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In June, when the Cash-for-Clunkers program -- which provided a government subsidy to people who traded in older low-mileage vehicles to buy new, supposedly

A five-year-old law restricts Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms ability to share gun trafficking information.

Spencer Kornhaber has a fantastic piece about the Birthers up at the OC Weekly — a lengthy profile of Orly Taitz, the dentist with a degree from an

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My article on the DISCLOSE Act today mentions that Democrats are hoping, yet hardly confident, that a stripped-down version of the bill might do the trick and

Liberal Democrats have insisted the option be included to keep private companies honest, while Republicans have insisted that it be scrapped to ensure the viability of the private marketplace.

Personhood Mississippi has launched a new website to tout its “Yes on 26″ campaign, which aims to drum up publicity for an amendment that would make abortion, and possibly some forms of birth control, illegal in the state. # The website, YesOn26.net , includes a section of endorsements (which are plenty), volunteer and email lists, and several ads for the amendment, including a video entitled “Ronald Reagan endorses Personhood.” # The site also lists the members of the Yes on 26 “Advisory Board,” which is co-chaired by Mississippi Lt

According to the conservative Business and Media Institute, Republican whips are going to give their House colleagues iPod touches to keep everyone on message.

President Obama has just signed the bill extending unemployment benefits into law. Now, the 300,000 jobless workers per week exhausting their 26 weeks of state

Colorado’s top oil and gas regulator and the head of one of the state’s leading industry lobbying groups both say federal legislation compelling disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing would not have prevented the state’s worst cases of groundwater contamination.

While the GOP’s conservative base may be clamoring for more of Sen. John McCain’s red-meat attacks on Sen. Barack Obama -- particularly on Obama’s connection to

An interesting admission in Benjy Sarlin’s interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP’s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who’s been

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrong to cut monitoring for radiation with the nuclear disaster in Japan still unfolding , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said this week.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer (Pic via ice.gov) The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 memo issued by John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (aka ICE).

Staff for the national oil spill commission released preliminary conclusions today regarding the cause of the April 20 Macondo well blowout, which led

Northwestern economist Robert Gordon brings the gloom: belongs to the committee of distinguished economists who officially declared on Sept. 20 that the

After a marathon two-day markup session that vacillated wildly between partisan hostility and bipartisan comity, the education bill to overhaul No Child Left

Robin Reid, a language and literature professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce, is working to set up a safe space for the gay, lesbian and transgender