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Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill, just released a statement saying that he and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) have

In Texas, a bill to renew a five-year-old Medicaid women’s health program that is due to expire in December is under threat from passage, all given that

The battle over Medicare has hit the airways in Iowa, as a group dedicated to fighting cuts to the popular government program has begun buying TV ads in Des Moines. The Partnership to Protect Medicare spent $39,390 at the local CBS and NBC affiliates in Des Moines between Nov

Perhaps the biggest unexpected fact to emerge in the hearing comes in response to a question from Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.). According to Gen. McChrystal,

GUANTANAMO BAY -- As Omar Khadr’s defense team rushes to present as much of its case as possible this week before a court-mandated government psychological exam

Laura Rozen takes a crack at it. In other words, be willing to try to get back to diplomatic negotiations with Iran, slow down their program, protect regional

Just a few days after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before House lawmakers about his role in Bank of America’s controversial buyout of Merrill

I’m at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for Afghanistan: Planning for Success, the first conference put on by the Foreign Policy Initiative, the new

COMBAT OUTPOST ZORMAT, Afghanistan -– Leaving Salerno, I asked someone what he knew about Zormat, an area in southwestern Paktia Province to the west of the

The decision by leadership in a small Iowa town to provide the public additional information on write-in municipal candidates has raised a few eyebrows, but state officials indicate that there is nothing inherently unethical or unlawful regarding the instance. Tim Box, Linn County’s deputy commissioner of elections, said his office was alerted to information posted on the website for the City of Ely , which he described as being “odd” and “unusual.” Staff at the city, posted announcement on the website for the Nov

Last week, the House Select Committee on State Sovereignty fielded testimony on legislation seeking to challenge or replace ’Obamacare.’ One particular set of

Some weird spin from Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele: Steele, before ducking into an elevator on on the second floor of the Capitol: I

The administration’s rescue plan for housing is taking shape. But as Calculated Risk notes, one thing it apparently won’t include is a proposal - once under

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Not only is Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not the first high-ranking Iraqi official to suggest that the U.S. troop presence ought to continue after the 2011

<p>Richard Clarke, the Cassandra of counterterrorism, the man behind the <a title="unheeded Delenda plan"

Last night, Orly Taitz told readers of her blog that she’d taped an interview on The Colbert Report and expected it to be edited to maker her look silly. I

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that initial weekly jobless claims declined slightly to 472,000. Initial claims need to fall into the 300,000s for