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From The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza: Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today

Zachary Roth has a must-read collection of interviews with constitutional lawyers on whether or not health care reform could withstand a court test. And in a

The latest big fight between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Texas officials sounds a lot like the last one, but with one big difference announced

Last summer, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill helped inspire a series of conferences dedicated to weaning the state off fossil fuels. Solar contractors called for policies that would encourage small-scale installations, like rooftop solar panels

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been pushing the notion that President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal (which he dubs a light-switch tax) will

Every Friday, TWI will highlight the week’s top immigration news, focusing on the issues that affect immigration policy debates in Washington. Here is the first

The Bush administration has no plans to rescind controversial guidelines restricting enrollment in a popular children’s health-care program, despite a

From Walter Pincus’ piece about how the Obama administration considered and rejected placing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in military custody: After Abdulmutallab

The new poll, conducted by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 46 percent of Americans support the health reform bills moving on Capitol Hill,

Not according to J. Gerald Hebert, a former Justice Department lawyer who worked with Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and testified at his 1986 confirmation

This Washington Post/ABC News poll is filled with bad news for congressional Democrats, but it also contains one piece of bad news for congressional

CITIZENLink, a Focus on the Family-affiliated website, features a recent post that praises Florida legislators for accepting $2.5 million a year from the Affordable Care Act to fund the state’s abstinence education programs. # The state’s acceptance of the money has been controversial because state legislators have rejected other funds from the law.

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Pensacola (center) (Pic via Facebook) A Wednesday vote by the U.S

While high-profile, politically charged abortion battles are being waged in the Texas Legislature and Congress, the Texas Attorney General quietly issued a pair

When House Democratic leaders unveiled their $825 billion stimulus wish-list last week, it marked only the beginning of a much longer process to forge the

Democratic Reps. Heath Shuler (N.C.) and Jim Cooper (Tenn.) will introduce a bill this week that would require each state to create a bipartisan redistricting

Mark Dice, a somewhat well-known 9/11 conspiracy theorists, is launching a campaign against Glenn Beck for his disrespect of the truther movement. Beck’s

In an interview with Senate staff, former Paravant vice president Brian McCracken said that the only reason a company called Paravant ever existed was because

TransCanada, owners of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, promised Nebraska state legislators this week to take additional steps to protect environmental safety if the project is approved by the federal government. The Canadian pipeline company made several guarantees to Nebraska lawmakers, including a $100 million bond to ensure adequate funds to clean up after any oil spills, as the state’s legislature considered holding a special session to consider legislation to force the company to change Keystone’s route… In a letter to the Speaker of the Nebraska legislature, Sen.

It’s been an amazing thing: faced with hundreds of pages of documents disclosed last week that explicitly state and thoroughly demonstrate that it’s unknown

Here’s something counterintuitive: the closer a person lives to Washington, D.C., the more likely it is that he or she watched the inauguration on