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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

Late last month, two young coal miners were killed in western Kentucky when a roof collapsed at the Dotiki coal mine, a non-union operation owned by Tulsa,

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at

I didn’t get a substantive response from the National Counterterrorism Center or its director, Michael Leiter, to yesterday’s Senate report singling it out for

This story is the eighth in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents. After nearly seven years of costly strategic ignorance in the U.S. wars in Iraq

With so many bailouts, anti-foreclosure plans and recession-mitigation strategies coming out of the Treasury Department in recent months, it’s easy to forget

A coalition of major environmental groups was planning a big rally outside the Capitol at noon on Thursday to encourage Congress to pass a climate and energy

Health policy experts warn the Democrats’ proposal to terminate the Children’s Health Insurance Program would hike health care costs for low-income families and increase the number of uninsured kids.

To follow up on my earlier post about Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) refusal to hold hearings on the torture memos as chair of the Judiciary Committee, we now learn,

To the surprise of no one, the House approved sweeping reforms to the credit card industry Thursday, including provisions banning retroactive rate increases,

In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee yesterday, former Fed chairman and Obama economic adviser Paul Volcker said that Congress needed to

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.

Yesterday, birther lawyer Orly Taitz printed a letter from Gary Lima of Greenbrier, claiming that a Republican congressional candidate in Tennessee’s 6th

John Kiriakou was a CIA counterterrorism official involved in the initial capture of Abu Zubaydah in 2002. He was not involved in Abu Zubaydah’s torture. In

Anyone following the twists and turns of the increasingly cacophonous torture debate knows by now that one way the Office of Legal Counsel justified its many

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) will soon unveil legislation to rein in the overdraft fees that banks charge consumers who exceed their

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) might be balking at the deal Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) secured to have Washington pick up Nebraska’s entire tab for a proposed

I just received a long email from a woman named Theresa Goins, from Bon Secour, Ala. Her fiance, James Martin, has been waiting to receive compensation from the

In the spirit of writing more often about climate research, I thought I’d share some new data on the impact of climate change on coral reefs and forests.

In a six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the health insurance lobby reiterated today that it won’t be supporting the $894 billion reform