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Just posted to the Senate’s site: 20 Democrats -- mostly from rural, low-population states -- voted in favor of the gun amendment. Two Republicans, Sens. George

The district is the sort of largely white, largely pro-life, conservative area where reporters once found Reagan Democrats, and the sort that needs to flip if Republicans are to take back the House.

Last week I urged people to watch Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.) and Jack Murtha (D-Pa) for barometric

Via Dave Weigel, FreedomWorks (which he terms the most media-savvy of the Tea Party groups) is stepping up its own efforts to pressure Republican senators to

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) A women’s health advocacy group plans to reopen a legal fight to challenge the federal government’s decision to overrule a request from the FDA to expand access to the morning after pill, also called Plan B, to women under the age of 17. Since U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her decision , reproductive health advocates have expressed disappointment and claim that the decision was based on political calculations, and not on scientific research

According to a Pentagon fact sheet on the now-scrapped plans for a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, Defense Secretary Bob Gates and the Joint

The Washington Post’s headline -- McChrystal: More Forces Or ’Mission Failure’ -- does what the persons who leaked Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Afghanistan

Karl Rove (Pic by DavidAll06, via Flickr) Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove and talk show host Neal Boortz will speak in Jacksonville on Fri., Nov. 18, as part of “Stand Up for America: Debt, Taxes, and You Decide 2012.” According to a press release, the event will be “a lively and entertaining discussion of the important issues in the news, including the 2012 election, spending, debt, and taxes.” WOKV radio’s Andy Dean and Jamie Dupree will also be participating in the event.

After meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the White House today, President Obama issued a directive giving Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

The $700 billion bank bailout was supposed to stabilize banks and get them lending again. However, some of the recipients seem more interested in rallying big

The oil and gas industry’s water needs may be just a sliver of all the water use across Texas — less than one percent, according to one recent study — but

From the anti-AIG bonus tax statement of Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who is no one’s idea of a disloyal Republican: The blame for these bonuses rests solely

In a Politico posting that blended former Minnesota Gov.

In the spirit of self-criticism, something that I see my New START coverage has taken for granted is the support of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the leading

As the Senate awaits the cap-and-trade bill expected to be released sometime before the end of September, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is looking for ways to get

Yesterday President Obama announced his intent to establish a system of preventive detention to stop would-be terrorists from carrying out an act of war --

As predicted this morning, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was ousted in a landslide 2006 win by Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), used his prebuttal to

As chairman of the House oversight committee, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) uncovered critical information about the worst reported abuses of power in the Bush administration.

In 2005, a group of toxicologists published a study suggesting that mothers whose urine contained high levels of an important component of plastics were