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The CIA has been saying it briefed the leadership of the Congressional intelligence committees in 2002 about the enhanced interrogation techniques used on

Private for-profit prison companies spend millions of dollars every year lobbying at the local, state and federal levels for stricter immigration laws and enforcement. The largest such company, Corrections Corporation of America, spent more than $18 million on such activities between 1999 and 2009, reports Fox News. The company is even involved in writing immigration legislation which legislators can then introduce into state legislatures

The Detroit Free Press reports that hospitals in Michigan are taking on a project that helps reduce the number of medically unnecessary C-sections in the state. The project “considered a national model is helping women avoid medically unnecessary C-sections and contributing to healthier outcomes for their babies, project organizers report,” according to the Free Press .

There is a thing called thoughtful skepticism, but this release from the Republican Study Committee, condemning the EPA’s finding that greenhouse emissions

A GOP congressman calls it quits, but Dems still have more to lose from their retirements. Romer says the stimulus is (partly) to thank for today’s good

Dana Goldstein reports on the negotiations behind the anti-abortion rights ad that Focus on the Family bought during the Super Bowl on CBS. Quietly, the network

Spencer Ackerman has an interesting read up this morning on a forthcoming handbook meant to help Washington policy-makers decide whether to intervene in the

Much of the reason our economy is a mess is due to the housing bubble, a period in which too many homes were built -- and too many people bought homes they

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) went forward with a resolution calling for an end to the Afghanistan war yesterday. Predictably, it earned massive and bipartisan

The race between longtime incumbent U.S. Reps

An amusing, rubber-and-glue comment from Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) in a perceptive Glenn Thrush and Marin Cogan piece (one of several from the past 72 hours)

As a reminder that coal mining accidents are not peculiar to either West Virginia or Massey Energy, two miners in Western Kentucky have gone missing after the

The state’s 12 budget bills made their way through the Legislature Tuesday night as Gov. Mark Dayton waited to sign them, ending the 20-day-old state government shutdown.

A poll released this week by Bloomberg shows Texas Governor Rick Perry with a small lead (26-22) over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, with no other candidate preferred by even 10 percent of Republicans. Perry, though, is viewed favorably by only three in ten Americans while being viewed unfavorably by four in ten. Perry, at this point, trails Obama 49-40 among all voters, according to the poll.

Members of the House Education and Labor Committee are holding a satellite hearing this morning in Beckley, W.Va., to examine the Upper Big Branch mine

The congressional reaction this week to Israel’s recent and deadly raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza has, for the most part, fit neatly into three camps:

We need to be buying more oil from Canada. That’s what Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) told a Canadian newspaper this weekend on a trip to the country to observe

Critics of the media will allege that The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both betrayed their slants today, publishing stories about the U.S.

Gov. Rick Scott (left) with Florida Senate President-Designate Don Gaetz, R-Destin (Pic via flgov.com) In its newly released legislative agenda, the Florida Chamber of Commerce extolls the importance of higher ed reforms. Though the Chamber doesn’t delve into specifics, most of its recommendations are seemingly in line with some of Gov

Conservative policy group Americans United for Life’s stated plans to help defund Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) one state at a time were

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama A More Perfect Union Constitution Center Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania We the

The Minnesota Family Council, the lead proponent of a ballot initiative that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution, removed information from its website on Tuesday that said gays and lesbians engage in pedophilia and bestiality . The Family Council’s president Tom Prichard recently said that he hoped for a “respectful debate.” Opponents of the anti-gay marriage amendment seized on Prichard’s statements and the information on the website on Tuesday called on the Family Council to remove it. “We are sorry to hear that the Minnesota Family Council is talking about pedophilia and bestiality when referring to our neighbors, friends, coworkers and family members.