look Texas Legislature has grabbed the spotlight with an unprecedented attack on state spending, taking place behind the scenes and on smaller

Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s response to the news that a man he granted clemency in 2000 is a suspect in yesterday’s brutal massacre of four police

Via TPMDC, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is up with a new advertisement showing his Republican challenger Sharron Angle bashing the unemployed,

Today Attorney General Michael Mukasey preempted a vote by the House Oversight Committee to hold him in criminal contempt. President George W. Bush asserted

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that weekly initial jobless claims rose 12,000, to 472,000. Last week’s claims were revised upward, from 456,000

Tom Udall, the Democratic congressman from New Mexico, now running for Senate, gives an exclusive interview with our sister site, NMI, in which he talks about

Five top U.S. corporations racked up millions in profits last year and paid no federal taxes.

...are candidates for the State Board of Education asked whether they believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together. They both answered no, but the

U.S. consumers have cut back spending -- which should be good news because economists and financial counselors have long urged them to pay down their debt, especially on credit cards. But when everyone does it, you get a nasty recession. Congress may have to come to the rescue with a second stimulus package.

It’s official. Army Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the director of the Joint Staff and a former corps commander in Iraq under Gens. David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno,

The Southern and Middle Federal Judicial Districts of Florida were among the top 10 districts in the nation in the number of criminal immigration prosecutions in the first six months of fiscal year 2011. # New data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University shows that criminal prosecution for illegal reentry was the most commonly recorded lead charge brought by federal prosecutors — accounting for nearly half of all criminal immigration prosecutions filed

Retired generals and admirals said that they were encouraged by a meeting yesterday afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder.

Michigan’s Republican-controlled redistricting map has prompted plans by Detroit Reps.