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Eric Holder has taken heat from the right, but the attorney general hopeful may face tough questions from the left during confirmation hearings on Thursday.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she has to live ... every day with her vote for the Iraq war, which was based on the dead wrong National Intelligence

It’s no secret that the oil and natural gas industry has always had a huge influence in Washington. But given this summer’s massive oil spill and the prospect

As the economy continues to sink, the Wall Street Journal today documents an increasingly obvious fact: Most of the big banks that got a total of $148 billion

Next week, Congress is back in session, and financial regulation will occupy much of the legislative calendar in and mental capacity of Washington for the next

Discontented voters who swept an historic Republican majority into the House last November are ready to sweep out that majority just as dramatically, according to a survey released Tuesday (pdf) by Public Policy Polling. The Republicans, who have been pushing deep spending cuts and controversial anti-abortion and anti-gay rights policies since January, have apparently alienated the independent swing voters who put them in power. “The conventional wisdom is that Democrats will have a very hard time winning back control of the House next year,” said PPP President Dean Debnam in a release that accompanied the survey results.

Eric Holder might have surprised a few people with this answer to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) question of whether the nation is at war: I don’t think

A big cross-section of the American Jewish community’s leadership met with President Obama today at the White House, from J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami on the left

As President Obama talks about building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it raises the inevitable question about what he’s going to do with the 600 prisoners

Anthony Cordesman, a longtime defense wonk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has been around long enough to see effort after effort of

LANSING — The Michigan Department of Community Health issued a letter to local health departments Friday which “strongly encourages” those public bodies to cease using Client Acknowledgment forms that are legally inaccurate. The documents are used ostensibly to inform newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons of their legal responsibility under Michigan law to inform sexual partners of their status or face possible felony charges

The New York Times has a good round-up of opinions today on the impact of Pentagon official Susan Crawford’s admission yesterday that Mohammad al-Qahtani was

Liberals cried betrayal when House Democrats altered how underwater homeowners can seek help in bankruptcy court, but a quiet movement in the Senate could mean much higher hurdles for mortgage holders.

Though they have accepted billions in federal bailout funds, banks are not required to ensure foreclosures don’t drag down surrounding communities.

Afghanistan’s defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, can return home from this week’s U.S-Afghan-Pakistani meetings in Washington with full swagger. His

With an eye on reclaiming a U.S.

Add Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) to the roster of Republicans hedging a bit on whether the party can repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Petri

You’d think that, granted the bully pulpit, the Obama administration’s secretary of transportation might actually use it when approached by Congress for advice

Following up on my earlier post about whether the Obama Justice Department really ought to be representing John Yoo -- the notorious former Office of Legal

When he was confronted by Mike Stark, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) gave perhaps the clearest statement of any Republican member of Congress on the persistent

Flint could become the first city to get taken over by the state since Gov.

You knew it was coming. Marcy Wheeler and Greg Sargent report that Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, will open