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A conservative front group is calling on the Federal Election Commission to look into Emily’s List-endorsed Lois Frankel’s campaign finances.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General today released a report that confirms the problems surrounding the controversial 287(g)

Controversial preacher Bradlee Dean says that House Speaker Kurt Zellers asked to appear on Dean’s radio show, the Sons of Liberty, the week before Dean gave a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House . Dean’s claim stands in stark contrast to Zeller’s words condemning Dean, as well as House leadership’s insistence that they weren’t familiar with Dean.

In light of Georgia’s plans to go through with the execution of Troy Davis at 7:00 p.m. EST tonight, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses that

Rosa Brooks, a senior Pentagon adviser, will lead the office amid growing recognition that local perceptions of the U.S. military play a key battlefield role.

About an hour ago, the NATO command in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force, sent out a disturbing release expressing dee regrets for an

One of Texas’ most influential lobbying groups has expanded its reach to Washington, taking its arguments against government spending and environmental

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

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

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

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

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

Record another data point for the Obama administration’s military-civilian resource shift. In a speech yesterday to the still-leaderless USAID, Secretary of

Earlier this afternoon, Friends of the Earth, an environmental group that opposes the Democrats’ soon-to-be-voted-on climate change bill, shot out an email

Later today, the Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote on House-passed legislation extending the filing deadline for unemployment benefits through the

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who campaigned for Barack Obama during his election, is becoming increasingly displeased with the president’s stance on

Last night, Dave showed that the looming hold on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is no partisan matter, with Rep. Joe You Lie Wilson (R-S.C.) and former

Despite the Legislature’s failure to pass a bill this year to increase the percentage of votes needed to pass a voter initiated constitutional amendment, grassroots advocates recently voiced their opposition to the move they see as part of a trend by legislators to limit the power of the people. Those advocates say that making it more difficult for the people to circumvent the Legislature by changing the constitution by direct vote only gives Capitol lobbyists more power to make laws and reduces the influence of the average citizen.

I meant to blog this when it first came out, but Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times writer Paul Krugman has as good an evisceration of the

A subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a bill that would require the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas, by Nov. 1

The America’s Future Now! conference, organized by the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, kicked off in Washington today, and TWI’s crack video team