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As the debate over health care reform continues its heated march through August, conservatives are defending the increasingly common lawmaker-directed town hall

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) signed on overnight, meaning that the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, the Obama administration’s second

During her unsuccessful campaign to replace Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), four-term Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said repeatedly that she would resign from

The president on today’s Iran negotiations in Geneva: First, Iran must demonstrate its commitment to transparency. Earlier this month, we presented clear

I chided the ABC newsman for barely correcting Rudy Giuliani’s incorrect assertion that there were no terrorist attacks under George W. Bush’s presidency.

Half or more of the people listening to the Mitt Romney/Meg Whitman presentation at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing cleared out

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) -- the notorious budget hawk who almost became President Obama’s Commerce Secretary -- has accepted a spot on the powerful Banking

Today, Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, addressed the annual meeting of the Southern Legislative Conference of the Council of State

The prime minister of the Caribbean vacation nation Antigua & Barbuda (official name!) has renamed his country’s highest mountain Mount Obama. Seriously. W.

Ana Marie Cox, our newest correspondent, reports from the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain. Here she covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech today in Toledo, Ohio.

This was an extremely bad day for the Obama administration. Right after Obama’s Meet The Press declaration that he would not allow strategy to be driven by

Refugees International, a humanitarian non-governmental organization recently headed by former Pentagon official Kenneth Bacon, is out this morning with a new

Speaking at a major annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated he would be willing to support further

The Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development report that housing starts climbed more than expected in March. Builders applied for

Add birth control to the growing list of taboos in the Florida House of Representatives. House leaders threw out a proposal yesterday that would make April 12 “Birth Control Matters Day,” because House Rules Committee chair Gary Aubuchon, R-Cape Coral, thought the resolution was “controversial.” # This newest installment of women’s-topics-that-make-Florida-legislators-uncomfortable comes on the heels of a dust-up over the word “uterus” last week . # According to the Orlando Sentinel , Aubuchon rejected the proposal by Rep

<p>I agree with those who saw a bit of a valedictory air in Hillary Clinton’s final comments in Thursday night’s debate. But I’m

Sen. Barack Obama granted an exclusive interview to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night, huddling with the popular new prime time host in an appearance

Perhaps not as ironic as Politico’s Ben Smith makes it out to be, but Senate Democrats will vote Thursday on the DISCLOSE Act because a number of them will be

Even though there’s a new administration in Washington promising broad ethics reforms, it looks like the old way of doing things may still be alive and well in