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A key subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in an attempt to sort out varying accounts of the amount of oil that

It’s earnings week -- and the Federal Reserve system is offering up details on its 2009 balance sheet. The bank notes that though the total value of its

The watering down of the proposal for a new consumer financial protection agency continues, with the latest victim the end of vanilla option. Treasury Secretary

Sen. Barack Obama briefly discussed his grandmother while calling voters during a campaign stop Monday night, but he did not mention that she died. From the

Annual event hosts conservatives not looking for change.

Greg Sargent has the scoop: Senator Harry Reid’s office says that if a final decision is made to pass health reform via reconciliation, the Majority Leader

Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is slated to deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s first address to Congress. If I remember it

Rep. Michele Bachmann threw her support behind an anti-abortion activist on Thursday who made undercover videos of a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Jersey. Bachmann said the video, and the fact that Planned Parenthood offers abortion as part of its services, should result in a ban on federal grants for the reproductive health chain

A coalition of environmental groups launched a new web site yesterday that targets lawmakers who have taken money from the oil, natural gas and coal

Banking inconvenience is scaling to new heights in New Mexico and across the country as Bank of America and Wells Fargo plan to roll out separate monthly debit card usage fees. In New Mexico and in four other states, Wells Fargo will pilot a usage fee of $3 a month beginning October 14.

President Barack Obama is giving a speech on his jobs program right now at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver. It’s a hot day and helicopters are circling and people in the crowd are reportedly passing out from exhaustion

This is probably the result of Website neglect, but still. The Defense Department’s official tally of U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan (PDF) lists

Remember Joe Barton (R-Texas)? The ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee who admitted recently that he’s “probably below average in

To much fanfare, Fannie and Freddie Mac recently announced that they would put a moratorium on foreclosures through the holiday season. But for some 765,000

Josh Marshall takes a whack at House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) for telling The Washington Post that he’s studying Winston Churchill’s role leading the

After seven years fighting off custom-made license plates with an anti-abortion-rights message, the state of New York was ordered by a federal judge to allow a

The Chamber of Commerce is ramping up its attacks on Democrats today. As part of its pledge to spend at least $50 million in the current election cycle, it has