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Remember when the Bush administration was opposed to tapping the $700 billion Wall Street bailout to help Detroit’s Big Three? Fugetaboutit. The Treasury

Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly getting closer to appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration. That’s

A great catch from The Wall Street Journal: , the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust

If all went as planned, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) jumped out of a plane on Saturday to show his support for the coal

ThinkProgress does a quick wrap of yesterday’s Code Red protest that leaves out some context. In the morning, there was also a vehicle driving around Capitol

The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) spoke today at the Center for American Progress indicating education policymakers cannot wait for socio-economic conditions to

Some new (and continuity-filled!) Pentagon appointments from the White House today: first, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy’s deputy will

Morning Money has posted a Goldman Sachs research report, and it seems the investment bank is spooked by just one thing in the financial regulatory reform bill:

Lynn Forester de Rothschild represents the rift in the Democratic party that divides major donors who support Sen. Hillary Clinton and those calling for unity behind the presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

New Orleans is a city that recognizes that day laborers did participate and did come to the rescue in terms of reconstruction, says Jacinta Gonzales of the Congress of Day Laborers.

At the Florida tea party debate on Monday, GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann criticized policies allowing undocumented

Add one more item to the already long list of alleged reasons for abortions: socialism. # The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property is a Pennsylvania-based group of about 120,000 “lay Catholic Americans concerned about the moral crisis shaking the remnants of Christian civilization.” The group’s ginned up rhetoric has made its way to the Catholic community of Westchester, Miami — a community that is part of state Sen

Not the horse. Here’s the statement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, reacting to reports that

After three weeks of stalling over controversial amendments to legislation extending unemployment benefits, Senate GOP leaders are floating a new message as

After a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for more information on Texas’ new law requiring state-issued photo ID at polling places, the Texas

TWI’s David Weigel made an appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown last night, chatting with Lawrence O’Donnell about all things Palin: her hand scribblings, her