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Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be

The House and Senate have each passed versions of financial regulatory reform, and it will be up to a conference committee comprised of members of both bodies

A Republican National Committee debate reveals how GOP party leaders aren’t planning on ideological changes.

The New York Times identifies the State Department official who urged Twitter to reschedule a site maintenance -- and risk disrupting the communications of

This video from Glenn Beck’s show is making the rounds on the right, and it is sort of sublime. Beck, who’s been after interim White House Communications

Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.)

Dear Justice Dept, I know it’s been a while since we talked, but I felt compelled to reach out to you. I read a report this morning by Brian Ross, Anna

Here are some photos from the two-day conservative conference. Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum, poses for photos. In the background:

It was in Iowa City that then-candidate Barack Obama first unveiled his health care reform plans, back in May 2007. Now, having signed a landmark reform bill,

Illegal immigration is down and Department of Homeland Security officials say the Arizona-Mexico border is more secure than ever. But many people still attempt

Former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton told a congressional panel today that the department, under her tenure, saw its relationship with the oil

Daphne Eviatar is guest-blogging for Glenn Greenwald today. The following is cross-posted at Salon. If, as the latest reports indicate, Attorney General Eric

The sailing is suddenly much smoother for Leon Panetta’s reported nomination to head the CIA, as California senator and prior Panetta critic Diane Feinstein --

In another sign that the foreclosure crisis might have peaked, foreclosure filings declined 3 percent in May, RealtyTrac reported this morning. Florida, Nevada,

Today on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) took to the chamber floor and asked for unanimous consent to pass his much-discussed bill to raise the

The story out of Colorado is that the Tea Party’s favored Republicans will face the Democrats’ chosen candidates in November, while Connecticut Republican

Undocumented workers are working nearly 100 hours per week in unsafe conditions to clean up the Enbridge oil spill in Battle Creek, Mich., according to an

Via Abu Muqawama, let’s presume for the sake of argument that we know everything we need to know about the Obama administration’s forthcoming shift in

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee, just delivered a floor speech that is deeply

After being repudiated by pillars of the GOP legal establishment over a video that calls Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees the