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The Hill reports that Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has declined to sign a letter circulated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader, asking

About 3,800 elderly and disabled refugees, set to lose their federal aid tomorrow, could earn reprieve today if Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is successful

Good deal, says Wall Street. Here’s The Associated Press, reporting yesterday on insurance company stock prices after the Senate bill cleared its first

In a Politico posting that blended former Minnesota Gov.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) is digging in on the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s claims that the administration is hiding the true cost of a climate bill,

After seven long days of partisan haggling, the Senate Finance Committee early Friday morning wrapped up its debate on the panel’s sweeping health reform

After former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s speech to the Values Voter Summit, he held a short press conference where I asked him to expand on something from his

Between late afternoon Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, the Minnesota Legislature passed budget bills that will fund more than $35 billion in state government and end the 19-day shutdown.

The list of Arizona S.B. 1070-style immigration-enforcement laws challenged in court keeps growing. Now it’s Georgia’s turn

Republican Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) and Rep.

When reporters walked up to the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel to see Bill O’Reilly’s Friday night speech -- he was receiving the Media Courage Award --

Though the contentious 2011 budget process is over and Planned Parenthood will continue receiving federal support, the fight against the organization continues,

You may have thought that you had heard the last of him after his appearance on The View, but it looks like Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is back in the news.

Manu Raju talks to Senate Democrats about the Glenn Beck-driven, almost entirely hysterical campaign against czars. The fuel: a letter written by Sen. Russ

Well, of course it’s Tax Day, and while we’ve been a bit preoccupied with all the wacky Tea Party hijinks, it also means that we get to take a look at the

The Federal Open Market Committee, the guiding policy committee of the Federal Reserve, is gaining increasing attention from lawmakers and politicians on both

The Lowe’s logo (Pic via melissabargains.com ) Petitions containing over 200,000 signatures were delivered to Lowe’s corporate headquarters today, protesting the company’s recent decision to pull its ads from the TLC reality series All-American Muslim . More than 42,000 signatures came from supporters of People for the American Way, which recently called on Lowe’s CEO Robert Niblock to “reject the bigotry of right-wing extremists and reinstate its ads on the show.” Earlier this month, Lowe’s (and several other companies) pulled ads from the program in response to pressure from the Florida Family Association, a group that objected to the show’s portrayal of American Muslims as “ordinary folks just like you and me.” Michael Keegan, president of People For the American Way, issued the following statement earlier today: Lowe’s set a dangerous precedent by caving in to a fringe group that preaches intolerance toward fellow Americans. The TLC program portrays Muslim Americans as the everyday people they are – people who go to work, go to school and pay taxes.

When the Supreme Court ruled last week in a controversial 5-4 decision that prisoners have no constitutional right to obtain available DNA evidence that could

We still don’t know what it says. Not even Defense Secretary Bob Gates does, apparently, though it went to the Pentagon and NATO. The initial reports are that

It comes in this Washington Post story about the aforementioned CIA significant actions: Why would you cancel it? asked Sen. Christopher S. Bond (Mo.),