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Here is David Axelrod (PDF), speaking with CBS’s Bob Shieffer this weekend: BOB SHIEFFER: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse now we find that

Today, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission -- the bipartisan panel examining the causes of the financial crisis that plunged the country into recession --

The House will shortly begin debating a resolution to denounce a U.N. report into Israeli and Hamas war crimes in last year’s Gaza war co-sponsored by Rep.

Last night the Kentucky Senate race between Attorney General Jack Conway (D) and ophthalmologist Rand Paul (R) took a turn to serious issues, like the worship

Just as many advocates were hoping, the debate over immigration has begun. Where and when it will end is anybody’s guess. Right after yesterday’s meeting

The federal government might officially be closed, and House Democrats might have canceled votes, but don’t tell Senate leaders that there’s more precipitation

Via Climate Progress, E&E News reports that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is planning to

Mark Hosenball at Newsweek names some people potentially in the running to be director of national intelligence in an Obama administration: Some prominent

Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its disenchanted brothers in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged

Inspired by the numerous videos that have already been created as a part of the anti-suicide and anti-bullying public awareness campaign “It Gets Better,” federal government employees from the National Parks Service, U.S.

Part 1: Programs like Bush-initiated Hope Now allow government and lending industry to show they are doing something while not doing much

The Federal Reserve released its flow-of-funds report yesterday, and the document shows household net worth has fallen $11.4 trillion from its 2007 bubble-era

A year later, Obama’s popularity is nearly identical to Election Day. Canadians still distrust the United States. HBO will air a documentary tonight on

Daniel Indiviglio at The Atlantic lists five reasons to celebrate President Obama’s renewed commitment to nuclear energy. Let’s take a look at numbers one and

I’ve been leafing through BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response Plan, which was the subject of a widely read analysis by the Associated Press. Now that the oil

At least according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, the results of which were released over the weekend. From The Times: The national telephone

John Patrick Bedell, who shot and wounded two police officers near the Pentagon earlier this month, bought at least one of his 9 mm guns at a Nevada gun show,

The Securities and Exchange Commission last month warned oil spill victims who have received money under the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to beware of investment

The new Quinnipiac poll on Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race shows Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) thrashing Republican candidate Pat Toomey, but only narrowly

Commenting on the undisclosed cash that was spent in the 2010 elections and the campaign finance reform battles that lie ahead in Congress, Democracy 21

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is slated to testify next week before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on the role of the Interior Department in the

We’ve heard a lot about the potential health impacts of the oil spill, but not much has been said about the mental health impacts. BP announced Monday it is