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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

During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told Politico today that he remains undecided on who he will support in the race for the state’s open Senate seat, even as a new

To build out a theme from the previous post, it’s noteworthy how the National Security Strategy draws on conceptions of military power developed over the last

This afternoon, Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called on BP, the British oil company responsible for the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Citizens for National Security, a Boca Raton-based nonprofit, will file a lawsuit against Gov. Rick Scott, the state and the Florida Department of Education tomorrow. According to the complaint (.pdf) released on the group’s website, the suit seeks temporary and permanent injunctive relief rescinding Senate Bill 2120, which requires two state or national experts to review textbook selections. # In its complaint, Citizens alleges that it is “not possible for two people to review all the textbooks in Florida within a four month period of time” and that S.B.

Democrats are ripping Sen. John McCain for misrepresenting his garage, after Newsweek reported that some of the McCain family’s 13 cars are foreign -- despite

The New York Times reports that Republican Bob McDonnell rode to an easy victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race Tuesday, based on exit polls. Mr. McDonnell

And just like that, as if to reassure those on the Left that he’s still tuned in to their concerns, comes this report, from First Read: President-elect Obama

Josh Marshall is all over GOP Senate candidate Scott Brown’s strange statement to reporters that he was unfamiliar with the Tea Party movement. Whatever he

Ingham County Register of Deeds Curtis Hertel, Jr. is alleging that two Florida companies may be engaged in scams involving Michigan residents facing foreclosure

The good folks at BloggingHeads asked me to film an episode from Afghanistan. So, from my hotel room in Kabul, my friend Rob Farley from Lawyers Guns and Money

If we’re going to ask why did he do it, knowing full well that he’s in the same mosque in 2001 with the radical preacher going nuts, we’re going to also have

Just now, following a defeat at the hands of the Minnesota Supreme Court, former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) officially conceded the 2008 Senate race and

The Minnesota governor’s race appears headed for a recount. Republicans, who won the legislature on Tuesday, may seek to draw it out so they can work with Gov. Tim Pawlenty to pass conservative legislation. In the background looms the specter of the 2008 Senate recount.

Politico has a story today on how some of the likely new GOP House members plan to address immigration. Many of them pushed for tough immigration enforcement

Just so no one misconstrues a previous post as me having issues with Dave Dilegge or Small Wars Journal, let me hat-tip SWJ for this just-released Army field

It is with a mix of emotions that I announce the departure of The Washington Independent’s national security reporter -- and in many ways the cornerstone of the

Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) outlined his priorities for next Congress today if he is chosen by his fellow Republicans to assume the chairmanship of the House

The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill -- the product of 18 months of study and negotiation by Democratic and Republican lawmakers -- this morning

To no one’s surprise, today’s energy and climate meeting between key senators and President Obama appears to have been inconclusive, with Democrats opening up

Nouri al-Maliki sent hints that he actually wants a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. I was... skeptical. Now the permanent national-security adviser,

With House passage of broad oil spill response legislation late Friday, all eyes are on the Senate this week as Democrats fight to find the votes necessary to