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This morning, the House Natural Resources Committee approved wide-ranging drilling reform legislation, which will likely be a major component of a broader House

A report issued last week by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured shows that Florida would suffer some of the deepest cuts in federal Medicaid spending under a plan proposed by Republicans in the U.S.

The Washington Post’s Juliet Elperin has the scoop that the federal official in charge of offshore drilling will soon be resigning: Chris Oynes, the top

ThinkProgress does a quick wrap of yesterday’s Code Red protest that leaves out some context. In the morning, there was also a vehicle driving around Capitol

The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) spoke today at the Center for American Progress indicating education policymakers cannot wait for socio-economic conditions to

Via CNN: House Democratic leaders were forced to put off until Friday a vote on the $789 billion economic stimulus bill after many rank-and-file Democrats who

Some new (and continuity-filled!) Pentagon appointments from the White House today: first, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy’s deputy will

Morning Money has posted a Goldman Sachs research report, and it seems the investment bank is spooked by just one thing in the financial regulatory reform bill:

Lynn Forester de Rothschild represents the rift in the Democratic party that divides major donors who support Sen. Hillary Clinton and those calling for unity behind the presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov.

New Orleans is a city that recognizes that day laborers did participate and did come to the rescue in terms of reconstruction, says Jacinta Gonzales of the Congress of Day Laborers.

At the Florida tea party debate on Monday, GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann criticized policies allowing undocumented

Add one more item to the already long list of alleged reasons for abortions: socialism. # The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property is a Pennsylvania-based group of about 120,000 “lay Catholic Americans concerned about the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christian civilization.” The group’s ginned up rhetoric has made its way to the Catholic community of Westchester, Miami — a community that is part of state Sen

Not the horse. Here’s the statement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, reacting to reports that

It wasn’t just Republicans leaders who were thrown a curveball today when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties to become a Democrat. Rep. Joe Sestak