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The Senate will hold a procedural vote tomorrow at 12:15 p.m. to limit debate on legislation extending unemployment benefits in all states, Sen. Richard Durbin

The biggest story out of this weekend’s Tea Party protests, unfortunately for its organizers, seems to be the Duval County, Florida Republican Party’s

The New York Times comes down hard today on the Bush Administration and the Treasury Department for failing to move forward with a plan to help modify the

Michele Bachmann has confirmed that she will speak at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC, in October. Bachmann has attended the summit, put together by the Family Research Council , an organization that is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for the past four years

Eli Lake at The Washington Times has the exclusive: President Obama’s choice to run the Justice Department has assured senior Republican senators that he won’t

The Ryan White program , named after a teenager who died of AIDS, is celebrating 21 years of existence while the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, one of its most important components, faces an ongoing funding crisis. # “ Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS at age 13

Strange as it sounds, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was a strong proponent of President Obama’s decision to reverse course and argue in court that

Even as some of Congress’ recently enacted credit card reforms go into effect today, a New York Times editorial reminds Washington that the banks are still

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President Obama will nominate Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as the next secretary of the Army, which will open up another House seat in New York, three short months

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report on job openings and labor turnover -- known as JOLTS. It showed that the number of available

From The Associated Press: Postmaster General John Potter says the massive deficits facing the post office could force the agency to cut out one day of mail

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- In unusually pointed remarks at a rally, Sen. Barack Obama ripped into Republicans for undermining the rule of law, blasted Gov.

Tancredo’s <a href= "http://iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1689/">out</a>.

Iowa’s jobless rate fell to 6 percent in September from 6.1 percent in August, but the number of working Iowans is down and so is the level of nonfarm employment. The state continues to do significantly better than the nation as a whole, which had an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent in September, said Teresa Wahlert, director of Iowa Workforce Development. Teresa Wahlert “However, we recognize that 100,000 Iowans are still unemployed and the department continually works to connect unemployed workers with current opportunities throughout the state,” she said.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) appeared this morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, where he remained coy about his decision to run for president in 2012 but stuck to

At the end of a slow holiday weekend, Matt Drudge linked to a video posted by YouTube member SocialistsSteal, labeled Senator Max Baucus Drunk/Intoxicated on

It’s Friday, which means the government is likely to announce the latest round of bank failures in the late afternoon. Calculated Risk expects commercial real

So the Democratic presidential candidates came to Cleveland and talked about Farrakhan instead of foreclosures.Not surprisingly, the locals are not happy.

Even the most progressive of cities deals with housing discrimination. After issuing a mandatory audit, authorities in Portland, Ore., discovered 32 instances

Because you just can’t make this stuff up: Tea Party darling and will-she-or-won’t-she presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann is pals with anti-gay crusader and hair-metal-music DJ talk show host Bradlee Dean.