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A Pew Hispanic Center study released today provides hard numbers to the debate about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship for children born to illegal

With the House reconvened in a special session to pass a crucial state aid bill yesterday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) took to the floor to deliver a rambling

Via Brian Faughnan, here’s former Rep. J.D. Hayworth testing the waters for a 2010 challenge to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). There is something you can do right

Equating today’s rising credit card rates to usury, several House Democrats today announced plans to introduce legislation capping credit card rates at 16

Jason Wu Trujillo, UVA Law’s Senior Assistant Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, has emailed TWI about Marcus Epstein’s law school plans. Mr. Epstein is

Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as wrong a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to

In a reversal vote Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to nix ethanol subsidies, much to the dismay of federal lawmakers who advocate for farmers and ethanol producers.

When I was at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot I met Carl Swensson, an activist from Georgia who was hustling to get people from all 50 states to form citizen

In 2007, Gen. David Petraeus, then the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, testified to Congress about how he envisioned the war ending. It turned out that he had

Guess that historic first vote on single-payer health coverage won’t happen this year after all. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today withdrew his

President Obama’s 2012 campaign has a new senior adviser — and he is a former lobbyist for the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the environmental group Friends of the Earth . The campaign hired Broderick Johnson of the lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP, which lobbied on behalf of TransCanada, the owners of the proposed pipeline.

“My claim status says my claim is being reviewed, yet no one can tell me when or what stage it is in. If there are 45,000 claims in this stage am I number 15 or 41,000 in the line? one claimant wrote to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility.

Less than two weeks after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) became the first Senate Democrat to announce her opposition to the labor-friendly Employee Free Choice

Former New Mexico Republican Gov.

Obama doesn’t care what Arianna Huffington thinks of his decor. Hillary Clinton visits a statue of Bill in Kosovo. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown disagree on

Workers protest for the extension of the TANF Emergency Fund. (Flickr/JobsWithJustice)

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) just agreed to postpone committee votes on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Deputy Attorney

A local news channel in Atlanta reports that three Teach for America instructors confessed to participating in the district-wide cheating scandal that involved

The Senate will make a procedural vote today on the defense authorization bill, but how the vote goes will likely have major implications for the DREAM Act

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he stop sending Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia. Some