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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D) is a pretty even-keeled, middle-of-the-road kind of guy. It was the Montana moderate who spent months tweaking

The $600 million border security bill first passed by the Senate last Thursday was passed again by voice vote in a brief session today. Only two senators, Ben

Josh Kraushaar has the news: James Tedisco, the minority leader in the New York Assembly, will be the GOP candidate for Senator-designate Kristen Gillibrand’s

After a good deal of public airing, the Senate last week shot down a proposal empowering a bipartisan budget panel to recommend deficit-slashing strategies that

Earlier today, Iran sentenced Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American academic, to 12 years in prison for the crime of assisting the dissidents in anti-regime

A timely reminder from FDL’s Marcy Wheeler that Rahm Emanuel lent his name to the following statement in 2007: Since the time that captured “enemy

Yesterday, the House passed legislation allowing federal employees four weeks of paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child -- a luxury they don’t

Mike Mandel posts a useful chart showing where college-educated young folks are getting jobs: The big picture is that government and professional

State Rep. Dave Agema (R-Grandville) was announced as a speaker at a Lansing rally Wednesday organized by Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who made headlines when he threatened to burn a Koran on his church property earlier this year, but his office denies the accuracy of that announcement. His spokesperson tells MLive.com that the controversial GOP lawmaker will not be speaking at or appearing at the event: “He will not be at the event,” Chris Jones, an aide in Agema’s office, told MLive.com

Let’s say there’s this really expensive fighter aircraft that you don’t use in the two wars you’re fighting. You’ve got 183 of them coming, but that’s just not

Now, we’ve said some dumb stuff in our time. Many of of the comments occurred in the 24-hour Burger King while an undergrad in Evanston, Ill. after a

Wednesday morning’s press conference with Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was greeted unenthusiastically, as many in the press said the event contained

Blackwater/Xe: an unkillable contracting force, a permanent fixture on the landscape. It can barely lose a contract after killing Iraqi civilians. And now

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President Obama has a 54 percent approval rating, according to a Washington Post/ABC poll. Gallup and CNN polls also show him with a 53 percent approval rating,

According to Bloomberg, Gov. Rick Scott, a strong opponent of federal health care reform, is considering working with the federal government to obtain grants

BP is facing some criticism for apparently altering a photograph of its Houston crisis room used on its website to promote the company’s oil spill recovery

Behind the scenic roads and vibrant economies of the ocean-side southern California areas of Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, lies a patchwork expanse

Tales of clunker horror stories have consumer advocates worried the fallout will continue for months.