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Several farm-state senators are looking to include a provision in a major appropriations bill that would significantly increase the amount of ethanol blended

The Austin American-Statesman’s Jason Embry reported today on the deep ties new University of Texas Regent Alex Cranberg has to the state of Colorado, where

Two bills sponsored by Iowa House Republicans could have significant public safety consequences, and perhaps the most unnerving of those potential outcomes would be the justifiable use of deadly force against abortion or family planning providers. When the two pieces of legislation are combined they create a situation where a fertilized egg would be considered a person, and allow for the public execution of those who would threaten such a person. If passed into law, the two bills — House File 7 and House File 153 — would offer an unprecedented defense opportunity to individuals who stand accused of killing such providers, according to a former prosecutor and law professor at the University of Kansas, and are something that might have very well led to a different outcome in the Kansas trail of the man who shot Dr.

The Associated Press reports that 27-year-old Justin Travis and 28-year-old Michael Carter were both killed after a roof collapsed Wednesday night at the

The Washington Post’s A-1 story on Republican opposition to the Democratic stimulus plan emphasizes what I learned this week in talking to Republicans about

In my quest to find former enemy combatants who were required to agree not to sue the United States for unlawful indefinite detention and mistreatment as a

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks he has what it takes to steal the youth vote away from President Barack Obama , but Democrats are hitting back

David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to

“Hi, I’m Robert Jensen, a provider of educational products to consumers at the University of Texas at Austin. I used to introduce myself as a UT professor,

I asked CIA spokesman George Little to respond to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charge that the CIA misled Congress about torture. Here’s his response: The

The last time I wrote about the case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad, the government had just conceded that its primary evidence -- his confessions --

Over at Big Hollywood, Andrew Breitbart’s banging new pan-ideological movies site, Roger L. Simon gives us an excerpt of his new book about how being a

Updated: 12:09 p.m. Seniors and people with disabilities who receive health care through Medicare* might have an additional service covered in the near future:

Most of the stories about the Republican filibuster yesterday of the defense authorization bill have focused on two amendments it squashed: a repeal of Don’t

I see where Republicans are with this, said one GOP aide in the House, but it drives me insane. What happens if you run, win, and don’t repeal?

Short answer: Hard to say. Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy -- he voted for cloture on the

At a time when many states are slicing services for people with disabilities across the nation, the federal government has come through with a welcome offering:

Rachel Hartman has a great roundup of what conservatives are saying about the upcoming Supreme Court battle. But it’s not just on the right that Justice John

Updated at 12:45 p.m. EST to add comments from the Louisiana Democratic Party The Times-Picayune has obtained an invitation for a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser to

Washington is quiet, but that does not mean it is dormant. Staffers on the Hill and in the Treasury Department are working on a plan to restore normalcy to the

Major news publications are paying attention to the fact that a Texas law against homosexual conduct is still in the Penal Code despite being ruled

Roll Call’s Shira Toeplitz reports that former Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind.), who went down in the 2006 midterms to Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), is the frontrunner

Just got a readout of what’s likely to be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) scaled-down energy bill. According to an environmentalist

First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass