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The push to slash billions of dollars for private insurers who cover Medicare patients has been met by relative silence, even from the program’s supporters.

PBS’s Tehran Bureau interviews the son of Green leader Mehdi Kerroubi: 10:00 am EST: Tehran Bureau interview with Hossein Karroubi, opposition leader Mehdi

Last night, after falling in the polls in recent days, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) managed to eke out a win in her primary runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill

Why Obama’s speech on financial reform was so soft on Wall Street bankers. Democrats plan to introduce legislation to check the Citizens United

Elana Schor at Talking Points Memo has a great inauguration interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). She asked him about TWI’s story last week revealing that

Conservative media personality and editor of the blog RedState Erick Erickson wants his readers to send Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a toy

The perennial presidential candidate blogs that his quest to overturn the results of the 2008 election -- which he surely would have won had Barack Obama had to

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings will start June 28. McCain still leads former Rep. J. D. Hayworth in the latest poll of Arizona’s

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Pic by World Economic Forum, via Flickr) The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance will hold hearings today to consider bills to implement three free trade agreements, including the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, mired in controversy since its proposal under the Bush administration

An ugly video of Tea Party protesters, gathered outside the office of Rep. Mary Joe Kilroy (D-Ohio), mocking a pro-health care reform protester -- who sits

About sixty percent of donations to Sarah Palin’s PAC went to consultants instead of candidates or campaigns. Democrats can’t find a GOP co-sponsor for

In a new chapter of the often topsy-turvy story of the Tea Party era, Colorado Democratic US Rep Diana DeGette this week finds herself championing local government rights against Republican efforts to expand federal power. DeGette on Wednesday urged House and Senate appropriations committees staffers to reject legislative stipulations that aim to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using local tax dollars to pay for abortions as part of its employee insurance policies. “Not only would this proposed language undermine the self-governing rights of the people of the District of Columbia, it would deny low-income women access to basic, constitutionally protected, medical services,” DeGette, co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, said in a release.

Here’s how the balloting for the Republican National Committee chair vote works. There are 168 voters: when one man gets 85 votes, he wins. They can choose

A bill to prohibit private health insurers from covering abortion passed the Florida Senate Health Regulations Committee 8 to 4 on Monday. Senate Bill 1414,

I hadn’t watched John Ziegler’s interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin about the mean mainstream media because one of the fringe benefits of the Obama-Biden

A majority of South Carolina Democratic Party’s executive committee voted Thursday night to reject a protest against the results of the state’s Senate primary,

While President Obama’s Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy review gets underway in earnest, several Afghan ministers are on their way to Washington for meetings with

Since 2006, the Food and Drug Administration has ignored its own internal regulation and stopped requiring manufacturers of medical devices – such as

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that the department would extend temporary immigration protections for an additional eighteen months for Haitians currently residing in the United States. # In a press release Napolitano announced the extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti beneficiaries effective July 23, 2011 and for an additional 18 months.