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Most of the stories about the Republican filibuster yesterday of the defense authorization bill have focused on two amendments it squashed: a repeal of Don’t

I asked CIA spokesman George Little to respond to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charge that the CIA misled Congress about torture. Here’s his response: The

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Here’s an interesting fact: despite the massive size of the Gulf oil spill, it’s not actually the biggest oil spill ever to occur in the United States. That

Barely an hour after word came from Vienna that an Iranian negotiating team has accepted a draft version of a deal to ship nuclear fuel out of the country for

Carl Swensson, the man who’s trying to get legally dubious Citizen Grand Juries to indict President Obama for ... something (Swensson doesn’t even think

After filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the Virginia-based Americans for Limited Government obtained documents from the Department of Homeland

Ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), following the introduction of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor by

The Washington Post runs a breathless piece of Kremlinology arguing that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is a force of political reason within

Speaking in the Rose Garden, surrounded by three unemployed workers, this morning President Obama again castigated Republicans for blocking the federal

In a welcome break from past policy, the Obama administration last week announced that it will abandon a handful of deceptive budget gimmicks used perennially

The wait is over. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) just announced that she’ll support the $829 billion health reform bill soon to be voted on by the Senate Finance

It’s Groundhog Day in the Senate. After voting 85-2 yesterday to proceed to legislation extending unemployment benefits at least 14 weeks nationwide, the

Speaking of House seats ... the math geek readers of Swing State Project have released their latest round of data on congressional districts, calculating the

Via Scott Reckard at the L.A. Times, two companies released national reports yesterday showing a decline in serious mortgage delinquencies, when homeowners are

A lot of hubbub this morning surrounding a Huffington Post article that suggested the White House was willing to cave on its position of permanently extending

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin recently assured voters that she keeps a close watch from her perch in Wasilla when the Russian government rears its head on her

From the letter delivered to the Treasury secretary Monday from the office of Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform

This afternoon, the Senate passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, providing $4.5 billion to school lunch and other federal child-nutrition programs. If

The conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media is holding a 40th anniversary conference at Washington’s Omni Shoreham hotel today, with speakers including

Officials in the Obama administration said they anticipate that if all goes as planned, the federal government will purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in