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No shocker here. Despite some reservations from a small minority of Republicans, the Senate Finance Committee voted this morning to approve Tim Geithner to

On her excellent new Foreign Policy blog, Laura Rozen has a great scoop about a secret dinner last week between President-elect Obama at the Woodrow Wilson

Pulling the Medicare provision out of the stalled jobs bill and voting on it separately, the Senate unanimously agreed this afternoon to delay a 21 percent cut

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform recently announced that the group will be picketing “Catholic facilities and activities in the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas.” The anti-abortion group wants to force Bishop Patrick Zurek to allow Father Frank Pavone “to resume full-time anti-abortion ministry.” Zurek recently suspended Priests for Life leader Frank Pavone for “concerns about financial improprieties.” According to a press release from the group: To ensure that the Diocese understands exactly what is at stake in Bishop Zurek’s decision to “suspend” Fr. Pavone from pro-life work outside of Amarillo, CBR’s picket signs will include large, color photos of aborted babies. Pickets will be conducted at many of the Diocese’s forty-nine parish churches, with special emphasis on St

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Somos Republicans, a Latino group from the Southwest, wrote an open letter to the future House GOP leadership on Tuesday asking it to reconsider putting Rep.

This is your horrible, dystopian future: John Yoo, the former Office of Legal Counsel official who had a hand in crafting the Bush administration’s detentions,

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is not only surging across the nation, but is leading the first-in-the-nation caucus state. A new poll by Rasmussen Reports indicates that Perry is now closing in on 30 percent support, with his nearest opponent more than 10 points behind.

Republican Party of Florida Chairman Lenny Curry is defending his state’s primary selection process, which has resulted in a Jan. 31, 2012 date that has thwarted the will of the national political parties

For the last 48 hours, all eyes in Washington have been on Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Independent who stirred a storm Sunday by announcing his

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, slammed Obama administration officials

Three-quarters of Americans support the troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities; Cheney’s in the other quarter. Just because Madoff’s in jail doesn’t mean the

He’s decidedly anti-trigger. And he’s opposed to health care co-ops. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health

Gen. Stanley McChrystal is citing these figures in the expansion of the Afghan security forces as an accomplishment of his first year in command of the

The objections to cap-and-trade legislation have been almost entirely economic: an emissions reduction program, the argument goes, would raise energy costs and

Though big labor was dealt a blow last week by news that the Employee Free Choice Act will likely not make it to the floor, they’ve quietly scored a big win.

The Indiana Republican’s office sends it over. It’s brief, with a preamble that quotes the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and a soaring

Pundits react to Obama’s escalation: it’s the right move; it’s the wrong move; it’s confusing. Democratic lawmakers have similarly mixed

Last week, it was clear that Democrats considered the NY-23 race closer than the polls suggested, and that Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman had truly