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Monday was a good day for Adam Hasner. He lost his best-funded competitor in the GOP race to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson, and picked up endorsements from three conservative groups: # The Iowa-based American Future Fund PAC , a business-backed group that spent millions supporting GOP candidates in 2010, which singled out Hasner for his fiscal conservatism : Hasner served as a Florida State Representative for four consecutive terms from 2002 until 2010

We owe them more than prayers, Obama said of the miners who died in last week’s explosion. We owe them action.

Immigrants’ List, a federal PAC that backs candidates who support immigration rights, lists Rep.

One frightening opening sentence from The Washington Post: In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico,

For a better picture of the state of the Afghanistan election, I called Akbar Ayazi, the director of Radio Free Afghanistan, a project of the U.S.-funded Radio

Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, wrote a blog post that lists the loopholes lobbyists most want inserted into Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.)

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Pembroke Pines (Pic via Facebook) In an op-ed, Florida congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz writes that the GOP is hoping the economy will fail, giving the GOP an edge against President Obama in the upcoming national election

This morning, I asked whether Sarah Palin’s decision to speak at the Tea Party National Convention -- while (so far) eschewing the much higher-profile

With this week’s delay on the energy and oil spill bill, lawmakers are renewing their push to include a renewable energy mandate in the legislation. Politico

The twenty-three corporations on the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) board are big spenders in Washington, pressuring federal departments like

The conventional wisdom in Washington about the U.S.-Israel spat is well expressed by this Josh Rogin post and this Ben Smith post. Basically, people think the

The Michigan Messenger’s Ed Brayton reports a convoluted tale involving all of the above. Long story short, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) -- whose name you may

A House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday passed a FY 2011 energy and water appropriations bill that includes $25 billion in new authority for federally

The Comptroller of the Currency’s new report on the mortgage market in the fourth quarter of 2009 also sheds light on some of the problems reported by borrowers

<p>Is for machines to stop calling me.</p> <p>Our network site in Michigan is getting into the spirit of giving this holiday season by

Environmentalists have never been too keen about President Obama’s support for nuclear power and natural gas. But those positions got less attention amid the

TIME Magazine has deemed Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Cecile Richards one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world.

A recently released convict describes how the foreclosure crisis changed the economy in prison: lack market prices were suddenly going through the roof. The

Tonight, a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed failed in the Senate, 58 to 38. The vote was technically only one

Going to court may be “the best way” to resolve a dispute over water rights between the U.S. Forest Service and the National Ski Areas Association, according to a former Forest Service ski area permit coordinator.

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), who promised in February to scrutinize the Obama budget proposal “line by line” for any potential cuts, gave his staff some

A classic example of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s interview style here, as she eggs on Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to demand the resignation of House Speaker