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Curious choice of words from Defense Secretary Bob Gates yesterday on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He’s talking about how to deal with the law-slash-regulation in

Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters,

A pair of stories from The New York Times reveal Sen. John McCain has not divorced himself from lobbyists as much as his presidential campaign would have you

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We’re going to need a lot more examination of government programs to help the long-term unemployed in the years to come. At The Wall Street Journal, Phil Izzo

A proposal by House Speaker Dean Cannon to create a commission to choose the date of Florida’s presidential primary has been added to a controversial overhaul of state election laws . # The commission would consist of nine members — three each appointed by the speaker, the Senate president and the governor — and would be led by the Secretary of State. The plan is intended to give the state flexibility in choosing its primary date

One group hoping to storm Washington is a new, targeted umbrella organization for workers who have exhausted their unemployment benefits, the American 99ers Union.

In a political climate where the most mundane of tasks often appear mired in complex partisan strategies designed to show one party or the other holding a strategic advantage, a U.S. Senate committee has managed something quite unusual. It has managed to come to agreement on the first authorization bill for Homeland Security since the department’s creation in 2003.

Dana Milbank’s Washington Post column today captures the skepticism toward prophecies of the coming apocalypse due to unsustainable entitlement spending.

Next week, the Senate returns from recess to a months-long battle over the extension of expiring programs providing benefits to millions of jobless

The Iowa Family Policy Center , a division of The Family Leader , did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding it received for a controversial marriage-counseling program, according to documents obtained by The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). At the center of the controversy is the recent revelation that the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) might have used taxpayer dollars to wage a campaign against same-sex marriage in the state. Shorty after The Iowa Independent began reporting on IFPC’s Marriage Matters program, IFPC announced they had agreed in September 2009 to stop accepting money from the U.S.

Republicans are not happy with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) plan for oil spill legislation -- they say the leader is giving the issue short

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office told Bloomberg on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be giving interviews this week as she was committed to working in her district. Bachmann’s office made the statement, however, while the Sixth District Republican was on a visit to Hawaii to raise money for Republicans and ahead of a weekend trip to Montana to campaign for her friend Rep

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign is upping the pressure on Sen. Barack Obama over the disputed primary votes in Michigan and

The Obama administration approved a rule requiring gun dealers in Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas to inform the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) if a person buys more than one semiautomatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine and uses ammunition greater than .22 caliber within five days. The rule is an attempt to make it more difficult for Mexican drug cartels to purchase weapons. Straw buyers often purchase guns, which are then smuggled back to Mexico

I ask, Mike Allen answers. So long, Eric Edelman: EXCLUSIVE: Secretary Gates’ deputy at the Pentagon is slated to be Richard Danzig, who was Navy secretary

Dan Weiss, senior fellow and director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, says the fate of energy and climate legislation will be decided on Nov. 2. Environmentalists hope Democrats can pass legislation during the lame duck session, fearing next year’s more conservative Congress.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock today announced appointments to the 2011 Denver Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Commission. The Commission is comprised of 22 sitting commissioners tasked with providing the mayor with insight and communication with the GLBT community in Denver. “One of my core values is inclusiveness,” Mayor Hancock said in a press release.

Byrd’s passing means a steeper climb for financial regulatory reform. McCain disagrees with Jan Brewer’s claim that most people crossing from Mexico to the

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When Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) took first and second, respectively, at Saturday’s Ames Straw Poll, they weren’t the only victors; Iowa’s tea party movement, and particularly social and religious conservatives within the movement, mobilized to bring their voices on issues to the forefront. But pundits find it unlikely similar voices will crop up throughout the nation, the tea party movement’s boost may be short-lived, and mobilization in one contest does not represent a new divide in the Republican between fiscal moderates and social conservatives