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Minnesota’s Episcopalians voted this weekend to oppose a ballot question that would change the Minnesota Constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples.

The process of opting out of the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities has been shrouded in secrecy and contradictory statements -- most recently

The war cabinet convenes this afternoon for the first of a series of debates over Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy. Previews that don’t preview much can be

The Senate Finance Committee just voted down the second and last public option amendment expected to be offered during the panel’s markup of health reform

The process is young, but the loudest criticisms of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court have so far come from Republicans leaders wary that she’s

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural

Turns out, it’s a number of the country’s largest banks. In a report out today, several environmental groups rank nine of the biggest players on Wall Street

During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told Politico today that he remains undecided on who he will support in the race for the state’s open Senate seat, even as a new

To build out a theme from the previous post, it’s noteworthy how the National Security Strategy draws on conceptions of military power developed over the last

Is the sky falling? Are pigs flying? Apparently Wall Street executives have become sensitive to the fact that while people are losing their jobs and their

As we’ve written here before, Medicaid funding is a tricky business, not least of all because program enrollment always jumps in times of economic turmoil, when

This is the second in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents --- Who is Ray Odierno, anyway? It’s hard to say. Odierno, of course, is not

Cable TV news satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mocked Arizona Senator John Kyl Monday for the way he overstepped in making the case against Planned Parenthood on the floor of the Senate last week.

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Citizens for National Security, a Boca Raton-based nonprofit, will file a lawsuit against Gov. Rick Scott, the state and the Florida Department of Education tomorrow. According to the complaint (.pdf) released on the group’s website, the suit seeks temporary and permanent injunctive relief rescinding Senate Bill 2120, which requires two state or national experts to review textbook selections. # In its complaint, Citizens alleges that it is “not possible for two people to review all the textbooks in Florida within a four month period of time” and that S.B.

Democrats are ripping Sen. John McCain for misrepresenting his garage, after Newsweek reported that some of the McCain family’s 13 cars are foreign -- despite

West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant announced this afternoon that a special election to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D) seat will occur in

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is projected to keep her Senate seat, besting her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina, the Associated Press reports. That means

According to CNN’s Peter Hamby, that’s what the protester who just got ejected from the hearing room was yelling.

My former colleague Mike Lillis, now at The Hill, reports that Senate Democrats are attempting to win over Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan

The Obama administration released today a series of sustainability plans meant to meet the requirements laid out in a Oct. 2009 executive order that called

As closing arguments ended Wednesday in the Northern California District Court trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the state’s voter-approved