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While we’re on the topic of that $80 billion deal struck between Democratic leaders and the nation’s drug makers, it’s worth clarifying how it came to be. Many

Jimm Phillips reports that the DNC has chosen the four finalist cities for the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and notes that three of the four cities

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Sept. 28, 2009. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Dec. 2, 2009. One day after Senate Majority

Eric Kleefeld has the goods on Michael Steele’s really absurd fib that he wrote this book before he took over the RNC on January 29, 2009. On Tuesday, I noted

If you guessed that this took place in Los Angeles, you’re right: more precisely, in Van Nuys, a district north of Hollywood.   And if you

That’s the warning coming today from the folks at the Center for Public Integrity, who caution that the recent High Court decision empowering corporations to

If there was one over-arching theme of the final night of the Republican National Convention, it was that liberals cannot be trusted to run things. From former

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is hitting Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown over an ad launched yesterday by a 527 called Americans

Though Clinton declined to give her specific thoughts on several controversial issues the picture that emerged from her eight-hour hearing was that of an energetic and progressive secretary of state prepared to reassert her department’s role in U.S. foreign policy.

With the death of Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) Monday -- just three days after he’d become the longest-serving congressman in Pennsylvania’s history -- Capitol

Efforts by some of Washington’s biggest campaign spenders, like the NRA, may have scared enough Democrats to make the legislation impossible to pass in its current form.

This is a little bit inside baseball, but it lends a glimpse at the relationship between politics and policy in Washington. Democrats, as they push to renew

In an address to the Heritage Foundation filled with unsubstantiated assertions about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies, Sen. Mitch McConnell

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the government had failed to justify the detention for the last seven years of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti engineer who worked

The media might be turning their attention to the looming crisis in commercial real estate, but some on Capitol Hill still doubt that the White House is doing

The National Republican Congressional Committee has begun running ads against U.S.

A national progressive organization is once again launching a television ad in Iowa, this time urging President Barack Obama to “fight, don’t cave” on ending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

Following up on Matt’s nice post about the states tapping Obama for help with enormous budget shortfalls... Few are saying it out loud, but the issue has a

The last time we saw Larry Sinclair, an ex-con who won a strange sort of fame in 2008 for his wild and unsubstantiated allegations against Barack Obama, he was

Hey, this is going to come as a big shock, but it turns out that some Guantanamo Bay prisoners on trial for plotting Sept. 11 are actually claiming they’ve

The Hill reports that the American Association for Nude Recreation is coming to town next week to lobby Congress on nudism-related issues. The AANR will be