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Environmentalists scrambled today to get control of the midterm narrative following a crushing defeat for Democrats in the House and Senate. At a press

An editorial in the Los Angeles Times implored state education officials to re-instate an erasure analysis of standardized public school tests. The state

Normally when I see the Wall Street Journal flash breaking news like, the Dow industrials fall more than 600 on fears bailout package vote will fail, I’d

This is one of those lopsided things where if they win it’s nothing, said Grover Norquist, and if we win it’s the cover of Time magazine.

Women and minorities are under-represented in the nearly 6,000 appointments Texas Gov. Rick Perry has made in his decade in office, according to the Abilene

The U.S. House of Representatives could vote this week on a 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations bill passed last Thursday by the Appropriations Committee that includes expanded spending on immigration enforcement. # The Appropriations Committee members include Florida Republicans Ander Crenshaw, C.W.

Not many party strategists were talking last night, but come January 2011, that’s who many expect to be filling the Senate seats of, respectively, Byron Dorgan

New Mexico lost 30,600 non-farm jobs from June 2006 to June 2011, placing it 22nd out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in job numbers, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, there was overall job growth in three of the past five years

CQ reports that Angela McGlowan, a Fox News contributor and author of BAMBOOZLED: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda, is

As Dave Weigel notes, the Tea Party movement to protest the mortgage rescue plan and other government bailouts rolls on, with a planned rally Friday in front of

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham (R-Ames) raised more than twice as much as U.S

You’d think nothing could top Rudy Giuliani’s noun-verb-9/11ism, but, via Ben Smith, that’s because you don’t pay enough attention to Rep. Peter King

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr ) The Supreme Court announced today that its hearings in the lawsuit challenging the new federal health care reform law will begin on March 26 and will last three days. Florida is leading the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a suit that includes 25 other states. State officials have argued that the alleged unconstitutionality of the individual mandate is grounds for striking the bill in its entirety. That argument has not been upheld in lower court decisions

Four reports released today by the national oil spill commission detail mistakes made by the White House in the chaotic aftermath of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Anti-marriage-equality advocates have a spotless record when it comes to helping prevent voter approval of state laws allowing same-sex marriage: 31 out of 31.

Although a measure to fund the war effort passed the House late Thursday night, two-thirds of Democrats voted to impose a withdrawal timetable.

While major corporations and utility companies have accommodated themselves to the reality of climate change and the necessity of doing something about it, the

In a speech at the Minneapolis Convention Center Tuesday, Pres.

Word coming down the pike: the Senate Armed Services Committee is gearing up to release a fuller version of its report from last year on how the Rumsfeld-era

In reporting on my story today about the behind-the-scenes battle over requiring employers receiving stimulus money to weed out undocumented workers by using

Ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed today by Libyans near his hometown of Sirte. His death comes two months after he was removed from power.

A Denver 2022 Winter Olympic bid may face a much stiffer challenge than the ongoing squabble between U.S. and international Olympic officials over revenue sharing

For supporters of the bill to grant Washington, D.C., a voting representative in Congress, it may be 2010 or never. At least that’s the warning coming from