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This week, with Congress back from the Memorial Day recess, legislators will again push for a $23 billion aid bill to keep public-school teachers in their

Sotomayor Hearings Toolbox: Here’s a live stream on C-SPAN with multiple cameras angles for interactive fun. The Wonk Room, SCOTUSblog, The Huffington Post’s

One reason I pay a lot of attention to Glenn Beck is that, viewer for viewer and listener for listener, he has a more direct impact on the conservative movement

After noting that the disturbed woman who accused Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) of supporting a Nazi policy was a LaRouche cultist, I checked out the trove of

They weren’t kidding when they said this evening’s markup of finance reform legislation would be a speedy affair. The Banking Committee took less than an

John McCain is right about John McCain, said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), speaking to reporters this morning as an Obama surrogate. Emanuel seized on a

In non-shoe-throwing news, Anand Gopal of the Christian Science Monitor does some great reporting about something called the Afghan Social Outreach Program,

The head of the Senate Banking Committee, Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd, announced this morning that a long-awaited proposal to install sweeping new oversight

Throughout the Bush administration, Bush officials -- including the president, as you can see here -- consistently said that this government does not torture

In a blow to the coal industry’s fight against climate change legislation, Duke Energy, the electric utility giant, has dropped out of the American Coalition

This morning, environmental activists erected two 20-foot teepees (for lack of a better term) in front of EPA headquarters in Washington to protest mountaintop

Here’s your chance to tell the Department of Homeland Security what you think a sound immigration policy is, or whether you should be allowed to take your

Incumbent Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) candidate Chas Roemer appears to have violated state campaign law by accepting a $20,000

Well, this isn’t going to soothe the GOP’s internal critics of Michael Steele, who worry that his celebrity distracts him from the party’s message. He stars in

One can hardly wander around the White House or the Treasury Department without bumping into someone who worked for Goldman Sachs. A short list: The

I reported yesterday that there was some friction between the Tea Party Patriots and Our Country Deserves Better PAC, the organization that launched the Tea

Here’s another Ted Kennedy video. This is the departed Massachusetts senator in a press conference after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his

A six-pack of noteworthy tidbits from this week’s news: # Your state lawmakers are most likely richer than you: See this report from the News Service of Florida. Only in Florida: A former governor’s fraternity brother gets embroiled in a legal battle with a businessman tied to the Jordanian royal family over a lucrative Pentagon contract. Adam Hasner on the Truth-O-Meter: False

Today, the Obama administration lays out the case against a nationwide foreclosure moratorium. In the Huffington Post, Shaun Donovan, the Secretary of Housing

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor today to decry the crippling effect of federal income taxes on families and the economy. While we

Sen. Barack Obama issued a statement responding to the Military Commission verdict for Salim Hamdan, who was just found guilty of material support for

After confirming that the administration has determined 48 detainees at Guantanamo who are not feasible to transfer too dangerous to prosecute, Attorney