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The Atlanta Federal Home Loan Bank loaned $51.5 billion to Countrywide -- a mortgage lender at the heart of the subprime crisis -- in 2007. Washington Mutual,

So golf balls and old tires didn’t work. Now the best technology that BP’s engineers and Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s team of experts can

This is part of the voicemail that callers get when they’re unable to reach someone at GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s campaign headquarters in

A senior Senate source emails with this preview of what to expect in the chamber’s energy bill, which is expected to take shape in the coming weeks. The

So Ari Shapiro’s NPR story yesterday placed then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales -- a.k.a. God’s gift to Talking Points Memo -- at the center of the

Add Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to the list of Republican senators who have said they would support a review of birthright

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 460,000, down 14,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department announced this morning. Economists had expected

Breaking from The Associated Press: President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team,

Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, defended his organization’s “legislative manual” in an interview with National Public Radio on Wednesday. The manual asserted that gays and lesbians are more likely to practice sex with animals and children and that they enjoy eating human excrement .

The new Quinnipiac Poll has Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican who’s ridden a wave of good press in his Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist

When it comes to the super PAC game, the Federal Election Commission sent clear signals Thursday morning: Stephen Colbert can play, but elected officials should refrain. Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report,” told supporters via his show, Twitter and Facebook in May that he and attorney Trevor Potter, a former FEC chairman, were asking the FEC to provide an advisory opinion regarding the creation of a Colbert Super PAC. “The American Dream is simple — that anyone, no matter who they are, if they are determined, if they are willing to work hard enough, someday will grow up to create a legal entity that will then receive unlimited corporate funds which can be used to influence our elections,” Colbert said previously.

Tea Party Nation, the group that sponsored the National Tea Party Convention and announced a clear stance against third parties, is helping the effort to

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.

One aspect of the housing market that seems to be holding true is that no one is left untouched by its decline, and that includes the rich and powerful. First

Residents of Southwest Ranches and Pembroke Pines, as well as immigrant advocates, will gather Thursday to once again voice their opposition to the construction of a privately run immigration detention center in Broward County.

The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee.

The health and human services budget bill has passed and both chambers have agreed to a temporary spending authority bill. The closing remarks have been made. The gavel has fallen.

Yesterday’s Republican attempt to — well, technically to resolve to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), but more realistically to keep the CIA

Rhetoric that defies logic -- and tact -- is not exclusive to the tea party. At Friday’s Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser in

Evidently out of patience with attacks on the Obama administration for reading would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights, John

Following a meeting with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today, Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Lakeland, said in a press release that the federal agency tasked with protecting the environment has “taken the broad authority irresponsibly ceded to them by Congress, and run wild with it.” Ross also said that the agency “must realize that moms and dads cannot afford thousands more in power bills or plummeting home values.” According to his press release, Ross’ conversation with Jackson centered mostly on the federally mandated numeric nutrient criteria and the future of radiation flyovers. The nutrient criteria were mandated by the EPA after a lawsuit brought by several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and the St