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State Rep. Trudi Williams, R-Fort Myers (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov) GOP state lawmakers will soon introduce a bill to eliminate regulations on the reclaimed water often used by Florida utilities — treating it as an alternative water supply owned by utilities, and not by the state. The chair of the House Select Committee on Water Policy, state Rep.

Even after McCain broke off his relationship with Charles Keating, his wife maintained a partnership with the disgraced financier in a real-estate development that netted her tax benefits and a profit.

This idea that voter discontent has left all incumbents vulnerable in November is a reporter’s dream. It’s clean. It’s easy. But is that really what happened

Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s

The British government has initiated a criminal inquiry of the potential responsibility of CIA and British intelligence officials for detainee interrogation

Following up on Dave’s post, Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), the Republican point-man on Senate health reform legislation this year, says he’s still interested in

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist continues to walk an increasingly fine line in his Senate bid as an independent, making a few statements this weekend on CNN’s State

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER REVIEW

Liberals have bashed Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in recent days for blocking legislation to extend the filing deadline for unemployment benefits, the cost of

Vice President Biden will probably have the last laugh now that Gen. Stanley McChrystal is returning to Washington to learn his fate as commanding general in

One of the more curious aspects of the months-long debate over health care reform has been the inattention that the media has given the Children’s Health

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Ken Buck, Colorado’s GOP senate candidate and Tea Party favorite, is taking the high road -- sort of. The Denver Post’s blog reported yesterday that Buck has

For all the criticism faced by Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater -- since renamed Xe -- no one’s ever called him a killer. But

In our story Monday about the government’s rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we raised the question of why, once again, no conditions were required

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on May 21, 2009. Bouncing around the InterWeb,

Well, not explicitly, of course. But that Senate Armed Services Committee report blaming Donald Rumsfeld for the torture of detainees in Defense Dept. custody?

Republican Governors Association chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour spoke Friday to The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg at the Washington Ideas Forum —

Late Thursday afternoon U.S. Bruce Braley (D-IA) said that all U.S.