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Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) challenged Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner today to release details of bonuses given to executives of companies that have

Rep. Ed Whitfield (R), who represents Webster County, Ky., where two miners were killed in a roof collapse Wednesday, has posted a statement reacting to the

The National Automobile Dealers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have filed a lawsuit challenging California’s right to set higher automobile

That’s a shocking account about Steve Kappes, then the powerful associate deputy CIA director for operations, provided by The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein in a

It looks unlikely that the next president will prosecute Bush administration officials for potential war crimes, to the frustration of some critics.

After announcing that he would not mount a campaign against Sen. Debbie Stabenow earlier this year, former U.S.

Democrats and Republicans are on the House floor debating the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Kate Sheppard, the great climate reporter for Grist, is

Senate Democrats yesterday unveiled an energy reform proposal that would eliminate roughly $17 billion in federal subsidies to the nation’s largest oil

The Iraqi north is a place where the war hasn’t stopped, and may not even have started in earnest, as Arabs, Kurds and other minorities compete for land and oil

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) used the Senate debate over the defense appropriations bill to urge President Obama to soon explain to the American

The final Hays Research Poll on former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) finds her popularity with Alaskans tumbling just into negative territory; 48 percent of

Recent polls sponsored by the Club for Growth and the Minuteman PAC, which show Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman surging into the lead in the three-way

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota (Pic via Facebook) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released its annual report on the “most corrupt” members of Congress

A report by Physicians for Human Rights released on Monday claims that U.S. physicians and psychologists betrayed ethical standards by collecting data on

It’s hard to imagine now, but it wasn’t all that long ago when it could be hard to find average folks who knew or cared that much about Fannie Mae and Freddie

The Anti-Defamation League is out with a statement shaming Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives for bringing Nazi and Hitler comparisons into the debate on

It turns out residents of Mattoon, Ill., aren’t too happy with the Department of Energy’s plans to can the embattled FutureGen project and replace it with a

A new study out today from the University of North Carolina Center for Community Capital provides more evidence that deregulatory zealots have a lot to answer

Politico has the details of the ongoing meetings between environmentalists and electric utilities. And the prospects for a compromise don’t look good. So far,

In his first public remarks after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253, President Obama reiterated a number of expected

By calling for the end of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, House Democratic leaders have put themselves in the uncomfortable position of

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today called Cash for Clunkers: An Expensive Environmental Fix, which argues that despite its bigger-than-expected

In a move that activists call unnecessary and based on bigotry, Rep. Tom Hooker (R-Byron Center) wants to make sure that Michigan taxpayers do not foot the bill for any gender assignment surgeries Michigan prisoners may need as part of their treatment. Hooker readily admits he knows of no case where a Michigan prisoner has had gender reassignment surgery