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Rep. Fred Upton published an op-ed piece in the Washington Times this week, arguing that the key to job creation is to eliminate federal environmental regulations. Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council responded to Upton, accusing him of distorting the study he cited

Newt Gingrich at the 2010 Value Voters Summit (ZumaPress)

Under a taxpayer-funded program free from congressional oversight, Treasury officials paid for bank assets at a flat rate, rather than adjusting for risk.

Adam Kokesh, a libertarian Marine Corps veteran who became a fairly prominent anti-Iraq War activist, is running for Congress as an independent in New Mexico’s

There is nowhere near enough money for Colorado to continue to do the business of the state as things stand, according to an influential team of researchers at the University of Denver . State lawmakers will either have to raise more money or cut away the kind of programs and services most Americans view as measures of the baseline quality of life achieved over centuries in the world’s wealthiest nation

GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her Christian husband are undergoing increased scrutiny after a weekend report by national gay rights advocacy group Truth Wins Out (TWO). The TWO report disclosed that the organization had sent employee John Becker into a counseling clinic owned by the Bachmanns.

When most people shell out for cable service, they expect to get some basic channels -- especially since, in most areas, cable companies operate with little or

Greg Sargent reports that the GOP may yet come up with a way to satisfy the Tea Party’s demands for representation among the Republican leadership. How? By

Josh Gerstein reports on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave today: Lawyers who accept professional responsibility to protect the rule of law and the

The new Quinnipiac Poll has Marco Rubio, the conservative Republican who’s ridden a wave of good press in his Senate campaign against Gov. Charlie Crist

Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, defended his organization’s “legislative manual” in an interview with National Public Radio on Wednesday. The manual asserted that gays and lesbians are more likely to practice sex with animals and children and that they enjoy eating human excrement .

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asks Secretary Gates about the speed of our force drawdown in Iraq and our force

So say White House and BP officials, who warned today that it might be July before they’re able to plug the leak that’s spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The

Chairman of a House Financial Services subcommittee is pushing a loophole-riddled bill that would allow payday lenders, who are his top campaign contributors, to charge annual interest rates of nearly 400 percent.

The House Natural Resources Committee dealt President Obama’s oil spill commission a high-profile rebuke today when it unanimously passed a Republican amendment

Fresh off a resounding loss on a ballot measure that would have severely restricted the collective bargaining rights of Ohio’s public employees, conservatives

The University of Florida campus (Pic by Random McRandomhead, via Flickr) The Environmental Protection Agency has designated the University of Florida’s Water Institute as a “Center of Excellence for Watershed Management,” the second such institution in the state. The designation comes with benefits, including EPA letters of support for additional grant opportunities, involvement in local and regional watershed issues, and EPA technical support.