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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday and was asked about her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, but deferred comment because her agency is tasked with making a decision on whether to approve the project.

As I noted in my story today, Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright has raised the ire of many conservative Jewish groups,

Daphne’s already blown the kazoo and hung the streamers for today’s release of the 2004 CIA inspector general report on the agency’s use of torture enhanced

The Hill reports today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) won’t scrap the special panel she created last year to tackle climate change. The select

Unemployment in the U.S. hit a new high mark in June, media reports said Friday , hitting 9.2 percent nationally and drawing scorn from several top Republicans who placed the blame on President Barack Obama and his administration.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After a lengthy exchange in which Kobie Flowers, an attorney for Omar Khadr, sought to establish that preparatory material used by FBI Special

The Obama administration is apparently going to release the 2005-era Office of Legal Counsel memoranda about what torture techniques the CIA could employ. Keep

Today, Edward Pinto, Fannie Mae’s chief credit officer from 1987 to 1989 and a prominent housing consultant, testified before the House Oversight Committee on

Alex Koppelman rolls up his sleeves and looks into the newest frontier for the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theorists -- a citizen grand jury that takes

There are plenty of House Democrats poised to vote against a $106 billion emergency spending proposal, most of which would go to fund the wars in Iraq and

A statement just released by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: The news that Iran has been secretly constructing

Update: Yes, the woman was a LaRouche cultist. The full video is here, and I’ve added her full comments. I’m getting a lot of links to this video today, in

Not much will stop the right from insisting that the Obama administration’s outreach to Syria is undone by the Syria insurgent pipeline to Iraq re-opening,

It’s going to be a nightmare for the government if they have to constantly close the hearing to talk about things that are embarrassing to the government, says David Frakt, former defense counsel for a juvenile held at Guantanamo Bay.

Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) denounced Arizona’s Senate bill 1070 during a press conference on Capitol Hill and urged Gov. Jan

It puts any housing recovery in jeopardy, says Barry Zigas of the Consumer Federation of America.

Most Americans are concerned that Afghanistan will become another Vietnam. The Pentagon is becoming more critical of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The Times runs

It seems that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), President Barack Obama’s pick to head the Commerce Department, doesn’t exactly believe in the necessity of that