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In the wake of Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) defection from the Republican Party, another prominent GOP moderate is expressing doubts that the party has a future

Remember when the Bush administration was opposed to tapping the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to help Detroit’s Big Three? Fugetaboutit. The Treasury

A great catch from The Wall Street Journal: , the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust

Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly getting closer to appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration. That’s

A few days ago, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) termed unemployment benefits -- a federal insurance system paid for by employers -- a necessary evil and said that tax

If all went as planned, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) jumped out of a plane on Saturday to show his support for the coal

This morning, the House Natural Resources Committee approved wide-ranging drilling reform legislation, which will likely be a major component of a broader House

A report issued last week by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured shows that Florida would suffer some of the deepest cuts in federal Medicaid spending under a plan proposed by Republicans in the U.S.

The Washington Post’s Juliet Elperin has the scoop that the federal official in charge of offshore drilling will soon be resigning: Chris Oynes, the top

ThinkProgress does a quick wrap of yesterday’s Code Red protest that leaves out some context. In the morning, there was also a vehicle driving around Capitol

The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) spoke today at the Center for American Progress indicating education policymakers cannot wait for socio-economic conditions to

Via CNN: House Democratic leaders were forced to put off until Friday a vote on the $789 billion economic stimulus bill after many rank-and-file Democrats who

Some new (and continuity-filled!) Pentagon appointments from the White House today: first, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy’s deputy will

Morning Money has posted a Goldman Sachs research report, and it seems the investment bank is spooked by just one thing in the financial regulatory reform bill:

Lynn Forester de Rothschild represents the rift in the Democratic party that divides major donors who support Sen. Hillary Clinton and those calling for unity behind the presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) Gov.