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TPMDC’s Christina Bellantoni reports on a wild scene over at the Cannon House Office Building, following Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) anti-health care

We are in the midst of a jobs crisis, with the unemployment rate stuck around 9.7 percent. The labor market is particularly bleak in terms of duration of

As the health care debate slogs on, Republicans are using the town-hall forums of August as proof that Americans oppose the Democrats’ health reform plans,

The GOP’s leader in the House pounces on today’s New York Times report that the White House is ready to go it alone if Republicans won’t back a health care

Closing Guantanamo and ending the military commissions is the easy part. It’s what to do with the people imprisoned there that’s already presenting a political problem for the president-elect and his new administration.

The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service this week released the results of a study on the economic security of families in

Good for The New York Times and reporter Elisabeth Bumiller, who’ve modified their initial phrasing in today’s piece about Guantanamo so as not to presume that

The claims process in the Gulf Coast has not gone as fast as I had hoped,” Kenneth Feinberg told an angry crowd in Louisiana, according to The New York

Forgive me: I’ve been preoccupied with reporting and writing my just-published ArmorGroup whistleblower piece. But don’t miss this amazing first-person account

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, used his opening statement during Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s

Here are three letters sent to the intelligence community from President Obama, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and CIA Director Leon Panetta.

As Sen.

I’m late on this, but Politico has a piece today about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) 2010 legislative/political strategy, and it involves taking a forceful

Gov. Rick Perry declined to come out against New York’s recent passage of marriage equality over the weekend, claiming it’s a policy states have the right

Both Reps. Michele Bachmann and Keith Ellison weighed in on the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi on Thursday, expressing relief that the Libyan people no longer have to live under a violent dictator. Gaddafi was killed by rebels on Wednesday after the found him in a sewage tunnel.

While the Obama campaign contends that Republican challenges to voter-registration drives by ACORN and other groups are illegitimate, it consistently has

NASHVILLE -- During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl did a sit-down interview with embattled New York Congressman Anthony Weiner days ago, back when Weiner was still determinedly following the exact wrong script on how to weather a political scandal, lying up and down about how photos of his crotch ended up on the internet, denying the undeniable and preening with faux outrage at Karl and other members of the press for asking questions.

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., on Thursday praised the work of the U.S

Today is third-quarter Federal Election Commission filing day, which means it’s the last day for candidates and political committees to report their hauls (and