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A comprehensive immigration reform bill might be drafted by the end of this year, but President Obama said in Mexico today that he would not expect anything to

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) tweets: The fraudulent Iranian election has mobilized opposition to the Mullah regime; the U.S. should back them, now’s the

The federal government’s answer to the furor over AIG’s payments of ridiculous multi-million dollar bonuses to the same executives who helped drive the company

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), who has said he wants to take over as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has consistently denied the broad

Republicans in the Senate are trying to hold the Defense appropriations bill hostage to their efforts to kill the health care bill. A filibuster has already

Ben Smith at Politico has a good piece attempting to shed light on one of the most opaque aspects of Obama administration Kremlinology: what in the world the

The Interior Department did not appropriately respond to an inspector general report that found former Bureau of Land Management Farmington, N.M., District

Patrick O’Connor explains why Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) broke with the rest of the House leadership and voted for the punitive AIG bonus tax. Cantor is playing

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) ends things after one round of questions without objection. It’s critical to get you in place before the Easter congressional

The federal Respect for Marriage Act has reached a record level of support, the latest coming from a North Carolina lawmaker who seems to object to a fact-tracked state level effort to place a ban on civil marriage for gays and lesbians in the state’s constitution. U.S. Rep

The following chart tells you everything you need to know about the United States’ trading relationship with China on green technology, an issue that you’ll be

Despite stated claims from politicians of every stripe about the desire to free the United States from the grip of foreign energy sources, the federal

According to DFL Reps.

Louis Uchitelle of The New York Times got many of the financial industry’s former (and current) titans to speak on the record about their support of the Volcker

It wasn’t until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arrested for

When I ran into Howard Wolfson, the former message czar for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, at the Democratic National Convention last week, I asked him