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Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday and talked about the implications of Congress’ cave to the banks on his mortgage cramdown

Party-switching Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) is getting whacked again for his life-long record of supporting Democrats, this time from Tea Party-backed

Sen. John McCain, as everyone knows, loves to say that he has never once, in his whole career, requested nor received a single earmark or pork-barrel project

Immigration Policy Center released a study today contending that new Americans, defined as recent naturalized citizens and U.S.-born children of immigrants

Iowa Senate Democrats have agreed to 50 items within the House Republicans’ omnibus budget bill, Democrat leaders said today, primarily Republicans’ desires for a two-year budget and a $5.99 billion spending cap. Most of the items Democrats have agreed to — or “accepted,” as Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D-Council Bluffs) characterized it — are within education and health and human services. One such comprise is that the universal preschool program will see no change in allowable growth in their budgets for the coming fiscal year.

The Pakistani Army is claiming that it has practically cleared the Taliban out of the Swat Valley. Now comes the real counterinsurgency test: holding the area.

Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat -- here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of

Forget $400 haircuts -- accessorizing the GOP vice presidential nominee requires serious cash. Politico reports that the Republican National Committee

Today, Douglas Elmendorf, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, testified before the Senate Budget Committee on the subject of the Bush tax cuts. If

Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina have won their bids for the GOP nomination in the California gubernatorial and Senate contests, respectively. And Rachel’s hunch

With Congress returning this week, I thought it would be a good time to do a quick overview of what to expect on energy and environmental legislation. The

I am a pro-life conservative, said Carly Fiorina. I believe in the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. I am a fiscal conservative. In other words, I share the conservative values that many Republican voters share, and have been public about that for a very long time.

Following last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Minnesota Democrats are proposing a constitutional amendment to define an individual as a “natural person.” The 2010 ruling gave corporations certain rights as “persons” and allowed them to engage in new levels of political activity. Sen

Within president Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill he announced Thursday in an address to a joint session of Congress, some $55 billion would go directly to

Mustafa Barghouti, a leading voice for a non-violent solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, says the United States can still foster change in the region.

Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope tells Michigan Messenger he has been investigating the allegations that a Lansing medical marijuana clinic, Your Healthy Choice Clinic, is offering inducements for votes — something that would violate state law. Swope says it is not completely clear what the dispensary is offering a free 1/2 gram of pot or a free medible (edible product made with marijuana) for