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I think Mike Vanderboegh will end up making a lot of trouble for Tea Parties with this off-the-rails blog post calling, many times over, for violence against

The third-ranking Republican in the House, who had been concentrating on a campaign against cap-and-trade legislation, has swiftly become one of the most vocal

With unemployment still hovering near double digits, the Christian Science Monitor this week highlights a forgotten angle in the government’s efforts to help

Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they lacked a deep bench of

Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) for U.S. Senate in Nevada, is in some hot water for remarks she made to a

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is launching a new political action committee, Country First, replacing the storied Straight Talk America PAC that was folded into

It has been a quiet week on the financial regulatory reform front, but that does not mean the deal-making has stopped. With the House and Senate out of session

Fresh off some heartening poll numbers for Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) in his Senate race, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) had announced that it will launch a

It faded from news coverage over the past few weeks, but when President Obama returns from Prague, he’ll have to make a decision 0n pressing forward to try

The process of opting out of the immigration enforcement program Secure Communities has been shrouded in secrecy and contradictory statements -- most recently

The war cabinet convenes this afternoon for the first of a series of debates over Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy. Previews that don’t preview much can be

The Senate Finance Committee just voted down the second and last public option amendment expected to be offered during the panel’s markup of health reform

The process is young, but the loudest criticisms of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court have so far come from Republicans leaders wary that she’s

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, despite her write-in campaign to keep her Senate seat, will lose her spot as the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural

Turns out, it’s a number of the country’s largest banks. In a report out today, several environmental groups rank nine of the biggest players on Wall Street

Is the sky falling? Are pigs flying? Apparently Wall Street executives have become sensitive to the fact that while people are losing their jobs and their

As we’ve written here before, Medicaid funding is a tricky business, not least of all because program enrollment always jumps in times of economic turmoil, when

This is the second in a series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents --- Who is Ray Odierno, anyway? It’s hard to say. Odierno, of course, is not

West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant announced this afternoon that a special election to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s (D) seat will occur in

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is projected to keep her Senate seat, besting her Republican opponent Carly Fiorina, the Associated Press reports. That means

According to CNN’s Peter Hamby, that’s what the protester who just got ejected from the hearing room was yelling.

My former colleague Mike Lillis, now at The Hill, reports that Senate Democrats are attempting to win over Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan