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While politicians and religious leaders have been outspoken on Republican efforts to put a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage on the ballot next year, Friday’s Senate committee hearing included a little-heard-from voice: that of a young, straight, Republican woman who opposes the measure. In testimony lasting under three minutes, Madeline Koch , 24, identifies herself as both Republican and straight before acknowledging that up until three years ago she’d never had a gay friend. But her opposition to the measure, she said, is ideological — focused on future generations — instead of personal or partisan

When last we left the saga of the CIA’s 2004 inspector general report on torture, Judge Alvin Hellerstein had left the ACLU hanging on its objection to the

Experts will likely be debating the constellation of factors that led to last year’s financial downturn for years to come, but many conservatives arrived at

Four Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for EPA Administrator Stephen

President Obama will return to Minnesota at the end of August to address the national meeting of the American Legion. Obama was in Minnesota on Monday as a part of his jobs tour. Also speaking at the American Legion meeting will be Michele Bachmann, considered in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates vying to defeat Obama

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

Unmentioned in President Obama’s speech to Congress last night was the impending battle over card check, which promises to be anything but post-partisan. As

AMES — Former Iowa First Lady Christie Vilsack , promising a church-potluck civility, announced her campaign this morning for Congress as a Democrat in the state’s new 4th District, a sweep of 39 counties in western and central Iowa. Most of the counties are now represented by U.S. Rep.

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel Martinez

A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week: - The Justice Department filed a suit against the state of Arizona on Tuesday for its controversial

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

From today’s White House press briefing: Q Are you still confident that this could be a legitimate election tomorrow? MR. GIBBS: We look forward to

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

Tomorrow is Georgia’s Republican primary runoff for governor. The race is between former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel and former Rep. Nathan Deal

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) has been called out for flip-flopping on the House-backed/Senate-opposed proposal to strip all federal funding from Planned