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Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) wrote to CIA Director Leon Panetta yesterday to claim an inaccuracy in the CIA’s list of briefings held for members of Congress on

Two Minnesota lawmakers are attending a conference hosted by a controversial corporate nonprofit that critics say allows corporations unrestricted access to state lawmakers, as well as the ability to draft bills without public disclosure. State Rep. Mary Kiffmeyer (R-Big Lake) is the state co-chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Minnesota.

I asked Rob Ryan, a spokesman for NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, if his campaign would ask the deceptive Common Sense for America ad to be

Moments ago, the Senate adjourned for a two-week-long spring recess. The last act of business was to schedule a cloture vote on a House-passed measure to extend

The DSCC is gleefully sending around video -- at around six minutes in -- of the Republican hopefuls for Sen. Evan Bayh’s (D-Ind.) seat backing Sen. Jim

He was angry, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said just now about President Obama’s reaction after reading Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s comments to

This can’t possibly be good: A 20-year-old American man was arrested late Monday at a checkpoint near the Afghan border in a tribal region where Pakistani

One side is playing election-year politics; the other is wrestling with urgent budget policies -- and the source of funding is starting to matter less than whether or not it arrives at all.

SARANC LAKE, N.Y. - The mood is getting darker at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election party. Results from Jefferson County--Republican

As reported on Monday, the Pentagon didn’t embrace Stuart Bowen’s proposal to create a new agency -- the U.S. Office of Contingency Operations -- to help plan

Two weeks ago I noted that the U.S. military signed its last checks to the former insurgents known as the Sons of Iraq or the Awakening Councils. The program --

A bill seeking to exempt depictions of deaths from Florida’s public records laws is making its way through the legislature, and freedom-of-information advocates are warning that the repercussions of such a broad measure could be detrimental to the public’s ability to hold law enforcement and government agents accountable.

“Show us the maps.” Much like attendees at Florida’s first public redistricting hearings in Tallahassee, speakers at yesterday’s hearing in Jacksonville argued that lawmakers need to edit their redistricting timeline and release maps soon, so that the public can comment on specific redistricting proposals.

As Obama and Clinton near an announcement of a top State Department official to promote the United States’ image abroad, some wonder if the position will be viewed as a national security or public relations job.

The editors of RedState.com are telling Republican National Committee members that if they can’t support Ken Blackwell, they should re-elect Mike Duncan. In

There’s not much to report in the NY-23 absentee ballot count, where Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman continues to gain votes at a much, much slower

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)* is promising to sue for another recount if, as expected, Al Franken is declared the winner of Minnesota’s Senate race this week.

I’m seeing a bunch of stories about how the spiking worry about the deficit that’s showing up in polls is a political problem for the White House. Inside the

Insurance companies paid out $55 million in claims from the natural gas outage of last winter, reports Trip Jennings of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Reid Wilson has the latest fundraising pitch from the GOP’s Senate campaign committee, and, if anything, it’s more double-take-inducing than the pitch that

The conservative group is going back into the fray, raising its total investment in the NY-23 special election to $550,000.

ABC News reports that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will remain on the job in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration for at least a year, quoting a