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Voters hoping to learn who’s contributing to their lawmakers this election season will shortly find a gaping hole: Due to antiquated rules requiring

Here’s a revealing moment on Fox News yesterday, after former President Bill Clinton met with Senate Democrats on health care and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)

After a British court ruled that the U.K. government has to disclose sensitive information about how the United States tortured a British citizen named Binyam

The DISCLOSE Act is up for another vote in the Senate today, and while everyone understands that the chances of flipping a lone Republican to vote for the cause

Here are a few photos of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman campaigning Monday night. (Photos after the jump).

The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team

The massive oil spill last summer that contaminated dozens of miles of the Kalamazoo river with crude oil, has resulted in U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St.

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial unemployment insurance claims declined to 457,000, from 468,000 last week. The moving average

Former Sen. Norm Coleman, chair of a non-profit group that pumped at least $18 million towards conservative candidates or issues in the last election cycle, is joining Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination as a special advisor, Romney’s campaign said Wednesday. “His advice will be critical as I lay out my vision for improving our economy at home and strengthening our partnerships around the world,” a statement on Romney’s campaign website read

The Senate Finance Committee this morning shot down an amendment, offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), that would have explicitly prohibited federal funds from

On Friday, Amazon discontinued its affiliation with websites in Connecticut and Arkansas in retaliation to new legislation in both states that attempts to

The anti-czar frenzy has faded a bit, despite two Senate hearings on the extremely flimsy controversy. Today, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) wades back in and makes a

Teenagers who live in politically conservative parts of the country are more depressed and suicidal than teens who live in politically progressive parts of the country, according to a study by Columbia University psychologist Mark Hatzenbuehler published this week.

More than seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state law criminalizing homosexual conduct, the unconstitutional provision remains on the

Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous socialist resolution,

Greg Sargent reported yesterday that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) wrote to Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, after The Washington Post

URBANDALE — Former U.S. Sen.

The federal immigration program that allows local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws is becoming a thorn in the side of the Obama

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