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Speaking Thursday on the floor of the House during the debate over HR 358, the Protect Life Act (pdf) , Colorado US Rep Diana DeGette, head of the pro-choice caucus, characterized the discussion as an absurd extension of one that has been going on for fifteen years. She said the bill is being positioned by supporters as a ban on federal funding for abortion but what it really aims to do is make abortions for a large segment of the country effectively illegal.

I noted last week that the push by some Republicans — including, now, Gov. Tim Pawlenty — to review and possibly alter the 14th Amendment to the

Today, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Senate majority leader, sent out a statement blasting a Republican plan to keep all the Bush tax cuts, adding an estimated

A faction of Baltimore church leaders supportive of the Democratic Party, backed by Maryland House Del. Emmett C. Burns, Jr. (D-Baltimore County), have formed a

Joe Miller, now officially Alaska’s Republican candidate for Senate, is another insurgent who fits into a pattern Jesse has identified of politicians shirking

A new law that prohibits the governor from adopting environmental rules that are stronger than federal standards will harm Michigan’s ability to protect the Great Lakes, environmental groups say. This week the state Senate joined the House in approving such legislation .

From a U.S. Central Command press release: The United States government delivered two Bell 412 EP helicopters to the Government of Pakistan today to assist the

After deleting references to climate change from a study on rising sea levels, a Texas environmental regulatory agency has reached a standoff with the

In a hotly anticipated biography about enigmatic Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the brain behind the iPad and iPhone is shown to have a pessimistic view of the

The 2008 Democratic and Libertarian presidential hopeful resurfaces to give a barely audible endorsement to Adam Kokesh, a libertarian activist who’s running

Illegal immigrants can only get driver’s licenses in three states: New Mexico, Utah and Washington. As other states crack down on illegal immigration, the three

Over and over again, the Greek government has stated that the currency trades that Goldman Sachs arranged to allow the Greek government to hide a portion of its

I asked Geoff Morrell, spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, for a reaction to Gates’ victory in the Senate over the F-22 just now. Morrell: Secretary

Former FEMA Administrator Michael Brown (you know, the guy that became a walking metaphor for the Bush administration’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina) is

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he would consider the financial regulatory reform bill over the July 4 Senate recess. He’s back, and he says he is a yes: I’ve

The Washington Independent is partnering with ProPublica to bring you more in-depth coverage of the Gulf oil spill claims process, and we need your

Lost in all the more-troops-or-not-more-troops fallout from the leaked McChrystal strategy review is McChrystal’s own assessment of the subordinate importance

In June, the labor force -- the total number of people either working or looking for work -- was 153.74 million. The number of unemployed people was 14.62

Republicans have whittled away support for the stimulus package.

The Republicans tonight had one last chance to put a wrench in the Democrats’ plans to tweak the Senate health bill via reconciliation. It came in the form of