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Five House lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today calling for the Obama administration to push for the establishment at climate

The senior senator from Texas is set for an 11 a.m. announcement on whether or not she’ll retire from the Senate, setting up what, for now, would be a

The notion of a "nuclear renaissance" was raised this week at a congressional hearing about whether the United States should take other countries’

Apropos of this insightful Marc Ambinder post on the push to equate Trent Lott’s 2002 gaffe with Harry Reid’s current flap, here is the entirety of the new

Though Leon Panetta is inexperienced, his political ties to President-elect Barack Obama could keep the agency relevant.

Down in Florida, the St. Petersburg Times has launched yet another rocket at billionaire and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene: At a project called

This article has been updated to clarify the relationship between Life Always and Heroic Media. Not shying away from controversy, anti-abortion rights media

GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller has officially filed suit in federal court against the Alaska Division of Elections’ announced rules for counting write-in votes

Sonia Sotomayor’s public characterization neglects her quintessential American story of growing up in public housing and then going on to graduate at the top of her class at Princeton and serve as an editor of the law review at Yale.

If Republicans are too harsh on their members (like Delaware’s Rep. Mike Castle) for occasionally voting out of step with their party, are Democrats too

Here’s a tea leaf, and, I’m afraid, a 2006-vintage joke. As an indication of President Obama’s continuing displeasure with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Bloomberg’s Ryan Donmoyer digs deeper into the question of whether the administration’s plan to scale back deductability of charity donations by wealthy

More bad poll numbers are greeting Democrats as they recover from Labor Day barbecues and stump speeches, raising the question of how Democratic incumbents will

As Congress begins the lame-duck session, both houses are under increasing pressure to pass the DREAM Act, a bill that would allow some undocumented young

Yale economist Robert Shiller has a column on inflexibility in the labor markets that provides commonsense insight into the current unemployment situation. To

When the Des Moine Register published a profile of former Minnesota Gov.

I wish that the results of this new survey from Public Policy Polling, via Eric Kleefeld, were more surprising. Among Republicans... only 27% say Obama

But as a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday afternoon revealed, there’s little consensus in Congress over where and how to prosecute terror suspects, or the likely consequences of the various alternatives.

Presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann has increased her share of likely Republican support to about 18 percent, according to a nationwide poll released today.

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