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“Mr. Secretary, I’m not a man that fears this administration or you,” Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.) told Geithner. “But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.”

Ohio voters went to the polls yesterday for the first day of early voting, exercising a right in Ohio that the state’s Republicans had fought hard to

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) asked why the Taliban won’t simply reconstitute itself in the parts of Afghanistan that Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s population-security

Never letting a good blunder go to waste, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), pounced on Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair’s botched Northwest Airlines

The Republican National Committee’s e-cards for Valentine’s Day -- a cute gimmick that the parties have been doing more of -- includes a reminder that, no

One watchdog says the strange giving patterns just shows the financial industry isn’t sure what’s happening to itself.

There’s no official count available on the current number of active immigration PACs, but according to TWI research, there are at least eight immigration PACs

Kate’s last post about Eric Holder brings up something that struck me kind of funny, as Bruce Springsteen would say. Notwithstanding Holder’s language about

Opponents of Rand Paul, the frontrunner in Kentucky’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate, are pretty effectively spinning his press release announcing the endorsement

Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, may think the interrogation of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab went haywire when the would-be bomber was

I asked Rob Ryan, a spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, if his campaign would ask the deceptive Common Sense for America ad to be

Moments ago, the Senate adjourned for a two-week-long spring recess. The last act of business was to schedule a cloture vote on a House-passed measure to extend

This can’t possibly be good: A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani

One side is playing election-year politics; the other is wrestling with urgent budget policies -- and the source of funding is starting to matter less than whether or not it arrives at all.

A bill seeking to exempt depictions of deaths from Florida’s public records laws is making its way through the legislature, and freedom-of-information advocates are warning that the repercussions of such a broad measure could be detrimental to the public’s ability to hold law enforcement and government agents accountable.

“Show us the maps.” Much like attendees at Florida’s first public redistricting hearings in Tallahassee, speakers at yesterday’s hearing in Jacksonville argued that lawmakers need to edit their redistricting timeline and release maps soon, so that the public can comment on specific redistricting proposals.

As Obama and Clinton near an announcement of a top State Department official to promote the United States’ image abroad, some wonder if the position will be viewed as a national security or public relations job.

Doug Hoffman, the insurgent Conservative Party candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District posts this picture of his Canastota, N.Y. office on

Let’s say you are in the market for a new car, and you head down to view the stock at your local auto dealer. You pick out your car and decide to go ahead with

Three days after being released to the public, the new book by U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Clute) has made it into the top five on Amazon.com for bestselling

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up