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The Wall Street Journal reports ahead of tomorrow’s U.S.-Pakistani foreign ministerial talks: Pakistan sent a 56-page document to the U.S. ahead of strategic

House Appropriations Chairman David Obey made it official at a press conference this afternoon: He will not run for re-election in November, choosing to retire

Monday was a good day for Adam Hasner. He lost his best-funded competitor in the GOP race to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson, and picked up endorsements from three conservative groups: # The Iowa-based American Future Fund PAC , a business-backed group that spent millions supporting GOP candidates in 2010, which singled out Hasner for his fiscal conservatism : Hasner served as a Florida State Representative for four consecutive terms from 2002 until 2010

The latest fringe right meme: President Obama tipped us off to, uh, something, by briefly bowing before the king of Saudi Arabia. Townhall.com has the video

Jonathan Martin has the scoop on how the joint National Republican Congressional Committee/National Republican Senatorial Committee dinner got ensnarled in the

The senior senator from Utah has put up a tribute song, written by him and sung by the great Phil Springer, at YouTube. The lyrics and video below the

We owe them more than prayers, Obama said of the miners who died in last week’s explosion. We owe them action.

And not just on health care reform. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), head of the Banking Committee, announced this morning that, after weeks of financial reform

Immigrants’ List, a federal PAC that backs candidates who support immigration rights, lists Rep.

One frightening opening sentence from The Washington Post: In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico,

For a better picture of the state of the Afghanistan election, I called Akbar Ayazi, the director of Radio Free Afghanistan, a project of the U.S.-funded Radio

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, wrote a blog post that lists the loopholes lobbyists most want inserted into Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.)

Predictably, abortion was one of the leading foes at this year’s sixth annual Values Voter Summit, with presidential candidates and religious leaders receiving

Obama administration officials will tour a Michigan state prison today in the hopes of using it to hold suspected terrorists now imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay,

Yesterday, Senate Democrats cleared the 60-vote cloture hurdle to restoring federally extended unemployment benefits for 2.6 million American families. The bill

Democrats might not reach 60 votes today in a cloture vote on the DISCLOSE Act, but they’re getting awfully close. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) spokesman just

A study released Tuesday by the University of Colorado Denver indicates that the legalization of medical marijuana reduces alcohol consumption and, as a result, alcohol-related traffic deaths without a corresponding increase in deaths caused by stoned drivers. The study, hailed as “groundbreaking” by the University, is the first to examine the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on the prevalence of traffic fatalities

This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin’s decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention -- while (so far) eschewing the much higher-profile

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines (Pic via Facebook) In an op-ed, Florida congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz writes that the GOP is hoping the economy will fail, giving the GOP an edge against President Obama in the upcoming national election

As the Republican-controlled Iowa House aims to debate their omnibus budget bill Wednesday to bring an end to the Legislative session, Democrats in control of the other chamber will continue their series of budget hearings, Senate Appropriations Chair Bob Dvorsky (D-Coralville) said. “We hope sunshine, openness, and transparency will build momentum for a budget compromise that protects the top priorities of Iowa families,” Dvorsky said Monday.

With this week’s delay on the energy and oil spill bill, lawmakers are renewing their push to include a renewable energy mandate in the legislation. Politico

Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has invited Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to testify on his