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In Maine, public interest groups in favor of the DISCLOSE Act are cranking up the pressure this morning on GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe: Watchdog

Gov. Rick Scott (left) with Florida Senate President-Designate Don Gaetz, R-Destin (Pic via flgov.com) A federal judge will hear arguments for and against the state’s controversial new law requiring welfare applicants to be drug tested. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of Luis Lebron over the constitutionality of the law. Lebron is a 35-year old Orlando resident, Navy veteran, full-time student and single father

Today, the House approved the Small Business Jobs Act, a deficit-neutral act to help small businesses grow, access credit, and hire new workers, 237 to 187. The

Jerome Block, Jr., absent since July 28 after records surfaced that he misused a state-issued gas card, returned to Santa Fe Tuesday and said he had a prescription drug addiction but would not resign from his post on the Public Regulation Commission.

If the Senate brings forward a stripped-down bill including a liability compromise, and opens the process to amendments, a minority staffer says it will pass with major Republican support.

...Sort of. While the entire Mideast-centric wing of the foreign-policy community waits to see if the Obama administration will actually offer its own plan

Sarah Palin isn’t a fan of the Politico crew... ...and Michael Steele and Rudy Guiliani defend her after a Politico piece. A N.Y. candidate accuses

TWI has obtained a copy of a discussion draft authored by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), with input from Sen. Olympia Snowe’s (R-Maine) office, that was

Washington experienced an influx of Tea Partiers this past weekend. Not only did Glenn Beck host his Restoring Honor rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial on

A coalition of over 80 HIV/AIDS service organization have sent a letter to Congress seeking increased funding for HIV prevention and care programming in the country. The letter, delivered to top Obama White House officials as well as members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees, calls for millions of dollars in increased spending to combat the epidemic in the U.S. The letter highlights eight areas of federal funding streams, and identifies what the groups say the financial needs in each area are

GUANTANAMO BAY -- After two straight days of absence and a very strange half-day appearance on Thursday, the Office of Military Commissions just confirmed that

The Charleston Gazette runs a story today providing further suggestion that a failed 2008 mining safety bill might have helped prevent last week’s deadly mining

I have a story today on the ever-confusing opt-out process for Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that shares fingerprints collected by

As a general deal, President Barack Obama said Tuesday about Bush administration officials who shaped the post-9/11 interrogation and detention regime, I think that we should be looking forward and not backwards. But it might be hard to determine the difference.

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Nov. 18, 2009. Well-known Israel expert Sarah

A military commission judge has ruled that the types of abusive techniques U.S. interrogators used on a suspected 9-11 conspirator are irrelevant to determining

In an interview with TWI yesterday at the Capitol, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said she is confident that Kenneth Feinberg, who has been charged by the White

The Washington, D.C. based National Organization for Marriage has proven it has no qualms about spending thousands in Iowa’s Senate District 18 to stir the pot on gay marriage. The group also appears to have no qualms about assigning its own talking points to Republican candidate Cindy Golding

Republicans are announcing that their much touted Contract With America, will be unveiled in Virginia on Thursday and they promise that it will present a

In Montana, where the state legislature all but repealed the state’s medical marijuana laws this spring, the court battle has begun –as has the battle for public opinion . The Montana Cannabis Industry Association filed suit to block implementation of the law. Now, the state has responded with court filings of its own.

Though Republican lawmakers remain unswayed by Texas Democrats’ arguments that disenfranchising minority voters should outweigh unsubstantiated fears of polling