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From the gaggle transcript: The President thought the meeting was very productive, an extension of the meetings that have been had thus far as we reassess and

When troubled borrower Diane McLeod’s debt problems made the front page of The New York Times earlier this week, she ignited a debate over borrowers,

Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow at this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing testified that when he saw the so-called

Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park (Pic via Facebook) Think Progress is reporting that just months after playing a lead role in the temporary shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Rep

Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture has an astounding followup to Matthew Blake’s coverage of Congress tearing into the rating agencies on Wednesday. As Matthew

The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), has been added

Quelle surprise. Eli Lake reports today that regardless of Sen. Richard Lugar’s (R-Ind.) support for the New START nuclear-arms reduction treaty with Russia,

Today, returned from the six-week August recess to vote on the state aid bill, House Democrats put forward legislation to create a fifth tier of unemployment

The announcement is the result of an Obama administration task force’s proposal -- first reported by The Washington Independent.

Photo: Chisholm’s Iron Man Statue; Source: Flickr, jimmywayne Minnesota’s Executive Council voted Wednesday for a six month delay on the lease of mineral rights on privately-held land in northeast Minnesota. A handful of non-ferrous mining companies are seeking the 77 leases , but landowners, some of whom attended Wednesday’s meeting, are unhappy with the process and the prospect of pollution by non-ferrous mining.

On Friday, the news broke that hackers had obtained and released thousands of email exchanges between climate scientists at England’s University of East Anglia.

MarketWatch had some additional thoughts on Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s $300 billion plan to have the government buy up mortgages. People

The key question about how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab retained his visa to enter the U.S. centers on the connection between the terror watchlist he was on and

Cultural populism has helped Republicans win many an election. Why haven’t liberals found a way to counter it?

Unexpectedly, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) have a problem with prospective U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill. From a joint statement

In an interesting chain of events last week, “uterus” became a four-letter word on the Florida House floor. A group of pro-uterus insurrectionists have now leaped to the defense of the now-defenseless “uterus” via the Internet

You thought Phil Mudd was done? Months ago, Mudd, the chief of the FBI’s national security branch and a respected longtime CIA official, was forced to withdraw

Merle Wertman, now 62, was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera five years ago. He had no idea what Polycythemia Vera was. That isn’t surprising, considering

This article by Fox News Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon would be problematic even if its main data point -- President Obama’s 47-percent approval rating

Let the games begin. Following yesterday’s high-profile health reform summit at the White House, the Senate Finance Committee announced today that Peter