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One week after Marin Cogan wrote a spot-on profile of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), the punchy freshman Democrat fulfilled her prediction that he would be the

New Mexico has added 100 government jobs since 2007, making it one of 22 states to have added rather than lost government jobs since the start of the economic crisis in 2007. The New Mexico Business Weekly reports on an On Numbers study of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing that while “New Mexico is one of the states that has added jobs… it is tied for the least amount of government job growth with Kentucky” since the start of the recession

Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-Del.) never liked the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill. Though it was strengthened through the legislative process, he still felt

NPR published a detailed investigative story yesterday on mining safety that finds safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have

Maryland House Del. Emmett C. Burns (D-Baltimore County) is moving forward with a strategy to defeat same-sex-marriage legislation that involves partnering with

When I was reporting Monday’s story on the lack of Republican worry about a Kennedy effect on health care, I asked CNN for the breakdowns on what ended up

Dave Roberts thinks so. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) unlikely support for comprehensive climate legislation represented the best hope for passage of a

A slight majority of Minnesotans support the effort to amend the Minnesota Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, according to the Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll . About 48 percent of Minnesotans support the amendment voters will judge on the November 2012 ballot, 43 percent are opposed to the ban and 8 percent are undecided. The poll shows that people under 34 overwhelmingly rejected the amendment, 58 to 33 percent, and Minnesotans over 65 overwhelmingly approved of the ban at 70 percent to 26 percent.

I don’t have any more yet, but the early speculation on the cable networks is that Iran’s very belated disclosure of its nuclear facility under construction

President Obama, just now: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and has become a tremendous recruiting tool for

Breaking news from Reuters: An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison on Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in

As the bill heads to conference committee, consumer advocates have identified loopholes and weak points where a merged bill could be watered down.

Here’s Sen. Charles Grasssley (R-Iowa) in June, telling Fox News that requiring people to buy health insurance is a good idea, analogous to states requiring

McCain says Obama’s not listening to his generals. Overexposure? Most Americans think they’re seeing about the right amount of Obama. Obama may defy

Ambassador Peter Galbraith, recently sacked from the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over his rejection of the mission’s stance on fraud in the Afghan

Protesters demonstrate against Arizona S.B. 1070 (Pic by ProgressOhio, via Flickr ) Former Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce — one of the most recognized architects of that state’s immigration enforcement law S.B

Here’s an interesting choice of analogy from Matt Mackowiak’s op-ed in The Austin American-Statesman, promoting the Tea Parties. The coming revolution is akin

Rep. Betty McCollum and Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar have given measured support for the United States’ military operations in Libya as a part of an international coalition of force in the region.

It’s on. The Texas congressman is milking Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) attack on his followers and policies for all it’s worth, telling members of his

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former President Bill Clinton said that Rep.

While students head back to class all around Texas, today marks the first day of school for a unique class of seminary students, all serving lengthy or life

PART TWO In one black-majority, affluent county outside Washington, foreclosures outpace the rest of the region. A long history of mistrust helps explain the problem.