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Following up on the revelation that four western oil-giants are getting massive no-bid contracts from the Iraqi Oil Ministry comes the least surprising story of

The ethics committee meeting is now in full swing, and Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas), the lead Democrat on the investigation panel, has laid out the four broad

As lawmakers in Washington look for answers to ongoing economic woes, U.S. Sen.

Flouting a federal court order, the CIA refused Wednesday to make public long-secret records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on

So says the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee -- a group of economists charged with officially determining whether the

Provided South Carolina’s GOP can raise enough money to host the coveted first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, the state will significantly impact which

The count was 56 to 43 to tweak the large health reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday. Because the proposal was moving via the reconciliation

Earlier this week, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) told Fox News that he doesn’t support a tax hike to pay for the Afghanistan war until the nation’s jobless rate

In an election cycle that looks increasingly like it might be a Republican wave year, Texas would seem like an unlikely place for Democrats to go looking for

Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, reports on his blog that earmarks have declined sharply, down 17 percent in volume and 27 percent

The organization that has most affected American politics over the last eight years is one whose endorsement no candidate would ever seek: the Al Qaeda terrorist movement. This year, Al Qaeda’s candidate appears to be McCain, according to many former intelligence officials and terrorism experts.

Not Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). Her quest for celebrity, it seems, has trumped her duties as the elected representative of Minnesota’s 6th Congressional

Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a clean energy initiative that will award grants for entrepreneurial projects by university

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Despite expressing concerns with his state’s “fetal personhood” amendment, which would define life as beginning at conception, Mississippi Gov.

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) leading opponent Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) by double digits in the race for the U.S.

<p>With gas prices rising and home values falling, Sen. John McCain sought to assuage voters’ economic worries in a speech in Pittsburgh today. Most major

This morning’s Senate session was devoted to a debate surrounding the DISCLOSE Act, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated will likely

As former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan continues to spin his defense of his legacy, we noted this week that his early mentor, Ayn Rand, would have

It’s no surprise that the FBI is investigating four companies at the heart of the financial crisis to find out whether criminal wrongdoing helped lead to their

In one of the more bizarre subplots of the Iraq war, the United States has for years protected thousands of members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, an Iranian

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