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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) press conference at the Capitol this morning is churning dramatic headlines about how health reform is dead. But she

Back in October I reported on some of the Tea Party groups’ annoyance with Our Country Deserves Better and its Tea Party Express project, a flashy effort that

The Senate version of a bill to expand the powers of state-appointed emergency financial managers contains a controversial provision banning local officials from running for office. A Senate Fiscal Agency analysis of the package as passed by the Senate Education Committee finds that it would: Provide that an elected chief administrative officer or governing body member in office at the time of receivership would be ineligible to run for office in that local government for six years

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told our own Dave Weigel that those in the Pentagon who do answer to the commander in chief and have to answer for his

Maybe there’s too much caffeine coursing through the Obama campaign’s new media department. Or maybe they’ve just had it with Sen. John McCain’s robocalls

The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) did not conduct an erasure analysis of the state’s standardized test scores for the 2009-2010 academic year due

The Florida Senate may vote today on an elections bill that national groups are saying will make it harder for young people to participate in the political process. # This was sent out yesterday: # WASHINGTON D.C. – The right to vote is under attack in Florida, and so are the rights of voter registrations organizations focused on engaging young voters, including Rock the Vote, Southern Energy Network, HeadCount, Student PIRGs and other groups who work to expand the electorate.

The Los Angeles Times has the last of its series on things Republicans are saying about Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, whose confirmation hearing kicks

“The capacity to find a facility is not tied to school performance,” says one New Orleans school principal. “I understand that, but I really wish there was a clearer path.”

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) The Obama administration has approved BP’s first plan to drill for oil in the gulf since last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster, which left 11 dead and damaged the gulf ecosystem and the economies of the states that border it.

A coalition of environmentalists and labor unions is launching today a cross-country bus tour to pressure lawmakers to pass comprehensive climate and energy

There could be a standoff between the U.S. House and Senate during the next vote on the government’s funding plan for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 when it

Following up on Spencer’s earlier post about President Obama’s meeting today with numerous members of his national security team, the White House released this

Libertarian Eric Sundwall, who collected twice as many signatures as he needed to make the ballot in the NY-20 special election, might be bounced out of the

Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal looks at President Obama’s efforts to reform defense contracting and is less than impressed: hat goes unanswered is who is

In the wake of his announcement today he is running for President , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has also established a website to inform and encourage attendance of Iowa’s August straw poll, campaign officials said this afternoon

More on U.S. efforts to aid Pakistanis displaced by the current military efforts against the Taliban. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced this

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) wants to know if Blair agrees with harmonizing CIA interrogations with the Geneva-complaint Army Field Manual on interrogations. He

I don’t know how seriously to take Republican candidate Jim Tedisco’s ballot challenges in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election when his

In the latest incident of Tea Party infighting, a rally in Orlando saw Tea Partiers alleging that the Florida Tea Party would hurt its election chances.

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Navy Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the military command running the detention facility here, told reporters that Omar Khadr is being