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Treasury and the FDIC put together a plan to offer as many as 3 million homeowners lower loan payments for at least five years. Homeowners, at the center of the economic crisis, may get their turn at a helping hand from government. But can they get the help they really need?

To the dismay of many liberal lawmakers, the Senate Finance Committee famously excluded a public option from its health reform bill, instead proposing the

I don’t know if former Vice President Dick Cheney just misses being in the spotlight, or if he actually believes the stuff he spews on television these days,

Since my piece on the intensifying battle over preventive detention was published, Ken Gude from the Center for American Progress wrote to point out an

Since writing my last post, I received this from Tracy Schmaler at the Justice Department, responding to my earlier request for comment on the habeas corpus

News Corp., the parent company of Fox News, gave a cool $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this summer, according to Politico’s Ben Smith. When earlier

Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty thinks he has what it takes to steal the youth vote away from President Barack Obama , but Democrats are hitting back

The Associated Press reports that 27-year-old Justin Travis and 28-year-old Michael Carter were both killed after a roof collapsed Wednesday night at the

David M. Herszenhorn at The New York Times points out a curious thing happening in the midst of the debate over student lending reform: Although the plan to

Several farm-state senators are looking to include a provision in a major appropriations bill that would significantly increase the amount of ethanol blended

The Austin American-Statesman’s Jason Embry reported today on the deep ties new University of Texas Regent Alex Cranberg has to the state of Colorado, where

The Washington Post’s A-1 story on Republican opposition to the Democratic stimulus plan emphasizes what I learned this week in talking to Republicans about

In my quest to find former enemy combatants who were required to agree not to sue the United States for unlawful indefinite detention and mistreatment as a

Most of the stories about the Republican filibuster yesterday of the defense authorization bill have focused on two amendments it squashed: a repeal of Don’t

I asked CIA spokesman George Little to respond to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) charge that the CIA misled Congress about torture. Here’s his response: The

Updated: 12:09 p.m. Seniors and people with disabilities who receive health care through Medicare* might have an additional service covered in the near future:

At a time when many states are slicing services for people with disabilities across the nation, the federal government has come through with a welcome offering:

Washington is quiet, but that does not mean it is dormant. Staffers on the Hill and in the Treasury Department are working on a plan to restore normalcy to the

Rachel Hartman has a great roundup of what conservatives are saying about the upcoming Supreme Court battle. But it’s not just on the right that Justice John

Roll Call’s Shira Toeplitz reports that former Rep. Chris Chocola (R-Ind.), who went down in the 2006 midterms to Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), is the frontrunner

Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio (R) just agreed to a debate with Gov. Charlie Crist and Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), then immediately said yes to six