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Yesterday, Senate Democratic leaders began moving on a proposal to scrap the current formula dictating doctors’ Medicare rates and replacing it with a system

At a press conference on Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-Ga.) anti-czar legislation, Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) held up a chart of 34 czars in the

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will cross the state today and tomorrow, first returning to Sioux City today to further assess flood damage, now estimated to be in the tens of millions of dollars, and then will go to eastern Bettendorf the next day to meet President Barack Obama

One of the themes that emerged from last week’s Republican presidential debate in Nevada – the foreclosure capital of the United States – is that GOP candidates largely don’t think the federal government should do much to fix the ongoing housing crisis. Instead, candidates – if they’ve said anything at all about housing – feel the real estate market should be allowed to hit rock bottom while the broader economy is stimulated by programs aimed at job growth – especially in energy sectors like oil and gas development and coal mining.

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood was on Off the Record with Tim Skubick this week talking about Gov. Snyder’s record, the presidential campaign in this state and much more. Video below the fold

Treasury Sec. Henry Paulson saved AIG to avoid a brutal restructuring of the credit default swap market.

The Senate Judiciary Committee vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate has been postponed after Sen. Arlen Specter

Yesterday afternoon, House and Senate Democrats reconciling the two versions of financial regulatory reform announced a compromise on debit card fees -- an

So he tells The New York Times. This renders inoperative something I said to Jezebel’s Megan Carpentier this morning. We’ll see how this plays out in practice,

Does the United States have to remain in Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is captured? And will the war be incomplete until that happens? Rep. Gus Bilirakis

Rep. Richard Nugent, R-Brooksville (left) (Pic via Facebook) According to immigrant advocates, a new immigration enforcement bill being considered in Congress would undermine existing immigration law by removing prosecutorial discretion and deferred action, two components that protect undocumented victims of domestic violence. Michelle Ortiz — the supervising attorney of Lucha , a unit within the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center — says that Rep.

If it’s a population-protection mission you’re after in Afghanistan, then placing U.S. troops far from the population doesn’t make much sense. And

Even as proponents of legalizing marijuana in Colorado meet this evening to debate the best way to accomplish that, former U.S.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney seems dangerously close to waffling on union reform, an issue core to many conservative voters, in Ohio, as he has

Building a Better Ohio, the group heading the campaign to preserve Ohio’s controversial anti-collective bargaining law Senate Bill 5, is, as a 501(c)4

Gov. Rick Scott (Pic via flgov.com) The director of Florida State University’s program in history and philosophy of science, Michael Ruse, has released the latest of what he calls “dispatches from the war zone,” a series of pieces looking at Gov. Rick Scott’s likely changes to Florida’s higher education system