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Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who did not vote for the Senate version of financial regulatory reform, not believing the bill strong enough, has indicated that he

Donald Vandergriff is a member emeritus of the counterinsurgency/4th-generation-warfare community. And he has some insightful criticism of my Petraeus

The Joe Lieberman saga has shifted the focus of the health reform debate to a Democratic proposal to extend Medicare to those as young as 55. But the Medicare

Department of Defense officials are expected to sign off as early as this week on a report detailing just how dependent the U.S. military is on rare earth

The same morning President Barack Obama announced he’s running for re-election , Minnesota’s Tim Pawlenty countered with a video rebuttal. Like his previous Hollywood-style offerings, this one combines a cinematic soundtrack with quick-cut editing.

Late last week, a group of eight senators delivered lists of proposed measures to protect and promote coal in the pending climate and energy legislation to the

“It was the humanitarian thing to do,” said Dr. Chris Christensen about recommending cannabis for Cash Hyde. “There was a very high probability of fatality with any course of therapy,” he said about the boy, who was one year old when he was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer.

While politicians and religious leaders have been outspoken on Republican efforts to put a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage on the ballot next year, Friday’s Senate committee hearing included a little-heard-from voice: that of a young, straight, Republican woman who opposes the measure. In testimony lasting under three minutes, Madeline Koch , 24, identifies herself as both Republican and straight before acknowledging that up until three years ago she’d never had a gay friend. But her opposition to the measure, she said, is ideological — focused on future generations — instead of personal or partisan

Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee, slammed Obama administration officials

Three-quarters of Americans support the troop withdrawal from Iraqi cities; Cheney’s in the other quarter. Just because Madoff’s in jail doesn’t mean the

Experts will likely be debating the constellation of factors that led to last year’s financial downturn for years to come, but many conservatives arrived at

Four Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for EPA Administrator Stephen

He’s decidedly anti-trigger. And he’s opposed to health care co-ops. But Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health

As first reported by Steve Aftergood on Monday, the United States’ routine declaration of its nuclear weapons facilities to the United Nation’s atomic watchdog

Livonia Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter will formally file paperwork to run for the GOP nomination for President Friday. Advisers to the guitar-slinging legislator tell Politico he will add his hat to the party race Friday, making him the third sitting member of the U.S. House competing for the nomination

President Obama will return to Minnesota at the end of August to address the national meeting of the American Legion. Obama was in Minnesota on Monday as a part of his jobs tour. Also speaking at the American Legion meeting will be Michele Bachmann, considered in the top tier of Republican presidential candidates vying to defeat Obama

The objections to cap-and-trade legislation have been almost entirely economic: an emissions reduction program, the argument goes, would raise energy costs and

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel Martinez

From today’s White House press briefing: Q Are you still confident that this could be a legitimate election tomorrow? MR. GIBBS: We look forward to