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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to approve the nomination of Joseph Pizarchik to head the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

We’ve heard Rep. Michele Bachmann’s name bandied about as a runningmate for Sarah Palin in 2012 , we’ve seen the Draft Bachmann website , and we’ve followed the Sixth Congressional District Republican as she’s criss-crossed the country hinting at a possible bid for the GOP endorsement for president

A federal district court judge Tuesday afternoon ordered the state of Michigan to stop actions to cut an estimated 30,000 people off the welfare rolls in the state. U.S

Not totally clear yet, but it seems that way. From NPR just now: While Iran did not reject the plan outright, state TV said that Tehran was waiting for a

<p>In an interview with <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/story/228/story_22873_1.html#">beliefnet</a> today, Mike Huckabee was

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

Video has surfaced from Fox News’s coverage of last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference demonstrating that Fox misused footage following the

I dunno, Weigel. You say it’s hard to argue with the contention that Facing a leftist American administration is nothing in comparison, for instance, to

After Arizona passed its crackdown law on illegal immigration, SB 1070, politicians across the country said they planned to introduce similar legislation in

Last night, after debating Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) Audit the Fed amendment, the Senate did not end up voting on it. Why? Two reasons. First of all, Sanders

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

This is the Obama transition’s official statement on Gaza as of right now, courtesy of chief transition national-security spokeswoman Brooke

Former President Bill Clinton (Pic by sskennel, via Flickr) Detention Watch Network today launched its “Dignity, Not Detention” campaign, calling on Congress to repeal the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act , which mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants. The law was signed by President Clinton 15 years ago this week. Andrea Black, executive director of Detention Watch Network , said during a conference call today that mandatory detention has torn apart families and violated due process

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post that he is leaning toward voting for two controversial amendments: one

In a presentation (PDF) today, Congressional Budget Office director Douglas W. Elmendorf told the National Association for Business Economics that the gap

Choose Life license plates are back. Pre-abortion sonograms are an official state emergency. The 2011 Texas legislative session presents great opportunities

A reliable source tells me that the plot for this show originally had Eli Stone representing the mom because her insurer wouldn’t pay for her autistic

The company with the contract to operate Pontiac’s water system has a record of service problems in other cities and is facing felony charges, but it’s unclear whether these issues were taken into account before closing the deal because the contract was issued by an Emergency Manager who is not accountable to local residents. In May, Emergency Manager Michael Stampfler signed an $8 million a year, five-year contract with United Water, a New Jersey-based subsidiary of the French water giant Suez Environement, for maintenance and management of the city’s water and sewer utilities