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The Washington Post is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has closed its probe into former Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) alleged harassment of

This evening, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) attached an amendment with funding to preserve teachers’ jobs and to provide much-needed Medicaid funding to states to a

No shocker here. Despite some reservations from a small minority of Republicans, the Senate Finance Committee voted this morning to approve Tim Geithner to

American people do not want amnesty for illegal immigrants or mass deportation, Melody Barnes, Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, told the crowd at an

On her excellent new Foreign Policy blog, Laura Rozen has a great scoop about a secret dinner last week between President-elect Obama at the Woodrow Wilson

I don’t know what benchmarks the Obama administration wants to place on its aid and commitments to Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Well, more on that in a moment.)

Pulling the Medicare provision out of the stalled jobs bill and voting on it separately, the Senate unanimously agreed this afternoon to delay a 21 percent cut

A high school sophomore from New Jersey is challenging Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate on civics and the U.S

Today, Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) took to the Senate floor to argue for the Americans Want to Work Act, a bill

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform recently announced that the group will be picketing “Catholic facilities and activities in the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas.” The anti-abortion group wants to force Bishop Patrick Zurek to allow Father Frank Pavone “to resume full-time anti-abortion ministry.” Zurek recently suspended Priests for Life leader Frank Pavone for “concerns about financial improprieties.” According to a press release from the group: To ensure that the Diocese understands exactly what is at stake in Bishop Zurek’s decision to “suspend” Fr. Pavone from pro-life work outside of Amarillo, CBR’s picket signs will include large, color photos of aborted babies. Pickets will be conducted at many of the Diocese’s forty-nine parish churches, with special emphasis on St

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Frances Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska-Anchorage and a member of the national oil commission, told her colleagues today at the fourth meeting of

Peter Finn at The Washington Post reports this morning that the Justice Department is questioning military defense lawyers about whether they defended suspected

The administration is expected to appeal a judge’s ruling overturning the Defense of Marriage Act. But doing so could cost Obama the support of gay rights advocates.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed its oil spill response bill today on a 48-0 vote. The Hill lays out the details of a compromise struck between

LANSING — Across the Midwest, from Madison to Columbus, organized labor is rallying against legislative and executive moves they say will undermine the ability of workers to organize and bargain collectively. And Michigan is staring down the barrel of very similar questions, debates and legislation. “I am the president of a non-profit that intends to make RTW (Right to Work) a key initiative for the ’11-12 legislative session,” says former state Rep

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but there is the possibility that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) -- who has launched a surprise challenge to Rep. John Dingell’s

Unions and Democrats aren’t the only groups upset with a decision by Gov. Terry Branstad to deny a tax cut to Iowa’s poor. The nonpartisan Iowa Fiscal Partnership is warning the move harms families as well as Iowa’s ongoing economic recovery

It sounds pretty simple: if negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program stall/don’t restart/break down, put together a sanctions package on Iran’s oil

Arthur Delaney notes that Congress, when it returns from campaigning and the midterm elections, will only have seven working days to reauthorize extended