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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the congressman who shouted you lie during President Obama’s health care address to Congress, was probably the biggest hero at

Politico’s David Rogers has the story of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the powerful head of the House Appropriations defense subpanel, is in intensive care in

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag -- who was as involved as anyone with the drafting of the budget outline President Obama rolled out this

It looks like BP’s embattled CEO, Tony Hayward, will be stepping down. And he’ll probably be replaced by Robert Dudley, who would be the first American to take

They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families, said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum

On June 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began an intensified round of employer audits, notifying 1,000 businesses across the country that they

It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one of the GOP’s leading voices against liberal media bias -- he heads the Congressional Media Fairness Caucus and keynoted this

Republicans are having a good time today looking over the wreckage of what Democrats once hoped could be serious re-election challenges for Rep. Pete Sessions

Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech to the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council. He argued that the United States is on an

Last night, Congress passed -- and President Obama signed into law -- legislation that provides a short-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed. The

The senior Republican on the Banking Committee and senior senator from Alabama, who is blocking lauded economist Peter Diamond from joining the Federal Reserve

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI – “These folks are shameless!” thundered Sen. Barack Obama, after listing his Republican opponents’ distortions and economic plans.

Massey Energy, the coal giant that owns the West Virginia mine where 29 miners were killed in a blast April 5, might be racking up thousands of safety

The weekend before thanksgiving, Colorado Springs-based evangelical group Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage will host a Republican presidential candidate forum in Des Moines centered on social issues. Focus on the Family staffer Tom Minnery said the hosts of the event don’t plan to “get into theology as such” because there wouldn’t be enough time for the candidates to “solve theological questions.” Primary campaign frontrunner Mitt Romney, who is Mormon, has yet to commit to the event. In an appearance at CitizenLink, Focus on the Family’s political media outlet, Minnery hoped Romney would come around

In his first interview since being appointed to lead the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, Herschel Vinyard spoke with The Florida Current about some of Florida’s more controversial proposals, including a stricter set of water pollution standards and a plan that would privatize portions of some Florida state parks.