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Georgia’s House Republicans have a simple warning for Democratic leaders still hoping to pass health care reform this year: Our state can’t afford it. In a

My CIA sources on Monday were surprised but not so dismayed by the news that Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the agency. Jeff

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding a meeting tomorrow with the relevant committee chairs to discuss the path forward for the chamber’s oil spill

Ever since Mike Isikoff went live with his apparent scoop that former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is going to be Barack Obama’s attorney general, a

At The Washington Post, Lori Montgomery has details on a possible White House stimulus plan comprised entirely of tax cuts: Among the options are a temporary

They’ve been stalled on it for weeks, but tonight the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency

We still don’t know the final results of Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Alaska (absentee votes still need to be counted), but things don’t look good for

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the lobbying arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), has launched a campaign targeting Texas Gov. Rick Perry,

Financial regulatory reform uses multiple complex provisions to force banks to raise capital and lower risk. Today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) offered his

Most Michigan city officials dread almost nothing more than the appointment of an emergency manager to oversee their affairs, especially now that those overseers have virtually limitless authority. But Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is threatening to request one if unions don’t accept his demands. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Thursday that he’ll request a state-appointed emergency financial manager if the city’s 48 employee unions don’t make health care concessions, or if the state does not agree to extend the city’s special allowance for income and utility taxes

Talks of an Obama stimulus package didn’t prevent consumer confidence to plunge, leading to a devastating holiday shopping season for retailers. Sellers are about to fight to get buyers back.

After MTV announced it was declining to run any more ads from controversial anti-abortion rights group Heroic Media, the group went on the offense, claiming that the network was siding with Planned Parenthood. But an MTV exec tells The Florida Independent that such claims are “absolutely not true,” and that the network is still staunch in its decision to discontinue airing Heroic’s ads. # Texas-based Heroic Media has stirred up controversy across the country in recent months, with its “Planned Parenthood aborts African Americans” campaign

The Associated Press has done the dirty work of sorting through more than 5,000 challenged ballots in the Minnesota Senate recount, and its analysis should

Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices.

Not happening before the election, after all: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters that Republican threats to block a vote unless Democrats extend all the

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul will return to Iowa next week with town hall meetings in three cities on the western side of the state

Lindsay Beyerstein has the goods on Dede Scozzafava, the GOP’s luckless candidate in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. In September, Scozzafava’s campaign

Planned protests against the Keystone XL pipeline began this weekend in the nation’s capitol as activists and celebrities staged sit-ins at the White House, resulting in more than 100 of them being arrested. The protests were planned by the group Tar Sands Action . 70 people were arrested on Saturday at the White House, including some prominent figures: “It’s not the easiest thing on earth for law-abiding folk to come risk arrest.

A campaign to discredit the Democratic stimulus package also pokes holes in Republican alternatives.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged questions from a reporter at today’s daily briefing on whether President Obama would push the Environmental