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Even if he ultimately opposes health reform legislation, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) says he would probably vote to bring the bill to the floor, reports The

The conference committee to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the financial regulatory reform bill is just minutes away from starting. Those who want

President Obama has taken a good deal of heat from the business community and other special interest groups for his strict ban on lobbyists attending

Enough with DADT already: Duncan Hunter wants to open a hermaphrodites-in-the-military debate. Obama’s jab at Vegas is too much for Ensign and Reid. One

As Sen. Barack Obama has learned in recent days, it’s easy to slip up when taking on economic issues in a political campaign. From Walter F. Mondale

No one likes to lose. But losing represents a chance to start again, to build something out of lessons learned and mistakes made. It provides the opportunity for new people to begin to mold the Republican Party in ways that senior leadership had resisted.

Here are more photos (see round one here) from the Code Red rally against health care reform that shook the upper Senate Park this afternoon.

Following news that world leaders had reached a climate deal, President Obama just held a press conference in Copenhagen, calling the agreement an important

Not Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) if he can help it. As Mike flagged yesterday, Waxman, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,

We wrote recently that Democrats could have a tough time passing their big-ticket priorities next year because some freshman members -- many of whom represent

Now, the Democrats’ big dog: Jim Webb, the streetfighting Marine from Virginia. He started out by casually remarking that his son was in Anbar in 2006 for the

The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are

Stacy McCain reports on a new Zogby poll that, according to John Zogby, puts the president’s approval rating at about 50-50. This has got to scare Democrats

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he would put in place a plan to expand the time that soldiers spend at home between deployments. By 2011,

While costly, the ship was the linchpin in the sea service’s advanced strategy to patrol and fight in the most dangerous shallow sea lanes, known as littorals. Think Iraq’s national waters, where the country’s two oil terminals are located. But the Navy suddenly killed the weapon program. The explanation has pleased no one -- especially Congress.

The two leading House Democrats on environmental policy are expected to unveil a major energy and climate bill today with more ambitious goals than recent

This might qualify as evidence that there is a God, and he (or she) has a sense of humor. From The New York Post’s Page Six: lthough we didn’t think it

Yesterday I reported on a 501c4’s attack ad targeting Democratic members of Congress over warrantless surveillance. But here’s something strange: the ad is very