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Rep. Tim Walz offered an amendment on Friday that would prevent members of Congress from getting paid in the event of a government shutdown. The measure, which was to be attached to the Government Shutdown Prevention Act, failed along party lines.

Leading up to the 2012 election, women are watching -- more specifically, Planned Parenthood is watching. On Election Day 2011, when Mississippians voted down

In October, it was Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) who rescued the Children’s Health Insurance Program from oblivion in the Senate Finance Committee. This week,

In a little-noticed column, Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the Senate minority whip, comes out for scrapping the stimulus money that has not yet been spent. All $677

The allegations against Paulson & Co. and the Center for Responsible Lending stem not from a congressional investigation or independent study, but from Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group famed for supporting the Tea Parties.

Today, the S&P/Case Shiller Housing Index shows some worrying, if unsurprising, statistics about the housing market. The good news is that the

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Obama trails Republicans in 2012 presidential match-ups. Colorado Republicans prepare for possibility of Scott McInnis dropping out of the race. The

Today, the Labor Department reported (PDF) that the number of available jobs remained mostly unchanged between July and August -- holding at about 3.2 million.

As reported here on Thursday, the House Armed Services Committee set the Obama administration’s plans for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay back

Sen. Barack Obama needs young voters to keep turning out at unusually high rates in order to win in November. While his campaign adeptly mobilized them in

A decade of cuts in federal combined with states mimicking Bush administration tax cuts have led states to fill revenue shortfalls with regressive tax policies.

A plan designed to help 400,000 homeowners modify their mortgage terms has only helped 25 borrowers.

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Despite Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) imprudent confirmation last week that the unmanned aerial vehicles that the United States uses to fire missiles at

Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of

That Top Kill maneuver that appeared so successful at blocking the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico earlier today? Not so successful anymore: BP had to

A private security company hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Kabul lost its contract with the State Department in 2007 over the failure of its guards to speak English, according to two senior diplomats who worked in the embassy at that time.

Responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Homeland Security today acknowledged 11 deaths of immigrants in U.S.