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After a day of trying to get an official response here to the House Armed Services Committee’s ban on funding the Thomson Corrections Center to house Guantanamo

Here’s how the balloting for the Republican National Committee chair vote works. There are 168 voters: when one man gets 85 votes, he wins. They can choose

One small and largely overlooked part of the $44.1 billion Homeland Security budget that passed the Senate on Tuesday involves a provision to expand the

Until recently, most of the debate over nuclear power in Colorado had to do with whether to mine and mill more uranium to be shipped elsewhere for conversion into fuel rods to power nuclear plants in other states and other countries around the world. The magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan on March 11 changed both the nature and the tenor of the discussion in Colorado – a state that produced some of the uranium ore used in developing the nation’s first nuclear weapons. Hearings last month for a proposed up-zoning in Pueblo County that would allow for a clean energy park and a nuclear power plant drew large crowds of area residents concerned about events in Japan.

Small scoop from Connecticut: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is hosting a Smackdown in Bridgeport, Connecticut on November 2, the day voters will decide

With 7,000 Americans exhausting their unemployment insurance (UI) each day, Senate Democrats are hoping this week to pass legislation extending those benefits

Today, the Federal Reserve released the minutes of its June Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Noting strong economic headwinds, the FOMC revised down its

Politico’s Jake Sherman reports that Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), the head of the House Natural Resources Committee, has asked the Justice Department to consider

Remember when the former governor and senator from Georgia was lecturing Democrats about how they’d stopped being a national party? That was a while

There are a lot of these sort of lists floating around today, but I couldn’t help chiming in. So, without further ado, here’s my list of the races with the

Political isolation is something the Iranians are very much concerned about, said Thomas Pickering, who served as undersecretary of state in the Clinton administration, arguing that continued diplomacy gave the U.S. the leverage of presenting Iran with a united coalition.

Activists in Kansas, “outraged” at Gov. Sam Brownback’s participation in next month’s prayer and fasting event hosted by Gov. Rick Perry and the

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the architects of a cap-and-trade bill, are planning to meet with environmental leaders today to discuss

The post-midterm hangover is still wearing off, but the Republican leadership is already starting to give a pretty good idea of what it intends to do once it

Following midterm elections, what kind of mandate can the Republican Party claim? A new Bloomberg National Poll indicates that while voters are ready to elect

The Environmental Protection Agency last week threatened to revoke the permit for the largest mountaintop removal mine in all of Appalachia, citing the harmful effects the project would have on local water quality.

The Senate just tabled the amendment proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) that would have prohibited use of Justice Department funds to prosecute the 9/11

Chuck Hagel is NOT happy with this line of reasoning. But Biden wants that ’SNL’ invite.

Not even nine months after President Obama, with much fanfare, signed into law a five year, $33 billion reauthorization of the popular Children’s Health

ABC News reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is heading to Iowa later this month in order to meet with local pols as she contemplates entering the

Looking for bi-partisan support for his stimulus package, President Barack Obama wants to hold off on letting bankruptcy judges help struggling homeowners.