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Jackie Kucinich reports that House Democrats are scuttling Republican plans to send their infamous health care chart, a cartoonish mess put together by Rep.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday night that prohibits state health exchanges created by President Obama’s

Gov. Rick Scott’s budget signing was a heavily stage-managed affair. # It was held in The Villages, a predominantly Republican retirement community roughly three and a half hours’ drive from the state capital. The crowd was purged of dissenters before the governor arrived, and they were left standing outside the outdoor town square with signs that read “Pink Slip Rick.” # Charter school students were bussed in from Osceola County to provide an ideal photo op

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.)’s amendment to strip funding for the F-22 fighter jet passed five minutes ago on the Senate floor. Levin’s

Andrew Sullivan flags an Iraqi McClatchy reporter’s ambivalent reaction to Muntader al-Zaidi’s tossed shoes. He disapproves of al-Zaidi’s emotional reaction.

On Tuesday, Bruce Watzman, spokesman for the National Mining Association, appeared on Capitol Hill to implore lawmakers not to overreact (i.e., legislate)

Hussein Ibish told me earlier today that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas needs to yield a means of easing the siege on Gaza that helps the ordinary people

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In a rare bipartisan effort, members of the U.S. Senate voted Thursday, before returning to their districts to attend Veterans Day ceremonies, to approve a portion of Obama’s American Jobs Act that provides tax breaks to companies that hire veterans. Tom Harkin “It is deeply disturbing that one in five veterans under the age of 25 is unemployed

Not a whole lot of news came out of Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Amb. Karl Eikenberry’s White House news conference this afternoon. McChrystal patiently

Iowa U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) can count himself among the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, according to a USA Today analysis of financial disclosures of members of Congress

A major theme at this past weekend’s faith-based conference The Awakening at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., was winning over young voters. During the

Spencer blogged about Florida congressional candidate Allen West’s eye-popping statement on the Ft. Hood tragedy; I spoke to West for a story about black

The Salerno army base offers a window into the hard counterinsurgency battle at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

New unemployment claims took their first significant drop in nearly four months last week, dipping below 400,000 for the first time since April with 398,000 new claims. The four week average stands at 413,750.

While opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act will be well-funded, a strategy division, and the size of the Democrats’ majorities in Congress, are making life difficult for the anti-labor side of the debate.

From Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker comes this simple but not-much-discussed observation: Empathy is not, as some seem to think, a scourge peculiar

Today Alabamans go to the polls, again, to determine the Republican candidate for governor after a June 1 primary forced a runoff between Bradley Byrne, a

GOP candidate U.S.

Those who view the U.S. military command in Iraq as being an outpost of opposition to President Obama’s withdrawal plans would have an interesting time with

Two weeks ago, I talked to independent Republican groups and people working on the special congressional election in New York’s 20th Congressional District and