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United States firearms officials will likely make changes to their efforts to stop firearms from reaching Mexican drug cartels after criticism from a Justice

The 3.6 percent increase in Social Security benefits taking effect next year will have a big impact on Iowa’s seniors, say U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Cumming) and the head of AARP Iowa.

On Friday, the government will release the September jobs report, and some economists are bracing for the worst: a decrease in overall private employment and an

Via Liz Mair, a site opposed to the candidacy for Republican National Committee chair of former Michigan GOP chair Saul Anuzis has emerged, called

Obama administration officials are heading down to the Gulf tomorrow to oversee the ongoing recovery efforts there. The officials will stop in at the Delta

In June, the labor force -- the total number of people either working or looking for work -- was 153.74 million. The number of unemployed people was 14.62

Speaking of regional protectionism, Rep. Nick Rahall (D. - W. Va.) held a press conference today to unveil the news that the Environmental Protection Agency,

A poll earlier this year showed that 80 percent of Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Most people want corporate campaign

Protesters at a Wednesday Minnesotans for a Fair Economy rally outside Wells Fargo’s Minneapolis office donned huge puppet masks showing the faces of U.S.

A group of liberal House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would cap credit card rates at 18 percent. This should not to be confused with the push

The vote was 54 to 45 to set the bill aside, with seven Democrats (all men) voting to keep the bill alive, and two Republicans (both women) voting to table the

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is making some major ad buys, shoring up Democrats facing tight races in a number of states including

Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher is in Washington today through the weekend, having spent the morning at Grover Norquist’s Wednesday breakfast, taken a

It’s not just the filing deadline for unemployment benefits that’s set to arrive at the end of this month. Doctors treating Medicare patients are also scheduled

Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon (Pic via floridafga.org) Just months after opening up shop, a Naples-based “free market” public policy group that has so far declined to disclose the source of its funding has already made inroads with state government, and is gearing up to influence Florida’s 2012 legislative session. The Foundation for Government Accountability was incorporated as a nonprofit on June 27, 2011. According to the organization’s website , the group’s goal is to “develop and promote free market public policies that achieve limited, constitutional government and a robust economy that will be an engine for job creation across the state.” The IRS lists the Foundation as a “public charity with a 50 percent deductibility limitation.” The man behind this new right-leaning public policy advocacy group: Tarren Bragdon.

One of the biggest fears surrounding contentious new breast-cancer screening guidelines, which were unveiled last month by the U.S. Preventive Services Task

Patrick Murphy, one of two Democrats running to unseat tea party favorite Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, has reported that he raised $450,000 in the second quarter. # The other Democrat running against West, Emily’s List-endorsed Lois Frankel , has not disclosed how much she raised yet

Iraq war veterans in Iowa held their own version of the Winter Soldier investigation covered by The Washington Independent last week. Four Iraq veterans

What, you thought I stopped going after Mike O’Hanlon? He’s re-upped in the Washington Post today: There is real hope for major progress on most of these

The GOP candidate in the Massachusetts special election for Senate will be on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show tonight, according to David Bernstein of the Boston

It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s nomination of the widely respected human rights expert and dean of the Yale Law School, Harold Hongju Koh,

<div class="mini gray">Illustration by: Matt Mahurin</div> <p>The talk of South Florida is the possible changing of the guard in

Breaking news from The Associated Press: Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from healthcare