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The Miami-based Christian Family Coalition stated in a press release last week that Florida’s legislative session this year was “without a doubt … the very best statewide legislative session in the history of the Coalition.” # Florida’s state legislature passed five bills this year limiting access to abortions in the state, as well as bill’s aimed at making exclusively social conservatives happy .

At the Heritage Foundation, Manny Miranda floated the theory that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor could sink her own nomination by being overly firey and

Clearing the way for an Obamanik, Gordon England, the deputy secretary of defense since 2005, is on his way out. From the official Pentagon

With a cloture vote to open formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill scheduled for 5 p.m. this evening, Senate Democrats

China, where, as a matter of policy, the yuan is deliberately undervalued in order to keep Chinese exports cheap, is now attacking the U.S. for its weak

Hurricane McCain arrived in Florida today. To coincide with Sen. John McCain’s two-day visit, the Florida Democratic Party unveiled a new Website that features

The Senate passed an extension of unemployment benefits through November last night; now the House has just done the same. Next stop: President Obama’s

Just released from the Vice President’s office: “Jill and I join the President and Michelle in expressing our sympathies to the families of the brave

McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay was with the Marines in Gangjal, a village in southern Afghanistan, when they walked into a killing zone of relentless gunfire and

Following revelations of their involvement in the war on public unions in Wisconsin, the once-anonymous Koch Industries executive vice president David Koch and

In language that may or not have been cleverly chosen, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the newest member of the Democratic party, told reporters moments ago

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had strong words for Iowans on the state of education, but a stronger word of warning to the Legislature: keep politics out of education. U.S

At a hearing this morning with executives from five leading oil companies, House Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) lambasted the

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go

One thing unlikely to change as the result of President Obama’s review of Afghanistan strategy is the administration’s perspectives on Pakistan. As the Senate

Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed a handful of bills Friday, including a scaled-back set of income tax cuts and a rulemaking bill that clears up some discrepancies in last year’s House Bill 1565, which requires legislative approval for certain new regulations

Today’s hearing introduces us to a young SERE clinical psychologist named Jerald Ogrissig. A retired Air Force major, Ogrissig, who appears before the Senate