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Scaled-back health reform is a fantasy. Krugman’s losing patience with the House approach to health care. But most Americans want Congress to put the

Here’s a portion of a press release issued by Said Jawad, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Washington, to mark the recent rise in U.S. military fatalities in his

Via David Dayen, Tom Braithwaite at the Financial Times reports a blockbuster for proponents of strong bank reform: Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s (D-Ark.) provision to

The president’s semi-active Twitter account just sent out this message: The House is voting on a historic clean energy bill today. Have you called your

I don’t yet have the transcript of his presser this afternoon, but according to Reuters, Defense Secretary Bob Gates has embraced the measure to reduce the

It’s just an early version -- or so the Democrats are saying -- but Senate leaders appear to be that much closer to extending the filing deadline for

Assume that the senior officials in the Bush administration acted in good faith from March until August of 2002, when senior officials in Washington were

The tea party movement, a phenomenon that many deem responsible for installing Florida’s all-Republican cabinet and turning over control of the House of Representatives to the GOP, continues to demonstrate its influence throughout the state and the country.

On Tuesday, we broke the story of an undisclosed Office of Legal Counsel memo from 2007 about what interrogation techniques were and weren’t legal for the CIA

Today at the Center for American Progress, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) urged the Senate to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction

Moderate Democrats have grown wary of big spending bills, fearing that support for such measures could haunt them on the campaign trail this year.

The week before the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is one of countless stories poking gentle fun at the stranger items on the schedule. Alex

Eartha Melzer, our colleague at Michigan Messenger, has been doing some of the best reporting on Dow Chemical’s successful efforts to evade responsibility for

The Wall Street Journal Political Diary reported that Republicans are worried that Gov. Charlie Crist, independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, is

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he still would like to see hearings on abuses of the 14th Amendment by illegal immigrants who come

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) got Fred Roitz of Blackwater -- sorry, Xe Services, the new name for the company -- to say that Blackwater shell company Paravant

Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging

Action comes less than a month after Pentagon leadership suggested the ban on open gay service wouldn’t be overturned this year.

In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who’s being mentioned as a potential Cabinet member in an Obama administration