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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is trying to come with a new system that would make it harder for illegal immigrants to fake legal working status,

In the wake of the arrest of two Americans , U.S.

An Indiana election law expert said Texas lawmakers do have reasons to be concerned that proposed voter photo identification legislation -- authored by state

Just days before a United Nations vote to determine the Palestinian right to statehood, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted

The Tea Party Express, feeling their oats after propelling Joe Miller to a (likely) victory over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) in Alaska, is now preparing to raise

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

New tallies released by Pueblo County Clerk Bo Ortiz on Thursday put the percentage of “inactive voters” who returned ballots this year at 1,791 or nearly 11 percent of county voters. That’s a gain of nearly 5 percentage points from 2009 and well above the previous statewide 3 percent average. “A press release issued October 31 by this office contained a mistake in the reporting of the Inactive Failed to Vote tabulations,” Ortiz wrote in a release.

I’m a little late, but the Republican Governors Association (RGA) was the beneficiary of some big time contributions the other month -- one from News Corp., the

The Center for Responsive Politics revealed Thursday that corporate campaign spending has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. the Federal

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today defended Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s restriction of military recruiters’ access at Harvard Law School

After killing health care reform in 1993, the health insurance lobby made the PR-savvy decision not to come out in staunch opposition to the Democrats’ plans

DES MOINES — As the Ames Straw Poll hovers on the proverbial horizon and the eyes of the nation turn to Iowa, members of the religious right want to make sure their voices are the loudest come Saturday. The “ Values Voter Bus Tour ,” a coalition comprised of state and national religious conservative organizations, including National Organization for Marriage and The Family Leader , will hit 22 Iowa cities before the Ames Straw Poll, advancing their agenda that entails support of traditional marriage and anti-abortion initiatives. Many within the group also spoke out adamantly Tuesday about state supreme courts overstepping constitutional bounds.

In an ongoing project to shine more light on pregnancy centers that counsel women out of having abortions -– commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers,”

There was no reason to pay off these parties at 100 cents on the dollar, said Bill Black, a leading critic of the government’s bailout managers.