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Coming off months of poor fundraising, the Republican National Committee generated buzz last week by announcing a big August fundraiser in California that would

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Yesterday, Gov.

Just after the release of the ex-CIA directors’ letter condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s torture inquiry, here comes this statement from Justice

In Louisiana, where Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) is trying to steal Sen. David Vitter’s (R-La.) Senate seat, Melancon’s drilling moratorium amendment is

A new poll from Bloomberg News shows likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers split four ways between Herman Cain, U.S.

As Mike Lillis reported yesterday, a small group of Senate Democrats is pushing to revive the mortgage loan cramdown idea -- a sure sign of frustration as

In September, I embedded with units from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, which ran Task Force Curahee in eastern Afghanistan. Its

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said it was a mistake holding a Valentine’s Day-Eve hearing into whether

Alexi Giannoulias, a Democratic candidate for an Illinois Senate seat, has a fun new website at 700billionreasons.com. Giannoulias is lobbying for Congress to

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds that about half of Americans approve of the way President Obama handled the Gulf oil spill, now that the flow of oil has

With the news that Citibank screens some of its clients for objectionable content -- and applies that screening process to gay-themed businesses -- many LGBT

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, finally put rumors to rest yesterday by confirming that he will not launch a campaign for U.S.

Last week, Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans from Texas, urged the Obama administration to take action against the drug violence

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just wrapped a presentation at the Heritage Foundation about how he expected conservative media to attempt discredit the Democrats’

By the end of this week, 40 state legislatures will have adjourned, concluding a legislative season full of proposed bills aimed to restrict women’s access to

Over at Hungry Hungry Hippos. they’ve taken me to task for my post Wednesday on efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with abandoned and vacant properties by

If President-elect Barack Obama wants to win support for a package to help out struggling homeowners, he will have to help the public understand that we’re all affected by the mortgage crisis.

The rising tide of violence in Afghanistan identified in the United Nations’ most recent quarterly country report got the lion’s share of the press attention

Various interest groups are touting infrastructure investment as a particularly effective economic stimulus strategy because, they claim, such projects can

The effort within the McCain campaign’s upper ranks to pin Sen. John McCain’s loss of the presidential election on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now in full swing,

As the fight over union rights continues to rage in Wisconsin, at least four other states have become battlegrounds as well. It has been reported that Iowa,