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No shocker here: People are mad at Washington. From The Washington Post: Two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied or downright angry about the way the

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was on Tuesday named chief of the Democratic National Committee . # Wasserman Schultz represents Florida’s 20th congressional district, which covers parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties and is member of the House Judiciary and Budget committees. # The Miami Herald reports : # An email from Vice President Joe Biden on Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ascension to DNC chief: # “Debbie has served the people of Florida – first in the Florida State Legislature, and more recently in Congress – for nearly two decades.

A community protest against the planned Corrections Corporation of America immigrant detention center (Pic courtesy Gail Tyree) With more than 100 residents demanding a stop to the construction of an immigration detention center next to the city of Pembroke Pines, commissioners on Wednesday night approved a motion to renegotiate its contract with the town of Southwest Ranches to supply water and sewage to the detention center. Pembroke Pines signed an agreement in June to supply fire and rescue services to the federally funded but privately run immigration detention center, set to be built on land owned by the Corrections Corporation of America but surrounded by Pembroke Pines and unincorporated Broward County.

President Obama’s Justice Department today, in a two-sentence filing, backed the Bush administration’s position on the 600 or more detainees being held at the

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who last month salvaged the Children’s Health Insurance Program in the Senate’s health reform bill, just issued a statement

At The Big Picture, they’re making the best of what promises to be a scary ride on Wall Street today. Here’s a bit of their advice: I assume that readers

We’ve added some new information to TWI’s ever-evolving Senate Public Option Scoreboard. In addition to every senator’s stance on the public option, the

Al Franken is certainly behaving as if it’s inevitable that he’ll eventually be seated as Minnesota’s junior senator. This morning the Democrat tapped

Anyone who thinks they’ll be able to repeal ObamaCare is kidding themselves, said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. If they want to stop it, they need to stop it now.

Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee on Friday introduced legislation aimed at addressing the on-going criminalization of persons living with HIV infection and Reps. Hansen Clarke and John Conyers of Detroit have signed on as co-sponsors of the bill.

Arguing the current standard for student assessment is a perversity that leads to a race to the middle, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) successfully introduced an

spon-sor, n. 1. one who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing. Forget policy for a second. Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on the

Some instances of government secrecy are genuinely malign, but most are frivolous. The cardinal example there is the intelligence budget. For reasons no one has

The full policy paper released on the heels of Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) speech today makes it clear: Republicans want a bipartisan commitment to no new taxes

The anti-abortion movement can claim a small victory in its crusade against Planned Parenthood. A recent Florida statewide survey of 807 likely voters in 2012 found a majority supports cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood. # The survey conducted by Viewpoint Florida found total support for cutting federal aid to the chain of reproductive health service providers is 54 percent, and opposition was 38 percent.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- aka the Mormon church -- is running a mega ad campaign in nine mid-sized and mostly non-coastal American

The Aid for Women abortion clinic in Kansas City, one of the three abortion clinics left in Kansas, has lost its license to operate in the state. All three clinics had to meet new regulations that were part of a bill aimed at shutting down abortion clinics, and so far Aid for Women did not. # The new law signed by the governor set standards for all clinics that includes “having an emergency door that can accommodate a gurney … maintaining proper emergency equipment, drugs and protocols, having proper lighting and ventilation, lavatory areas, and spaces for the sterilization of surgical equipment

It was a small, shotgun-style, wooden frame house in a modest neighborhood on Cleveland’s East Side. It was home to the Maynards, a family with six

From FreedomWorks’ pro-freedom positions to Senate hopefuls’ campaign platforms, national security and foreign policy ideas are strikingly absent.

ASPEN, Colo--It is true that in the rare instances when I actually look up from my laptop, where I spend most of time doing political research or working hard

While much of the mainstream media -- Charlie Savage at The New York Times and John MacKinnon at The Wall Street Journal, among others -- were reporting

The only question after seeing this headline is not: Should there be impeachment hearings? It’s: When do we start them? The actual scoop here is

It appears the evolution of Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer event began even earlier than recently reported in Time, and is part of a wider strategy by influential

Oil Spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg marked this week’s anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (the rig exploded on April 20, 2010) by highlighting the fund’s progress and defending the fact that the bulk of the claims paid by the fund have been so-called quick payments. # Since the final payment process began, the Gulf Coast Claims Facility has paid Floridians nearly $425 million in “quick payments,” in which individuals and businesses who have already received emergency payments can collect $5,000 and $25,000 respectively without documenting additional damages. # The fund has paid Floridians another $34 million in interim payments, which allow claimants to come back for more money every three months, and $55 million in final payments, which require them to waive their right to sue