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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Livonia) has spent the last several days searching Iowa for support for a potential bid for the GOP nomination for president. The Des Moines Register reports the Congressman from Michigan is eyeing the race — and the potential challengers — carefully

A recently released report (PDF) by Protecting Ohio’s Protectors found that since 2008, Ohio public employees have made contract concessions on the state and

Following recent layoffs of 13 firefighters in Lancaster, Ohio, despite the local union’s concessions, the town’s mayor, Republican David S. Smith, says the

Following news that Public Policy Polling could only find one Iowan supporting former Obama administration ambassador and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman , the potential 2012 candidate has announced his strategy offers only a wink and a nod to the Hawkeye State. During a weekend stop in New Hampshire, according to the Associated Press , Huntsman, 51, noted that he’s “not competing in Iowa for a reason.” That reason, he said is because “I don’t believe in subsidies that prop up corn, soybeans and ethanol.” “I probably won’t be spending a lot of time in Iowa,” Huntsman added

Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink is set to announce the details of her new foundation today. Sink, Florida’s previous chief financial officer and a longtime banker, has said that her foundation will focus on economic development. In a recent interview , Sink said that the Florida Next Foundation will be a “non-profit, non-partisan policy foundation doing some research, gathering best ideas from around the world and input from everyday Floridians about how we rebuild our economy by supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs.” The Foundation’s initial headquarters will be in Tampa’s Museum of Art, where Sink is slated to give a press conference sometime today

Crossroads GPS, a conservative policy and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., is building on its TV ads criticizing U.S. Rep

The list of business and industry organizations that oppose federally mandated E-Verify, the federal electronic employee verification program, continues to grow. # In a conference call hosted on Tuesday by the National Immigration Forum , the Associated Industries of Florida along with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Georgia’s Fruit and Vegetable Association agreed that mandatory E-Verify as defined in Rep

Michele Bachmann’s campaign and CBS News clashed over the weekend when her campaign was accidentally included on an email chain with CBS News’ John Dickerson explaining that Bachmann would not get as much attention during and after Saturday’s presidential debate. According to CNN, Bachmann’s campaign manager Keith Nahigian walked through the spin room and called Dickerson a “piece of shit.” Prior to Saturday night’s foreign policy debate in South Carolina hosted by CBS and National Journal, Bachmann spokesperson Alice Stewart was accidentally copied on an email about a post debate webshow hosted by CBS. The email said that Bachmann would not receive the same amount of attention that the frontrunners would due to her low polling numbers.

The McCain campaign today brought out the big guns to set the record straight about Sen. John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating, a central figure in the

Rep. Kenneth B. Horn (R-Frankenmuth) is pro-choice when it comes to light bulbs.

Michael Rajner, legislative director of the Florida GLBT Democratic Caucus , tells The Florida Independent in a written statement that Sen.

As voluntary mortgage modifications have failed to keep pace with foreclosures, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said

A controversial prayer rally took place at Ford Field Friday and Saturday but many mainline Christian leaders protested the event, calling out organizers for their anti-Muslim, anti-gay and even anti-Catholic views. The Detroit Free Press reports : Organizers for Engle’s prayer event were expecting 50,000 to 70,000 people to show up, but the crowd size was markedly smaller than that, with much of the stadium unfilled

Michelle Obama will make her first appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Wednesday. Her husband has already done three visits, but Michelle

Less than a week remains before Gov. Rick Perry’s Houston prayer event, and since Perry distanced himself from some controversial endorsers of The Response,

Responding to congressional opposition to an investigation of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), the national anti-abortion rights group that

I reported earlier that Arlington, Va., is giving up on its efforts to opt out of Secure Communities, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows

Yesterday The National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed its plans to replace an aging Los Alamos National Labs facility, which runs across a major fault line, with an estimated $4-6 billion plutonium lab. According to the NNSA notice, the new building “would provide vitally essential technical support capabilities to NNSA’s national security mission.” However, according to Greg Mello of the Albuquerque-based Los Alamos Study Group, a LANL watchdog, the project creates very few new jobs for New Mexicans — perhaps as few as 300 — over its projected 10-year-long construction. Moreover, the unofficial cost of the building by the time of its actual completion could run as high as $12 billion.

Via Ben Smith, I see that the America Family Association’s Bryan Fischer went nuclear over CPAC’s inclusion of GOProud and included some surprisingly hard

A three-year-old state-funded website in Massachusetts that provides youth-tailored information on sex and reproductive health has fueled recent outrage among

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly jobs report for January this morning and, once again, what appears to be very good news on the surface is really bad news when you look at the details. The good news on the surface is that the national unemployment rate dropped a whopping .4 percent, down to 9 percent overall. The bad news in the details is that it did so while the economy only created a net 36,000 new jobs, which means nearly the entire decline is due not to people finding jobs but to people exhausting their unemployment benefits and joining the shadow world of the 99ers — uncounted.

For Rep. Mike Coffman, R-CD6, signing on as Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s Colorado chairman probably seemed like a smart move back when Perry went from announcing he was running to being the front-runner in a matter of hours