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Last week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) kicked off his campaign in defense of a law that strips collective bargaining rights of unionized public employees, and the

Something else to keep an eye on in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s defense authorization mark-up: via Satyam Khanna, Steve Vladeck finds the remnant of a

During a Monday night interview with Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul was asked about the enthusiasm of his core supporters and what he would do to broaden his base.

U.S. and Yemeni officials have reached an impasse in their attempts to negotiate the return of Yemeni prisoners currently held at the U.S. detention facility at

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag kept up the pressure on Senate Republicans over the weekend by continuing to raise the possibility that

Though a 2012 referendum to reverse Maine’s 2009 same-sex-marriage repeal is not yet official, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has already

No doubt, mine-safety officials will be scratching their heads as to how the Dotiki Mine in Western Kentucky could have collapsed in the same month that

Prime Prep Academy’s most famous backer was there in person when the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve its charter application in September, and

At a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday (which I haven’t seen, but read accounts of), the Atlanta parents of 9-year-old Hannah Poling revealed that in

Here’s a textbook case for the DISCLOSE Act that’s up tomorrow for a vote. It centers on Americans for Job Security, a pro-business issue advocacy group, that

First they delayed the reforms; now they’re trying to expedite them. The House approved legislation today to have its previously passed credit card reforms

Speaking to the point in my last post, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked Blair if his point to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) about withholding some interrogation

URBANDALE — GOP presidential candidate and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty defended his nice guy demeanor while pledging to repeal “Obamacare in its entirety” and have the U.S

The Republican National Committee invited reporters to listen via conference call to new Chairman Michael Steele’s pep talk to House Republicans at their

Markos Moulitsas leaks (on Twitter) the results of the latest Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll, which has Marco Rubio surging against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) in

Alexander Bolton has an important story in the The Hill about conservative division -- polite so far -- over whether the party’s stalwart Senate minority should

A loss in Massachusetts has damaged the prospects for comprehensive health reform legislation and left Democrats wondering how to galvanize the electorate.

Give this to Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.): He wasn’t lying when he said he wasn’t a good fit in President Obama’s cabinet. Gregg, of course, withdrew his

With Republican National Committee officials from all fifty states filing into their annual summer meeting today in Kansas City, GOP pollster Whit Ayres has

The explosive inspectors general report released on Friday makes one thing increasingly clear: the Bush White House knew that it was probably breaking the

Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) -- his opponent in the 2010 GOP

The administration’s push to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire faces opposition from Republicans in Congress -- and some Democrats.

Mike Madden reports that Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist last seen handing out beer and chicken wings at a press conference on Sonia Sotomayor,