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Via Twitter, Markos Moulitsas leaks the results of the latest Research 2000/Daily Kos poll of the NY-23 special election. Since the last poll, Democratic

After months of negotiations over the summer between the House, the Senate and the Obama administration, the Senate has passed a bill to triple non-military aid

As the health care debate twists and turns through the Senate, the prospects for a public option remain murky. This scoreboard, updated daily, can serve as your

“Today’s action doesn’t solve this issue,” Marco Ciavolino, a staffer at the Terry Lakin Action Fund , told the Colorado Independent in response to news that President Obama released an image of his “long-form” birth certificate today.

We need to be buying more oil from Canada. That’s what Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) told a Canadian newspaper this weekend on a trip to the country to observe

Congressional Republicans need to “take Medicare off the table” and deal directly with the nation’s debt-ceiling, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Friday

Laura Rozen goes through the tea leaves: We solved the matter of the settlements with the Americans, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly

Previous reporting has all indicated to me that the big systemic failure in the Northwest Airlines Flight 253 near-attack concerned the standards for moving

As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking

Voters hoping to learn who’s contributing to their lawmakers this election season will shortly find a gaping hole: Due to antiquated rules requiring

Here’s a revealing moment on Fox News yesterday, after former President Bill Clinton met with Senate Democrats on health care and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)

After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam

The DISCLOSE Act is up for another vote in the Senate today, and while everyone understands that the chances of flipping a lone Republican to vote for the cause

Here are a few photos of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman campaigning Monday night. (Photos after the jump).

The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team