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The Ways and Means subcommittee on income security will meet next Thursday to examine how Congress might better address the problem of long-term unemployment,

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Florida Gov. Rick Soctt said on Fox and Friends today that ”you cannot win the presidency if you don’t win in Florida.” Scott said Ronald Reagan and George Bush won the Florida straw poll and went on to win the nomination and the presidency

El Paso and parts of the Rio Grande Valley have some of the nation’s highest numbers of children living in foster care because their parents were removed by

At our affiliate, The Michigan Messenger, Eartha Jane Melzer today adds another layer to the tale of growing protest by some large investors in Massey Energy

Aleshia Napier was 18 years old in 2006 when she hung herself with a bed sheet at the Broward Correctional Institution in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after being

If passed, Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill’s (D-Mo.) $600 million, fully-paid-for border security bill would increase the number of unmanned

Some days they make laws, and some days they break them. Five House Democrats were arrested Monday during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington.

Charleston, W.Va. -- In my piece today, I quoted the wife of a worker at a Massey Energy coal mine who said the company denied her husband’s request to take

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin‘s PAC rolled out a new web video Wednesday and announced the Palin tour bus would once again roll on – this time into

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has lost his re-election bid tonight to Republican opponent Morgan Griffith, the Associated Press says. Though Boucher had an early

Public Policy Polling releases a fascinating survey of the Virginia electorate, one that gives former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), defeated in a razor-thin 2006

Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter will hold a Government in the Grocery constituent meet-up this evening from 5-7 at the Safeway at 38th and Wadsworth in Wheat Ridge. The address is 3900 Wadsworth. The meeting, where Perlmutter typically sits at a folding table and talks to whomever shows up, is free and open to the public

Democrats have been cheering the recent AARP endorsement of health reform legislation, with good reason. The group represents roughly 40 million Americans,

Doug Feith started off today’s House judiciary torture hearing by insisting that Philippe Sands misquoted him in the book "Torture Team." Feith said

Lillis forwarded me this with the subject line Things Are Out of Control: A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of

The Senate this afternoon confirmed Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by a vote of 59 - 39, despite Republican efforts to filibuster

Floyd Brown, the man behind the 1988 Willie Horton ad (and now a conservative activist who’s on the board of the American Conservative Union) unleashes probably

Several hundred protesters flooded the Minnesota Capitol outside the House chambers on Monday morning to urge members to forgo a vote on a proposed amendment to the Minnesota Constitution that would bar same-sex marriage. As the protesters demonstrated, House members of the Rules Committee moved to put the issue on the agenda for Wednesday morning.