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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday and was asked about her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, but deferred comment because her agency is tasked with making a decision on whether to approve the project.

Jonathan Martin reports: President Obama will campaign for Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley on Sunday, POLITICO has learned, a sign that Democrats

Ezra Klein nabs a fundraising letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in which the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee pledges to fight the

The latest in a string of lawsuits challenging harsh interrogation techniques could fare better than similar cases.

Imagine what would happen if Mir Hussein Moussavi disappeared into Evin prison this afternoon and then a few days later Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerged to say that

I reported yesterday that the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco was putting on a lecture by alleged phone-tamperer James O’Keefe on undercover journalism.

Check out The New York Times’ tick-tock of how the Obama team came to its Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy. Two observations. One, Vice President Joe Biden is

Following yesterday’s release of a secretly taped conversation between Roland Burris and the brother of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), there’s been a

A coalition of renewable energy advocates and labor and environmental groups got specific today in calling for passage of a renewable energy standard this

Speaking just before the Audit the Fed amendment went to vote (ongoing now), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), the architect of the financial regulatory reform bill,

That’s the idea that was being tossed around yesterday in the Senate, where several White House officials testified before the Banking Committee on the early

The border fence has become something of a political minefield for President Obama.

Our finance writer Mary Kane reports that a bruised, battered and little-noticed federal agency responsible for insuring mortgages is about to take a prominent

As Michigan Democrats are scratching their heads over how to resolve the dilemma of their uncounted primary delegates, the office of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.)

For the second day in a row, here’s State Department spokesman Robert Wood eliding the issue of how to conditionalize aid to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He’s

Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a California-based religious right webcast on Mar.

Car manufacturers looking for a bailout in December pledged to meet standards they now call unreasonable.

In his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, Congress’s Phony War on Torture,” William McGurn takes congressional Democrats to task for not immediately

The militant triviality of Washington personalities is enough to make me break character and go outside of my national-security lane. Andy Card, chief of staff