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Just days after Sen. Blanche Lincoln made headlines for amending the Democrats’ budget plan to include a $10 million estate tax exemption, the moderate Arkansas

Few innocent victims of post-9/11 counter-terrorism policies have been able to sustain their claims against government officials in federal courts, although

Here’s a fun accounting term to remember: accretable yield. That’s the difference between a loan’s value on a bank’s balance sheet and the expected cash flow

Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy, testified that imprisoning some Guantanamo detainees in the United States would make it politically

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced Friday that she would not move her state’s presidential primary into January, which would likely force Iowa and New Hampshire to also jump ahead

I’ve been covering anonymous campaign spending and concerns about the possibility of voter fraud or vote suppression in the lead-up to the midterm elections for

This week, the Senate might turn to Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)’s standalone bill to continue federally extended unemployment insurance benefits.* The jobs

More news on the business ethics front: Some Wall Street firms receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailout funds are finding creative ways to get around

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood ran the newest foreclosure numbers from a selection of Michigan counties and found some surprises. In Wayne County, home

Even though virtually all congressional Republicans -- including the party’s Senate and House leadership -- praised President Obama’s handling of the removal

Following the decisive cloture vote moments ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has now been confirmed by the Senate for a second term. The 70-30 margin

Iowa Senate District 18 Democratic candidate Liz Mathis has outraised Republican opponent Cindy Golding, $63,406 to $44,808, and the Democrat enjoyed $292,426 of in-kind contributions compared to $69,418 for Golding. Mathis and Golding are locked in a special election that will determine control of the Iowa Senate. Former State Sen.

After writing my last post, I feel compelled to point out that while investigators may believe so far that Ft. Hood shooting suspect Nidal Malik Hasan acted

The Iran petroleum-sanctions bill authored by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif) is scheduled for debate in the House imminently. That bill, if it passes, wouldn’t

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, thereby striking down Proposition 8 -- the

Today, President Obama pushed for the Senate to pass the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act -- a modestly sized bill that might unlock as much as $300 billion

House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner quietly launched yet another fundraising committee last week to aid Republican efforts to take back the House this

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post: When Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told The Washington Post that he was studying Winston Churchill’s political insurgency, he

It’s a token of how surprised people are by Rand Paul’s U.S. Senate campaign in Kentucky that a poll showing him 19 points up is spun this way by the

According to a new analysis by Campaign Money Watch, an officially nonpartisan but left-leaning campaign finance watchdog group, lobbyists with ties to Sen.

Last night, the Senate agreed to a proposal by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to reduce the funds available to TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, from $700