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The Florida Democratic Party is demanding that Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, resign from his role as vice chair for finance with the National Republican Congressional Committee. In a statement released Wednesday, the party says Buchanan should step aside in light of a recent court decision prompted by a Federal Election Commission lawsuit

Former Massachusetts Gov.

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness, told The Chronicle of Higher

According to a lawyer with the respected British human rights group Reprieve, abuse of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp has actually gotten worse

The bleak housing numbers are raising troubling questions about whether lenders and servicers are genuinely willing and able to do loan modifications on a large scale.

Several reports out today detail the bacterial infection behind a string of dolphin deaths that have occurred since last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

I didn’t pay too much attention yesterday to the conservatives who tweeted or blogged untoward things about the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. It would have been

Sen. Barack Obama has a strategic model in Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign: ’It’s the Economy, Stupid!’

Today, Kate Sheppard reports at Mother Jones, Kevin Costner -- actor of Dances with Wolves fame, favored heartthrob of my mum -- took to the Hill to argue for

Carly Fiorina’s campaign for U.S. Senate has been trying to make a pretty strong factual argument against challengers Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore -- namely,

In an effort to further outpace campaign finance disclosure rules, supporters of presidential candidate Rick Perry have formed a group which, under IRS rules,

Colorado U.S. Representative Diana DeGette on Thursday sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Cliff Stearns urging him to invite Brian Harrison, president and CEO of Solyndra, to testify before an investigative subcommittee of which she is a ranking member.

A conference call with senior administration officials previewed the major themes in tonight’s presidential announcement of a refined Afghanistan-Pakistan

Experts say long-term unemployment is dangerous because it can have a snowball effect.

The Republican Study Committee just blasted out a release attacking the Democrats’ health care reforms for forcing Boeing, among other large corporations, to

Max Blumenthal analyzes the post-Senate record of the potential dark horse 2012 Republican presidential hopeful, noting (accurately) that Santorum’s sinecure at

Among other things in the Homeland Security appropriations bill President Obama signed into law yesterday is a provision that authorizes the Defense Department

In a recent radio interview, Mississippi Lt. Gov. (and gubernatorial candidate) Phil Bryant said that he wholeheartedly supports the fetal personhood movement

A Boulder-based conservation group is pushing for much stronger language in a draft rule by the state of Colorado requiring oil and gas companies to disclose chemicals used in the controversial drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Western Resource Advocates (WRA) officials said on Wednesday that the new rule contains “a significant loophole” that would allow companies to withhold information by claiming an exemption for chemicals they consider trade secrets. A natural gas rig at the entrance to Battlement Mesa in Garfield County on Colorado’s Western Slope (David O.

When the question arises of whether Texas’ imminent voter ID law will pass U.S. Department of Justice muster, GOP lawmakers routinely point to the existing law

Clovis High School may end all non-curricular clubs rather than allow a gay-straight alliance to form at the eastern New Mexico high school, the American Civil Liberties Union in New Mexico claims. The school superintendent told the Albuquerque Journal that a vote Tuesday night on whether to disband all non-curricular clubs is unrelated to an attempt to form a gay-straight alliance at the school.

Local government officials are asking the governor not to sign a new bill that blocks communities from restricting the areas where mines can be placed. The bill, which cleared the Legislature in just two weeks at the end of the session, amends the Michigan Zoning Act to block zoning ordinances that prevent the extraction of natural resources if someone could make a profit by extracting them unless “very serious consequences” would result. The measure would overturn a 2010 Michigan Supreme Court decision that held that Leelanau County’s Kasson township may restrict gravel mining through zoning

In 2008, Oklahoma passed HB 1804 (RTF), a law attacking residence and employment of undocumented immigrants in the state. One provision specifically repealed an