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As the Senate prepares to tackle the thorny topic of global warming, supporters of a bipartisan proposal to cut U.S. carbon emissions face a difficult sell.

With a new Pakistani military response to Taliban advances underway, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy goes before the House Armed Services

The National Republican Congressional Committee is up with a new ad against Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), who won one of the closest races in the country last

Can Sen. Barack Obama serve as the FDR of his day?

That resolution Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) is expected to introduce Thursday calling for a naval communications channel with Iran? Republican Rep. Geoff Davis

Two House Democrats, including one from Colorado, are seeking to question a pair of investors about solar panel manufacturer Solyndra’s financial flameout in Northern California. U.S. Reps.

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After being rebuffed last month, chief executives of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler try again to persuade lawmakers that a government bailout is necessary.

I’ve written in the past about conservative author Jack Cashill’s quest to prove that Bill Ayers wrote President Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Cashill’s

Speaking of Pakistan, the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill giving the Pakistani civilian government $7.5 billion over five years has become a fiasco, with the Pakistani

Turns out, it depends on whom you ask. Following yesterday’s much-hyped White House meeting between President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, two

I try not to write about every development in the career of Orly Taitz, but I have to make an exception for her appeal to the United Nations for urgent action

The Omerta Strategy for the defense budget that I outlined in today’s piece comes to an end Monday. According to Julian Barnes of The Los Angeles Times, that’s

Add former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich to the list of 2012 competitors who will not participate in Nevada if that state’s caucuses interfere with New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.

Want to read an extremely thorough response to Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani’s remarks on the ceasefires in Pakistan’s Swat Valley? Over at the Weekly

Stephanie Tubbs Jones -- Democratic super-delegate, vocal Hillary Clinton supporter, and the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress -- remains

A new study points to income inequality (the gap between those making most of the income and those making the least) as one of the main culprits for a country’s lagging economy. The United States’ income inequality is currently very high — and yet, some states are faring worse than others. Florida ranks “as the fifth-worst state in the nation on a measure of income inequality,” the Gini Index, according to the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy . Mother Jones reports that “equality” in income remains one of the most important “economic drivers” in an economy: “Countries where income was more equally distributed tended to have longer growth spells,” says economist Andrew Berg, whose study appears in the current issue of Finance & Development , the quarterly magazine of the International Monetary Fund.

Just hours before Senate lawmakers met this afternoon for a hearing on mine safety -- a hearing inspired by the deadly blast at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch

Here’s an example of why LGBT activist groups who cheered the Obama administration’s acquiescence to a legislative push overturning the military’s ban on open

The Obama administration is this week proposing a series of expensive tax breaks for businesses as part of a larger effort to create new jobs: $100 billion to

Here’s the OLC memo from May 30, 2005, which states that enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA are consistent with United States

Contrary to the expectations of many of us who’ve been speculating about this for months, it’s looking like President George W. Bush may well leave office