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Politico reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) chief of staff Michelle Marston is stepping down. Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle

Tomorrow, the House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the oil pipeline break that spilled about 1 million gallons of oil into a tributary of the

Just an addendum to Dave’s insightful post: when you see conservatives lauding President Obama’s Nobel speech or his Afghanistan policy by, say, comparing

Following up on Aaron Wiener’s post about GOP Sen. Gordon Smith’s defeat in Oregon by his Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley: As I wrote in August, Smith, a

As the banks go national and Wall Street goes loco, states are increasingly feeling the pain of the economic turmoil. Twenty-one states and the District of

President Obama again pledged his support for the DREAM Act during a meeting today with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Reps. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Luis

The project that found political fame with a dubbed version of a speech by Texas Gov.

Clearly enjoying the attention he’s getting for his aggressive attacks on the Obama administration’s handling of terror threats, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.)

Marc Theissen, get set to attack your next target -- Michael Sulick, head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service. Via Jeff Stein, Sulick, a longtime CIA

The Canadian government, which has been pushing hard for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring more tar sands crude oil to the United States, left out data on higher greenhouse gas emissions from that type of oil from a UN report. The Vancouver Sun reports : The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is reeling after a rough debate in Orlando, Fla., and is still taking heat for defending the law he signed 10 years ago, granting in-state

Jennifer Yachnin reports this detail in a story on the relative personal wealth of senators. Wealth in the chamber ranges from Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) —

Via Rick Klein, here’s a combative address by Federal Communications Commission diversity officer Mark Lloyd, a frequent target of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party

Watch the former Bush speechwriter and torture enthusiast on Morning Joe today. His first point is that President Obama is endangering the country because the

The Huntsville Times reports on a speech made on Saturday by Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard (R-Auburn), in which the co-sponsor of the state’s new

The Hill reports that Allen West, a former Army lieutenant colonel promoted by the National Republican Congressional Committee as one of its young guns, has

Republican senators are pushing controversial immigration and banking amendments to the unemployment insurance measure.

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So says Capt. Matt Pottinger, one of the co-authors of Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn’s scathing assessment of intelligence operations in Afghanistan: This is

State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, D-Tallahassee, has filed a bill that would end the death penalty in Florida

What I should have written yesterday about Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies is that she supports using an executive order on preventive