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It’s a tricky thing, getting 60 votes for a renewable energy standard in the Senate. As of yesterday, the RES had 25 co-sponsors, including four Republicans.

This week the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is discussing its safety and protection standards for people who participate in

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum , a Pennsylvania Republican, will be the featured speaker when the Republican Party of Iowa brings its “Chairman’s Series” to Cedar Rapids later this month

Republicans hoping that voter unrest is targeted largely at the majority Democrats won’t like what they see in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. That survey

As the city of Lansing is preparing for a rally by controversial Quran-burning Florida pastor Terry Jones, a spokesperson for Speaker of the House Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) is crying foul over statements made by Mayor Virg Bernero.

Ben Rhodes argues that the U.S. must channel our strength and influence to reshaping an international order.

Nevada gubernatorial candidate Rory Reid (D) isn’t using the last name he shares with father Harry Reid in a new ad. Rod Blagojevich called Obama’s purported

Just two days after receiving a letter from the White House urging that a public plan be part of the Democrats’ health reform strategy, Senate Finance Committee

New York Republicans are salivating over the House seat that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is leaving behind to take an appointment as Secretary of State

As Kate pointed out a few weeks back, the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month stalled 79 applications for new surface mines in the Appalachian

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is less than satisfied with the report of a commission empaneled by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to investigate the deadly Fort

The Rasmussen Reports survey on the Massachusetts special Senate election wasn’t far off from what my Democratic source guessed it would be: Democratic

On Wednesday, American Solutions for Winning the Future, a conservative 527 group founded by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), notified a pornography

A coalition of reproductive-rights advocates in Virginia will be joined by state leaders in protesting Wednesday new proposed abortion clinic regulations, which

Here’s another dimension to the Pakistani government’s public-denouncement-but-private-cooperation with U.S. military attacks on extremists in the tribal areas.

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,

At least, that’s the message from Rick Barber, a Tea Party-backed candidate for the Republican nomination in Alabama’s Democrat-controlled 2nd District. Here’s

The conference committee to merge the Senate and House financial regulatory reform bills begins on Thursday, but the negotiating has long been underway behind

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.

I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the