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In the wake of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s party-line passage of sweeping health reform legislation this morning, all eyes are

President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for top positions in his new administration, such as his chief of staff, are drawing all the attention lately. But in the

Reporters and commentators having been making much of the fact that in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano -- which upheld New Haven’s right to discard the results

The former Speaker of the House bucks the tide somewhat and endorses the GOP candidate in New York’s special election. The statement comes with typical

Last December, after President Obama’s self-imposed deadline for direct, preconditionless negotiations with Iran expired without Iranian receptivity,

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with rural producers and community leaders at Glenwood High School Thursday to hear their concerns and provide USDA assistance program information. Vilsack assured those gathered that the U.S.

Meeting with a small group of reporters in her Denver office, Congresswoman Diana DeGette said the right wing of the Republican Party is not doing what voters sent them to Washington for. “Their agenda has nothing to do with jobs,” she said, noting that Republicans seem hell-bent on passing a series of laws to attack women’s reproductive health, public broadcasting and climate change science among other things. “It’s frustrating.

With the Congressional battle over revising the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ending in a victory for President George W. Bush last week, a

The Institute of Medicine’s recent recommendation to the U.S. Department of Health to include birth control services in a list of preventive services for

Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle has been accused of meeting an 18-year-old man on the website Craigslist. The Indianapolis Star Tribune reports that

Earlier this month, a CNN poll found that more Americans oppose the Afghanistan war than support it for (what I think was) the first time since the 2001

When Senate Republicans last week blocked Democrats’ efforts to bail out General Motors and Chrysler, which say they’re near bankruptcy, the White House was

A bewildered Marc Lynch tries to make sense of Vice President Joe Biden’s comment yesterday that Israel can determine for itself -- it’s a sovereign nation --

Michael Bromwich, head of the Department of the Interior’s newly formed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM), is planning a

Five GOP candidates for president offered very different assessments of the federal governments’ wind energy tax credit and renewable fuel standard during a forum Tuesday morning in Pella. Those two government initiatives have paid big dividends for the Hawkeye State, spurring major growth in the wind and renewable fuels industries

Federal agencies have stepped up efforts to crack down on medical marijuana, and while high-profile ATF raids may be more immediately shocking, there is a less

I had been trying all day to get a statement from Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Iran, and he just released one, going further than any other Republican member of

More from the White House’s letter objecting to certain provisions in the fiscal 2010 defense authorization. I thought this deserved to be quoted in