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Bart Stupak, the Democrat who retired from the Dist. 1 Congressional seat he held since 1993 this year after facing bipartisan attacks for his vote on federal health care reform , has signed on with the DC law and lobbying group Venable LLP. Politico has the announcement: Venable LLP announced that former Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak, has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in the Legislative and Government Affairs Group.

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The Republicans may have the wolf-hunting vote locked down, but the Obama campaign is burnishing its own frontier credentials with a new video from the fish

The New York Times has written a good profile of the group FreedomWorks, the most successful organizing force in building the Tea Party movement. Like Americans

After prominent Obama administration officials publicly praise the ministers of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Rural Rehabilitation and Development, all of

David Hart has the scoop: The National Organization for Marriage spent more than $100,000 on get-out-the-vote efforts for the failed (yes, really) campaign of

Continuing today’s unexpected surge of birther news, Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.)--the freshman Republican who has introduced legislation that would demand proof

The New York Times’ editorial board weighs in today in favor of Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s (D-N.Y.) proposed legislation to effectively overturn two recent Supreme

An Ohio anti-abortion-rights bill that would outlaw terminating a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat can be detected is gaining momentum, if its newest group of

The rise of left-leaning news sites has inspired conservative-backed online investigative reporting.

That’s what Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post is reporting this morning, having unearthed what purports to be a memo outlining a secret deal cut between the

The New York Times reviews the Fox News and radio host’s stand-up tour. One of Mr. Beck’s favorite rhetorical tactics is a combination of misdirection and

The Miami Herald is reporting that as many as 4,500 students in Miami-Dade may not be returning to state-subsidized after-school programs due to state and federal budget cuts. # The Herald reports : # This year, Miami-Dade County lost more than $13 million in funding for its before- and after-school care programs

The Senate is expected to pass an extension of unemployment insurance on Tuesday, but bureaucratic hurdles could slow the long-awaited disbursement of checks.

Time ‘s Swampland wonders : # Why have Floridians turned so sour on their new Governor? Are they simply taking out their anger at the recession – the state’s unemployment rate still sits at almost 11% – on whomever’s sitting in the Governor’s mansion? Is it because, as Scott’s office insisted in a recent statement, he “wasn’t elected to be most popular” but to make “tough decisions” on slashing state spending, including an almost 8% cut in education?

Just a day after President Obama’s speech at the U.S./Mexico border on immigration reform, Sen.

With only a couple of weeks to go before several 2012 candidates face off in the Ames Straw Poll, the world is about to see who has best balanced the game of Hawkeye State momentum and expectations. These opinions and predictions have been culled from our staff members, additional state political reporters, party activists, academics, elected officials, political consultants and other insiders. While unscientific, the ranks provide insights that cannot be garnered in traditional polling or from any one pundit as to a candidate’s organizational strength in Iowa.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who’s testifying this morning before the House Financial Services Committee on legislation empowering the White House to take

Although Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, says it’s already happened, as of Wednesday, U.S. combat forces will officially be out of Iraqi

It’s tough for the minority party to pass legislation. The first time the GOP tried to prohibit ACORN from federal funding, the measure failed on a party-line

At the Washington, D.C. office of FreedomWorks, the conservative non-profit that has promoted and trained organizers of anti-tax Tea Parties, no one knew what Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) was going to say.

Contrary to last week’s SNL skit, it appears that President George W. Bush is acutely aware that he’s poison to the Republican brand. The proof? Instead of

The right constantly accuses President Obama of being weak on immigration enforcement, but his administration is actually deporting record numbers of illegal

In sharp contrast to the Lieberman, Boehner and Cantor statements is this missile-defense-shield reaction from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who must find issuing