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For much of the year, both Democrats and Republicans have tried to avoid looking like big spenders, disavowing earmarks and trying to outflank one another on

Not being on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s trip to the Middle East this week, I couldn’t ask him whether this is related to the expected request from Gen.

Reid Wilson reports that 82 House Republicans have donated to State Rep. Jim Tedisco’s campaign for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D) vacated seat in New York’s

I never met a spending freeze I didn’t like, said Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the chairman of the Republican conference.

The Charleston Daily Mail had a long sit-down interview with Don Blankenship, the head of Virginia-based Massey Energy, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine

A study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of California indicates that as the border between the United States and Mexico tightens and as immigration laws are more strictly enforced there could be dramatic changes in how American crops are harvested. The study, reported on in Western Farm Press, says that the cost of running a farm will increase and farmers will rely more and more on mechanization as a way to make do with fewer workers

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is trying to convince the White House that the only way to win congressional Republican support for closing the detention facility

Sen. John McCain claims to not know anything about FactCheck.org, the fact-checking Website run by University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy

During a March 2009 visit to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave an interview to

Federal strategies for tackling climate change are doomed to fail without concerted efforts to keep Americans out of their cars -- efforts that will necessarily include a greater emphasis on public transit, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

A four-year pending criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park, Kans., has been scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Oct. 24-27 to

The political animals that roam Mayor Richard Daley’s City Hall are pragmatic deal-makers above all else, including ideology. They would rather win you over than roll you over. Power politics is a bipartisan affair in the Windy City.

The presidential campaign of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann announced that Republican pollster Ed Goeas has left her campaign, the third high-profile resignation for the campaign in a month

Not even a third of the nation’s lowest-income children receive dental care, and Congress isn’t doing a thing about it.

Asked at the George Washington University forum about whether the Obama administration was effectively undermining the Iranian opposition by negotiating with

The Watertown Daily Times, the big paper in the sprawling 23rd district of New York, today endorses GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava for the special election.

Well that just about does it for climate legislation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells CongressDaily (subs. req’d) that he’ll vote against the climate bill

Leading up to yesterday’s defense authorization bill vote, it seemed unlikely that Republicans would allow the bill to go forward with the DREAM Act attached.

I’m still at the Center for a New American Security conference, listening to the North Korea panel, but apropros of this morning’s discussions about Afghanistan

President Obama will meet today with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, still under consideration for approval by the State Department, will almost certainly be a topic of conversation. The Keystone XL pipeline would carry highly polluting Canadian tar sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada all the way to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Environmental groups argue that the pipeline is unnecessary and a threat to ecosystems in the wake of the million gallon oil spill here in Michigan last July