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Provided South Carolina’s GOP can raise enough money to host the coveted first-in-the-South GOP presidential primary, the state will significantly impact which

The count was 56 to 43 to tweak the large health reform bill signed by President Obama on Tuesday. Because the proposal was moving via the reconciliation

Earlier this week, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) told Fox News that he doesn’t support a tax hike to pay for the Afghanistan war until the nation’s jobless rate

Cynthia Quarterman, the regulatory agency administrator, worked as legal counsel for Enbridge Energy, the owner of the burst pipeline.

In an election cycle that looks increasingly like it might be a Republican wave year, Texas would seem like an unlikely place for Democrats to go looking for

Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, reports on his blog that earmarks have declined sharply, down 17 percent in volume and 27 percent

The GOP’s Pledge to America is pretty brief when it comes to immigration issues: It advocates control of the border, enforcement of immigration laws and

If Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election, will that victory undermine his political future? What a stupid question, you might be thinking. I can’t

Yesterday, D.C. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, presuming the good faith of the government, ruled that the Pentagon and CIA don’t have to turn over

Sen. John McCain’s new mortgage plan -- which may actually be old, as TWI’s Mary Kane notes -- drew a stinging rebuke on Wednesday afternoon from the Obama

<p>With gas prices rising and home values falling, Sen. John McCain sought to assuage voters’ economic worries in a speech in Pittsburgh today. Most major

Sen. Barack Obama hit one swing state on Election Day, skipping across the Illinois-Indiana border to a union hall in Indianapolis. Indiana was a George W. Bush

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Fueled by their congressional victories in 2006, House Democratic leaders moved bills on renewable energy, health insurance for children and an economic stimulus package -- only to run into a wall of GOP opposition in the Senate and presidential vetoes. But Obama’s election could tear down that wall.

The vote’s not over yet, but it might as well be. Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine have both voted ’no’ on the DISCLOSE Act,

In July of 2005 I flew to Guantanamo Bay and spent four days on a Potemkin tour of one of the most disgraceful misadventures in U.S. history. I saw bolts dug

By a surprisingly clear 53-47 and 54-46 margins, voters in Oregon have approved ballot measures raising taxes on wealthier residents. It’s the sort of story

So, here’s my understanding of how Indiana law works in a situation like the one Evan Bayh has created. Tuesday -- tomorrow -- is the last day that a candidate

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has canceled his May 16 trip to St. John’s Basilica in Des Moines, an official from the Basilica said this week

DES MOINES — Former U.S. Senator and GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-Penn) stopped at the Iowa Capitol Tuesday morning, after a visit to Ames and an interview on Fox News, to caucus with Iowa Senate Republicans.

This Roger Simon column might not be the silliest thing written about the deathless Henry Louis Gates arrest saga, but it’s interesting for its total ignorance