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While the Florida Department of Health declines to answer questions about oversight of state-funded anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law last week a bill to require similar centers there to disclose information about their practices to patients .

A new study by the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University finds that the U.S Immigration and Customs

Congress looks at inefficiencies in international aid program that is a boon to U.S. growers.

A few more points worth noting about the new Military Commissions Act amendments passed by Congress yesterday: Just as the House bill circulating earlier did,

One of the donut holes in last week’s testimony from Justice and Defense Department officials about the Obama administration’s planning for military commissions

To hear the Bush administration promote its $700 billion bailout plan for Wall Street’s ailing financial institutions, the impression created is one of dire

The prospects for congressional approval of climate change legislation this year have dimmed but not disappeared. Yesterday the Senate voted against using the

New numbers released today by the Center for American Progress show that industry groups, including many associated with the oil and coal industries, spent a

It’s no mystery that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been opposed to some of the very bank reforms proposed by President Obama yesterday (which explains why

How’s this for absurdity? Citing unnamed Democratic officials, The Associated Press reports that there’s pressure on Congress to drop the executive pay

In this corner: President Obama, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, (reluctantly) the service secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force, this very smart Air

The Foundation for Government Accountability logo (Pic via Facebook ) The Foundation for Government Accountability debuted a new website today — an online database of the salaries of public employees: FloridaOpenGov.org . The website is almost a replica of a project by Foundation President Tarren Bragdon at his last place of employment, the Maine Heritage Policy Center. According to a press release from the organization , the website is a compilation of “about 35 million public records detailing nearly $1.4 trillion in spending and payroll by state, county, municipality and school.” Here is some of the data included in the database, according to the release: County government payroll (FY 1997-2011) Local K-12 public education payroll (FY 1997-2011) State government payroll (1995-2010) Local government spending (FY 1993-2010) State vendor payments (FY 2005-2011) Steve Mistler of the Sun-Journal wrote in September 2010 that Bragdon’s group in Maine “fed the public’s oft-held suspicion that government is too wasteful published the names and salaries of every state employee on maineopengov.org, and linked it to the center’s homepage.” Critics called the website a “cynical hijacking of transparency to foster public mistrust in government,” Mistler reported

Sen. John McCain, first debate: I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I’ll take care of them. And I’ve been proud of

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) asked a great question: Sure, it would be better for Afghan farmers to grow wheat instead of poppies, a crop that heavily funds the

A reader over at TPM speculates: Whatever you think of the Palin speech, whether it was cynical or alienating to anyone outside the base, it was solidly

The McCain campaign concedes that Sen. John McCain isn’t going to win Philadelphia, according to TWI correspondent Anna Marie Cox. But if he can win in the

Today, as expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise U.S. interest rates, instead holding the target federal funds rate steady between 0.0

The office of Gov. Rick Scott will now be charging for public records requests, under a new policy announced today.

Both wings of the pharameceutical industry--brand name producers and generic manufacturers--are praising the White House choice of Kansas Gov. Kathleen

Freezing foreclosures has become a favorite tactic to slow the housing meltdown -- a way to show that something’s being done to help people stay in their homes. But there’s no solid evidence these reprieves do anything more than postpone the day of reckoning.

MarketWatch takes a hard look at Republican nominee John McCain’s surprise proposal in last night’s debate to have the government buy up bad mortgages and