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Here’s the letter from Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asking Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to

Via The Hill, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee later this month to testify on his role

As Jeremy Scahill notes in his excellent interview of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Feingold is pretty much the only man on Capitol Hill willing to take on the

In a coup for offshore wind advocates, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed today the first ever lease for an offshore wind project in the United

At The Washington Post, Lori Montgomery has details on a possible White House stimulus plan comprised entirely of tax cuts: Among the options are a temporary

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a pipeline safety bill that calls for automatic shut-off valves on new pipelines and requires new safety inspections for pre-1970 natural gas pipelines like the one that exploded and killed eight people in San Bruno, California last year.

An attempt by Rep.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon will address Congress on May 19, making this the first appearance of a Mexican president in the Capitol in almost 10 years

Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it. In a

Financial regulatory reform uses multiple complex provisions to force banks to raise capital and lower risk. Today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered his

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding a meeting tomorrow with the relevant committee chairs to discuss the path forward for the chamber’s oil spill

Ever since Mike Isikoff went live with his apparent scoop that former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is going to be Barack Obama’s attorney general, a

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has launched a campaign targeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry,

After MTV announced it was declining to run any more ads from controversial anti-abortion rights group Heroic Media, the group went on the offense, claiming that the network was siding with Planned Parenthood. But an MTV exec tells The Florida Independent that such claims are “absolutely not true,” and that the network is still staunch in its decision to discontinue airing Heroic’s ads. # Texas-based Heroic Media has stirred up controversy across the country in recent months, with its “Planned Parenthood aborts African Americans” campaign

The Associated Press has done the dirty work of sorting through more than 5,000 challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount, and its analysis should

Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices.

Lindsay Beyerstein has the goods on Dede Scozzafava, the GOP’s luckless candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. In September, Scozzafava’s campaign

A campaign to discredit the Democratic stimulus package also pokes holes in Republican alternatives.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged questions from a reporter at today’s daily briefing on whether President Obama would push the Environmental

This can’t be helpful for General Motors’ efforts to build confidence among American consumers. General Motors Corp is recalling nearly 1.5 million Buick,