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As potential challenger after potential challenger decides against challenging her in 2012, Sen. Debbie Stabenow raised $1.5 million in the second quarter of the year and has $4 million on hand for next year’s senatorial election

Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) is working on legislation that would capture federal taxes paid by people and businesses in Detroit and use the money on redevelopment projects. In a Labor Day letter to President Obama, Clarke wrote: First, I would like you to consider supporting a series of federal proposals to create jobs and increase economic growth in and around the City of Detroit: • A Detroit Jobs Trust Fund bill to capture the federal tax revenues collected from persons and entities in the City of Detroit to be invested in local redevelopment efforts for a period of five years.

This article was updated at 3 p.m. to include a link from The Florida Independent. “Grassroots uprising” is how Americans United for Life (AUL) has

After months of sometimes rancorous partisan debate, the Senate Finance Committee began its debate this morning on legislation to overhaul the nation’s

The Senate is expected to pass the House’s health care reconciliation fix this week -- and after the upper chamber’s members return from spring recess, they can

The implosion of would-be Democratic candidate Tamyra D’Ippolito in Indiana looks, in retrospect, totally unsurprising. But there were a solid 20 or 21 hours

House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably

The BBC is reporting that an attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan has left at least 12 people dead, and that the violence occurred during a protest over the recent burning of a Quran in a Florida church.

Under a new accord taking effect on Jan. 1, the Center for American Progress will fold a progressive American Jewish nonprofit organization, the Israel Policy

NDN, formerly called the New Democrat Network, is running Spanish-language ads in Arizona urging Latinos to vote in the midterm elections. Their pitch? Latinos

Erin Simpson makes the good point that Hamid Karzai is being underestimated. This seems difficult to argue with. If the Bush administration had an Afghanistan

Montana recently joined an increasing number of states, including Michigan, in regulating the practice of hydrofracking by requiring disclosure of the chemical used the process, but environmentalists say the rules don’t provide enough protection.

Congressman Tim Walberg says that had GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney been the party’s nominee in 2008, he would never have lost his 7th Congressional District seat to Democrat Mark Schauer. In a piece analyzing the GOP gathering at Mackinac Island this weekend, Politico reports Walberg had this to say on the nominee: “Had Romney been the nominee , I’d be in my third term now instead of my second term,” said Rep

State Rep. Daphen Campbell, D-Miami Shores (Pic by Meredith Geddings, via myfloridahouse.gov ) State Rep. Daphne Campbell, D-Miami Shores, has been inadvertently caught up in the ongoing controversy over the decision by home improvement giant Lowe’s to pull advertising from the TLC show All-American Muslim , a decision made due to pressure from the Tampa-based Florida Family Association

A Maryland House seat long held by Republicans has officially gone Democratic, according to reports. Frank Kratovil, Jr., a Democratic states attorney, claimed

Talk of a Republican-backed recount of a tightly-contested Wisconsin Supreme Court election has been put on hold for now following the revelation that over

Karen Ignagni, head of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the industry lobby, fired back today against the charges that the industry is dead set against health

Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette, D-Denver, today sent a letter to U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., requesting a full hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the controversial topic of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Addressing the annual conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Friday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made clear she was

The grassroots political dream crashed, like so many others, on the shoals of big-bucks ballot-initiative finances. Mark Olmstead, a 19-year-old Colorado voter, was spurred earlier this year by high-profile gay rights advances and increasing popular support for gay rights to try to land an initiative on the ballot in Colorado that would repeal the state’s ban on gay marriage

Update, 1:46 p.m. EST: The House approved Boehner’s resolution, 268-145, and rejected Kucinich’s by a vote of 148-265. --- The U.S. House is currently

Several vigils are being organized in eastern Iowa in response to the Friday night beating of a 19-year-old, who lost his life as a result of his injuries. Marcellus Richard Andrews (Photo: Facebook) Marcellus Richard Andrews was pronounced dead at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City on Sunday. He had been transported unconscious to the facility by helicopter from Waterloo early on Friday morning with severe head trauma.