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Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-funded political group, announced on Tuesday that it has formed a chapter in Minnesota.

The implementation of a statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program didn’t come easily: Gov. Rick Scott opposed legislation requiring the creation of a drug-monitoring database, then later backtracked, lending his support. Funding for the database was also a sticking point.

If they weren’t already busy enough with an anti-Charles Rangel resolution, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) is hoping fellow Republicans will back his resolution

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has faced criticism from both GOP presidential primary opponents and activist groups for support for in-state tuition for undocumented

Here’s the statement from Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Banking Committee, supporting the Obama administration’s proposal to apply a tax on the

Minnesota should consider making English its official language, Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) said Tuesday, in the latest of a spate of moves that appear to be

The heated Republican presidential debate in Iowa last night saw plenty of barbs between would-be GOP candidates, but, as our sister site The Iowa Independent points out , the candidates took jabs not only at one another, but at the debate moderators, as well. # One notable theme of the evening was the candidates’ attempts to out-perform one another when the conversation turned to abortion issues. # From The Iowa Independent’s coverage of the debate: # Poised and never appearing flustered, Bachmann deflected attack after attack fired by Pawlenty, including her compromise on raising Minnesota’s state tax on cigarettes in 2005

I am a pro-life conservative, said Carly Fiorina. I believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. I am a fiscal conservative. In other words, I share the conservative values that many Republican voters share, and have been public about that for a very long time.

Following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Minnesota Democrats are proposing a constitutional amendment to define an individual as a “natural person.” The 2010 ruling gave corporations certain rights as “persons” and allowed them to engage in new levels of political activity. Sen

State Rep. Scott Plakon, R-Longwood, is not the only House member who vocally supports Florida’s controversial taxpayer-funded crisis pregnancy center network. State Rep. Rachel Burgin , R-Riverview, serves as an “advocate” for the Pregnancy Care Center of Plant City, which receives state dollars

DES MOINES — The west steps of the state Capitol saw around 400 conservative activists Tuesday, mostly dressed in red, criticizing gay rights supporters and calling on the Iowa Senate to pass HJR 6 , which would set the stage for Iowans to vote on a constitutional ban of same-sex marriages.

Texas Republicans are trying to repeal a two-year-old law that allows transgendered people to to marry with a court-approved proof of sex change, as the

Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to

Mint has an amazing graphic of bank failures during the recession. The big early failures include IndyMac and Lehman Brothers. Then dozens of smaller banks fall

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson announced today a series of international priorities for the agency, including working across

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), suffering from brain cancer, will step down from the powerful Judiciary Committee when Congress returns to Washington in January,

Friends of the Earth, which released a series of emails between the State Department and TransCanada lobbyist Paul Elliott last week, is now asking the Department of Justice to investigate possible legal violations based on those communications. In a letter to the DOJ, the group says: On behalf of Friends of the Earth, I am submitting the following information to demonstrate that, Paul Elliott, a government relations employee of TransCanada, has acted as agent of a foreign principal and therefore violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The fervor drawn from the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began about two weeks ago in New York City, has elicited plans for spin-off protests in Texas and