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The push to preempt Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) as a potential running mate for Sen. Barack Obama is growing today. TPM covers a swift spike in membership for

RNC officials support reform, but worry whether states will be able to comply with the new guidelines and whether avoiding winner-takes-all primaries might privilege grassroots candidates.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (Pic by US Mission Geneva, via Flickr) The anti-abortion group Kansans for Life is taking aim at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary and former Kansas Gov

It seems that the Goldman Sachs executives testifying before Congress this week didn’t do a very good job convincing the powers that be that their investment

If I can say something that isn’t about Gaza for a minute, Jeff Stein at CQ has a great piece about how Barack Obama can’t find someone to become CIA director

I wrote today about the problems inherent with ad-hoc relationships between civilians and military officers during wartime, but I confess I didn’t think about

While it’s no surprise that President Clinton’s former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger and other traditionally Democratic high-caliber lawyers and scholars

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry convened this morning to consider Sen. Patrick Leahy’s

As House lawmakers continue to debate the Democrats’ climate change bill this week, we’re certain to hear some curious arguments coming from Congress’ global

This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of

Earlier this week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute posted a set of documents (PDF) it obtained via the Freedom of Information Act that it’s touting as

Via Nick Sabloff, this is the sort of media moment that would slow down the schedule of an ordinary pundit. But Meghan McCain’s, err, expertise, has never

John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism, intelligence and homeland security adviser, is probably the foremost advocate of the proposition that

Inside the U.S. Capitol (Pic by ThatMakesThree, via Flickr) A diverse group of organizations have rejected the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2011, recently passed by the U.S.

In my story on the surprisingly fractious GOP primary for the right to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer (R-Calif.), I mentioned that backers of Carly Fiorina had

President-elect Obama has said that energy will be a top priority for his administration in its first 100 days -- hinting that it will come second only to the

Don’t know who Ray Mabus is? I don’t blame you. He’s a former Mississippi governor whom President Obama nominated last week to become secretary of the Navy. If

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Bush administration struck a secret deal with the European Union that could open the door for foreign ownership of liquefied natural gas terminals and other dangerous chemical and energy facilities.

The GOP presidential forum Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) will host in Columbia, S.C., on Labor Day will be co-hosted by the original founding chair of the National