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As I reported yesterday, electric vehicles advocates are confident they’ll get a vote on their proposal proposal to incentivize the vehicles in 2011. Well, it

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, told reporters on Friday that a public option will be included in

At the National Review, Reihan Salam, all-around smartypants, voices the conservative response to my post proposing that Congress should create more tax

Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Gov.

The first polling on the potential candidates for Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate race showed Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) winning easily. Public Policy Polling had

I suppose it’s not really surprising that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- technically a two-year appointment, though frequently re-upp’d --

Why are lawmakers pushing an immigration-enforcement measure that may draw a constitutional challenge, over the objections of business groups, immigrants and their advocates? One reason is that voters appear to support it, as a new poll by Suffolk University shows.

The Ohio House passed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion limits today in a 54 to 43 vote. # A direct challenge to Roe v.

PHILADELPHIA -- Now that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is in the national spotlight, speculation about how she will hold up to the intense media scrutiny is rampant.

The just-released statement from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) following a report from the Congressional Budget Office that the panel’s

Rep. Allen West, R-Fort Lauderdale, whose appearance at the Wilton Manors Business Association’s Aug

Two 14-year old girls committed suicide last week in Marshall, Minn., and the evidence suggests they’d been bullied. Relatives of Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz told Meredith Viera of the TODAY Show that the girls may have been more than just friends

Conservative political strategist Floyd Brown, who gained a sort of immortality during the 1988 presidential campaign for an ad attacking Democratic candidate

More from the McCain campaign conference call featuring senior adviser Steve Schmidt and campaign manager Rick Davis: After disparaging The New York Times

As the debate over health care reform continues its heated march through August, conservatives are defending the increasingly common lawmaker-directed town hall

Over the last couple of weeks, The Iowa Independent’s team has been tracking the state’s congressional delegation as they hold town hall meetings on health care

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) signed on overnight, meaning that the sweeping Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill, the Obama administration’s second

Following up on Dave’s post about the GOP push to keep Guantanamo detainees out of Kalamazoo schoolyards, here’s Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Fox News

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) appears to have survived her tough primary runoff tonight against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D) in Arkansas’ Senate race. The Associated

During her unsuccessful campaign to replace Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), four-term Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) said repeatedly that she would resign from