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<p>Yesterday, on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Joe Lieberman <a title="compared"

Even as the emerging consensus among Washington prognosticators is that Republicans will have a tough political time opposing President Obama’s choice of Sonia

God it feels good to be back in D.C., where I don’t have to worry about getting shot in a Chinook or blown up by a cross-dressing Taliban. It appears, however,

In order to learn more about the mysterious prolonged diapering technique formerly employed by the CIA -- possibly the technique nebulously referred to in the

Faced with huge backlogs in immigration proceedings, Immigration and Customs Services adopted a new policy last week to cancel the deportation of thousands of

Via The Hill, Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), the most centrist Democrat in the Senate, has introduced legislation requiring that any unused funds from the $26.1

The Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees surface coal mining, asked Attorney General Greg Abbott back in August to step in and sue the U.S. Environmental

<p><a href="http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3b95b82c-fa7a-4d8c-b5cb-ebc4a8a8d038&amp;p=1">Leon Wieseltier</a> on the

The powerful conservative nonprofit brought together state legislators and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry to craft model legislation that has gained considerable momentum.

The push is on to dilute the climate change bills moving through Congress, and it’s not coming only from conservatives. Mother Jones’ Kate Sheppard reports

Here’s a rigorously reported piece on the history of the relationship between the United States and Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- as you’ll see from the

A few minutes into the the first ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the subcommittee holding the meeting , had to tell supporters to not applaud any comments. # The DREAM Act — reintroduced this year by Durbin — would grant people who entered the U.S

In September of 1990, when a gallon of gas was $1.16, the Senate took up a measure that would have bumped the average fuel efficiency of new cars to 40

The race to raise funds in Iowa’s 3rd and 4th Congressional Districts are among “10 FEC reports to watch,” according to Politico.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer arrests a suspect in Virginia (Pic via ice.gov) South Florida immigrant advocates will be at the Broward Transistional Center today to take part in a national day of action to protest the deportation of Shamir Ali.

A ban on somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a technique used in some forms of stem cell research, passed the House and Senate floors on Tuesday evening in a pair of higher education budget bills. The bills would prohibit state or federal funding from going toward SCNT stem cell research. The two bills are headed to conference committee, where the two bodies will hash out the parts of the bills that differ

The American Principles Project has just launched ExpelJennings.org, a blog dedicated to ousting Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education via online

UPDATE: April 7, 10:15 a.m. This article was amended for clarification of the cited petitions and updates their signature counts. As Texas-based

A new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and individual consumers have known all

It was a tough day to be Herbert Allison. The Treasury official charged with monitoring the $700 billion Wall Street bailout appeared Thursday before the

Conservative fire-starter John Ziegler, the radio host and producer of the pro-Sarah Palin movie Media Malpractice, got booted from a panel at this weekend’s

Joan Lowy talks to a spokeswoman for Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) about his comment that President Obama’s support for legal abortion made him an enemy of

Beginning next month, many Michigan residents now receiving food stamps will likely lose their benefits as the state begins to look at assets as well as income in determining eligibility. AP reports : Michigan has determined food assistance eligibility based only on income for roughly a decade. A new policy will include a review of certain financial assets starting Oct 1.