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The process is young, but the loudest criticisms of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court have so far come from Republicans leaders wary that she’s

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural

Turns out, it’s a number of the country’s largest banks. In a report out today, several environmental groups rank nine of the biggest players on Wall Street

This afternoon, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on BP, the British oil company responsible for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon

Is the sky falling? Are pigs flying? Apparently Wall Street executives have become sensitive to the fact that while people are losing their jobs and their

As we’ve written here before, Medicaid funding is a tricky business, not least of all because program enrollment always jumps in times of economic turmoil, when

This is the second in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents --- Who is Ray Odierno, anyway? It’s hard to say. Odierno, of course, is not

The New York Times reports that Republican Bob McDonnell rode to an easy victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race Tuesday, based on exit polls. Mr. McDonnell

And just like that, as if to reassure those on the Left that he’s still tuned in to their concerns, comes this report, from First Read: President-elect Obama

Josh Marshall is all over GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s strange statement to reporters that he was unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement. Whatever he

Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. is alleging that two Florida companies may be engaged in scams involving Michigan residents facing foreclosure

With write-in ballots -- the vast majority of which are presumed to be for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) -- garnering nearly 41 percent of the vote in Alaska’s

The good folks at BloggingHeads asked me to film an episode from Afghanistan. So, from my hotel room in Kabul, my friend Rob Farley from Lawyers Guns and Money

If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also have

Just now, following a defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) officially conceded the 2008 Senate race and

The Minnesota governor’s race appears headed for a recount. Republicans, who won the legislature on Tuesday, may seek to draw it out so they can work with Gov. Tim Pawlenty to pass conservative legislation. In the background looms the specter of the 2008 Senate recount.

Politico has a story today on how some of the likely new GOP House members plan to address immigration. Many of them pushed for tough immigration enforcement

British Prime Minister David Cameron today dismissed allegations by four Senate Democrats that BP had worked with the Scottish government to secure the speedy

On a night of celebration for Republicans, there was also a lingering question: Did Tea Party challenges prevent the GOP from taking the Senate?

Just got off a conference call with Caroline Fredrickson, the director of the ACLU’s Washington office. Fredrickson and a number of civil-libertarian and

In the wake of a stern press conference delivered Wednesday by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the lobbying firm Seward Square Group has announced that it