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As of yesterday, banks need to ask customers whether they would like to be allowed to overdraw their checking accounts for a fee, usually $35. About 70 percent

Today, the Senate is debating the tax extenders’ package, also known as the jobs bill or H.R. 4213. The beleaguered legislation has been cut by more than $100

This is a very big deal. The Obama administration has been pressing Pakistan to expand its military successes against the Taliban in the Swat Valley for months.

More than 200,000 people gathered on the National Mall today to participate in March for America, a rally advocating comprehensive immigration

Would you like some irony with that baggie of medical marijuana? Well, like it or not, you’re getting some

When it rains, it pours, and when a reporter finds a good story, they don’t let go. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow seems to have found a good story in Colorado. This week, she ran her third segment on Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s efforts to stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters

Among the many subjects President Obama addressed at his news conference last night, he gave a brief nod to the increasingly controversial problem of his

Maj. Stefan F. Cook, the reservist whose clever scheme to back out of his voluntary deployment by suing for proof of President Obama’s citizenship ended with

Friday saw the end of the first act in Texas’ fight over new district maps drawn by the State Legislature earlier this year. Today, the U.S. Department of

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines (Pic via Facebook) Democratic National Committee chair Rep

A Senate aide says lawmakers are working on an agreement that could clear the way for an initial procedural vote on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s request to declassify certain documents that he said will show the effectiveness of Bush administration interrogation

More Republicans voiced support for a possible change to the 14th Amendment to remove automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.

It’s all credit cards, all day long. And Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Banking Committee went on MSNBC, this afternoon to reiterate his

When the news broke last week that the United States had tried to prevent Binyam Mohamed from suing the U.S. government -- or even talking about his treatment

Despite the Obama administration’s surprisingly vigorous arguments that the case had to be dismissed to prevent disclosure of state secrets, the U.S. Court of

If there was ever a question of who controls the Senate, it was answered this afternoon when Democratic leaders fell a whopping 15 votes shy of moving

News out of the conference committee splitting the differences between the House and Senate versions of financial regulatory reform: The Consumer Financial

As While House leaders, Democrats and Republicans in Congress engaged in contentious debate over an anti-abortion-rights bill Thursday, anti-abortion-rights

The State Judicial Nominating Commission will begin interviews to fill a vacancy on the Iowa Court of Appeals at 1 p.m. today.

U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack became the first House Democrat Friday to co-sponsor proposed legislation that would set the age at which members of Congress are eligible to draw from their pension to the age of retirement under the Social Security Act.

One more thing on the Post’s story about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) desired grand bargain on terrorism detentions -- Check out this paragraph: Attorney