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Democratic donors and operatives are wasting no time in meeting to hash out what went wrong in 2010 and what the strategy for fundraising should be moving

As local and national pro-immigrant groups held actions to demand Congress pass the DREAM Act, the U.S. House of Representatives delayed the vote on the legislative act until next week.

A U.S. Marine reservist and general has created a detailed report recommending that up to 400 of the 600 prisoners at the U.S.-run prison at the Bagram Air Base

The rhetoric on earmarks and pork barrel spending keeps paying dividends for conservative advocacy groups looking to undermine House Democrats in swing

John McCain, Palin aides assert, has no idea of the location of the Tlingit Indian reservation, nor any idea how, when or why the Eagle Dance is performed.

Senate aides, in a background briefing today, laid out a number of the provisions that will be included in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) energy

Gary Bauer, the religious conservative leader who was undersecretary of Education under President Reagan, and who now runs American Values, tells supporters in

Appearing on Fox News yesterday, Rep. Dave Camp (Mich.), senior Republican on the House Ways & Means Committee, reiterated an oft-mentioned, but also

It may be too soon to draw comparisons between the Vermilion 380 oil rig explosion and the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion. The Associated Press has a helpful

The Project on Government Oversight today sent a stark warning to Congress: Don’t let the commercials paid for by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

It’s eerie and uncomfortable and inappropriate that there isn’t much notice that six years ago today, the United States invaded Iraq. Maybe that’s natural now

<p>Here’s an interesting detail from The New Republic that helps explain why the Times went with the McCain story when it did. As

If the banks have to be regulated, they’re going to charge you more fees. And, if history is any guide, they’ll charge you those fees even if they aren’t.

File this in the things-you-knew-were-true-but-wanted-confirmed file: House Republicans want former Vice President Dick Cheney to stop snarling his way into the

The Federal Reserve on Thursday proposed a new program of monitoring executive compensation at the nation’s largest financial institutions, a move designed to

There was a lot of encouraging rhetoric for defense reformers from President Obama in his press conference tonight. Asked about the politics of cutting defense,

While West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) has made no public comments yet on who he will pick tomorrow as an interim replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd

This morning, members of the Federal Open Market Committee are meeting to discuss the country’s monetary policy. They are expected to release a report at 2:15

Yesterday’s New York Times focused attention on Florida’s other Senate candidate, Republican Marco Rubio. Tomorrow was supposed to be a high point for the