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With the Obama administration revealing today that health-care spending in 2008 saw its smallest rise since 1960, long-time health policy reporter Merrill

DEWITT — Six of the men vying for the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Debbie Stabenow in 2012 squared off Thursday in DeWitt at a Tea Party-sponsored forum and came out in favor of abolishing numerous federal agencies. Participating in the forum were Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan; Clark Durant, a charter school advocate; former Congressman Pete Hoekstra; former family judge Randy Hekman; Scott Bowman and Peter Konetchy

Durbin and Schumer are preparing for a leadership battle in case Reid loses reelection. But even Schumer could be vulnerable. Rumors of a secret

A mandatory-ultrasound bill is not the only Republican proposal that seeks to restrict abortion rights sure to come up in the state legislature during its upcoming session — limiting access to abortion is clearly a top priority for GOP legislators.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, is no fan of the insurance industry, as was made perfectly clear

There are something like 900,000 Pakistanis internally displaced because of the ongoing fighting between the Taliban and the Pakistani military, according to

Rep. Fred Upton published an op-ed piece in the Washington Times this week, arguing that the key to job creation is to eliminate federal environmental regulations. Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council responded to Upton, accusing him of distorting the study he cited

Newt Gingrich at the 2010 Value Voters Summit (ZumaPress)

Under a taxpayer-funded program free from congressional oversight, Treasury officials paid for bank assets at a flat rate, rather than adjusting for risk.

Adam Kokesh, a libertarian Marine Corps veteran who became a fairly prominent anti-Iraq War activist, is running for Congress as an independent in New Mexico’s

There is nowhere near enough money for Colorado to continue to do the business of the state as things stand, according to an influential team of researchers at the University of Denver . State lawmakers will either have to raise more money or cut away the kind of programs and services most Americans view as measures of the baseline quality of life achieved over centuries in the world’s wealthiest nation

GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her Christian husband are undergoing increased scrutiny after a weekend report by national gay rights advocacy group Truth Wins Out (TWO). The TWO report disclosed that the organization had sent employee John Becker into a counseling clinic owned by the Bachmanns.

I just talked with Club for Growth Executive Director David Keating about his group’s activity in the NY-23 special election. The Club, like many other

This week’s award for bad faith spin goes to an anonymous (of course) GOP Senate aide to complain to Jake Tapper that the media is not angry enough at Sen.

Today, RealtyTrac reported foreclosure and home-sale information for September and the third quarter of the year, showing an extraordinarily weak housing

This morning, the Department of Labor announced that unemployment declined month-on-month in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Year-on-year, unemployment

The ballroom was packed for Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) CPAC speech -- the doors were shut for a good 30 minutes before the speech began. And to the strains of

I haven’t blogged much on the yo mama contest between the Democratic National Committee and the National Republican Campaign Committee, but it’s been

Greg Sargent reports that the GOP may yet come up with a way to satisfy the Tea Party’s demands for representation among the Republican leadership. How? By

Josh Gerstein reports on a speech Attorney General Eric Holder gave today: Lawyers who accept professional responsibility to protect the rule of law and the