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Michele Bachmann’s weekend trip to the Golden State to gather support and funds for her presidential bid drew protests and sharp questions from Tonight Show host Jay Leno over her stances and statements on rights for LGBT people. At a campaign rally in Costa Mesa , Bachmann was asked by a rally-attendee what she plans to do about bullying in her district. The Anoka-Hennepin School District is largely within the district represented by Bachmann and has seen many high-profile events surrounding the bullying of LGBT students

Liberals on Capitol Hill might still be pushing for a public insurance option as part of this year’s health reform strategy, but investors aren’t banking that

The first GOP presidential primary debate is behind us.

A screenshot from the new video. The presidential campaign of U.S. Rep.

The House Republican leadership says it will delay approving the creation of a statewide health insurance exchange, in part to await the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the health care reform law which mandates the creation of the exchanges. Rep

The Connecticut independent’s support for the Iraq war and his tireless campaigning for McCain made a lot of enemies in his former party. But when Democrats are close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, bygones will be bygones.

The Pentagon just announced one of the brigades it plans to send to Afghanistan next year. The 82nd Combat Airborne Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division out of

A bill that proposes a ban on gay marriage on the 2012 ballot passed the Senate Rules Committee on Friday morning and will now head to the Senate floor for a full vote.

Republican House candidates, especially challengers seeking to portray themselves as outsiders to Washington politics, are almost universally running on a

A new NBC poll indicates that an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the Obama administration’s decision not to release the photos of Osama bin

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) just released a formal announcement confirming our report Monday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee would hear testimony on

That in-state tuition law that sailed through the Texas Legislature and across the governor’s desk 10 years ago continues haunting Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in strange new ways, most recently with a hardline anti-illegal immigration group protesting outside a Perry fundraiser, and new complaints about social media censorship from the governor’s supporters.

Today’s Congressional hearing on migrant labor in agriculture wasn’t just about Stephen Colbert. There was also a pretty serious debate over what type of reform

This situation is, as Matthew Yglesias says, pretty ridiculous. President Barack Obama’s economic advisers are increasingly concerned about the U.S.

The New York Times editorializes today about the failure of the DISCLOSE Act, chastising Republicans for seeking the right to poison the political atmosphere

A new poll from EPIC-MRA has found that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, holds a slight lead over President Barack Obama in the state in next year’s presidential election

According to a recent report by NewsOne, an African-American news organization, a set of anti-abortion Oakland billboard will remain up, despite stirring controversy.

With just 10 days to go before the deadline for the supercommittee to make a deal, news outlets are reporting more reasons to worry that the talks will fall

Due to some last minute GOP disagreements and disappointments that culminated in a chaotic legislative overtime , the Florida Senate did not pass all the bills on the calendar for the last day of this legislative session. Among the bills that slipped through the cracks: an abortion-restricting bill sponsored by Sen.

PG&E -- the owner of the natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno, Calif., last week, killing at least four people and destroying dozens of homes --