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The United States in 2010 slipped to third in the world in the amount of private capital invested in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts . The U.S. saw $34 billion in private equity invested in the sector last year, a 51 percent jump from 2009, but China received $54.4 billion, increasing the lead it’s held over the U.S.

At a noon press conference in Raleigh on Tuesday, North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul “Skip” Stam said that laws that bar polygamy and incest are the

The possibility prompts fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 terrorists should never be allowed anywhere on U.S. soil, let alone in a civilian U.S. court.

Today’s moment of sheer Jamesian confusion comes from Rep. Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) disclosure today that Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is larding the Defense

President Obama this morning finalized (sort of) the Democrats’ sweeping health care reforms, signing into law the reconciliation bill that refines the larger

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick (Pic by MilitaryHealth, via Flickr) Donald Berwick, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, told reporters yesterday that the agency has the funds necessary to move forward with the Obama administration’s plans to create state health care insurance exchanges throughout the country. However, Florida remains one of five states that has not made any effort to take part in the reform

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Supporters are slowly trickling into Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s election night party at the Hotel Saranac, into a small

Well, not quite anymore. A new Hays Research poll from Alaska has Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) popularity falling precipitously from the mid-80s to only 54 percent,

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) threatened to hold a midnight vote yesterday to proceed to long-delayed legislation extending unemployment insurance

Potential Republican 2012 presidential candidate Jon Huntsman appeared in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “Good Morning America” on

I mentioned in April that CIA luminary Phil Mudd was going to become undersecretary of Homeland Security for intelligence, but Jeff Stein scoops the world and

It’s no mystery that some Democrats are hoping to extend emergency unemployment benefits even further into next year -- both to acknowledge a jobless rate

The financial bailout bill failed in the House when no one -- not the president, congressional leader or vote counter -- had the influence to save it. What would LBJ have done?

For environmentalists hoping that the new Democratic margins in Congress might lead to the return of a decades-old moratorium on offshore oil drilling -- you

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration

State Department officials have been assuring reporters for the last week that by January, more than 1,000 diplomats, development workers and other U.S.

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced on Wednesday that he would not sign a controversial marriage pledge by Iowa’s The Family Leader. Pawlenty said, “I prefer to choose my own words,” in response to the pledge which has come under fire for references to slavery , its opposition to same-sex marriage, a ban on pornography and an insinuation that being gay or lesbian is a choice . Fellow presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed on while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have criticized the pledge.

Real quick before the military commissions hearings begin: Laura Rozen has a detailed post about why Vice President Joe Biden’s we will not prevent line about

Over at the Sunlight Foundation, co-founder Ellen Miller provides more reasons to fret about the departure of White House ethics czar Norman Eisen, whose