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If they had been pulling out all the stops and working as hard as possible to get as many nominations as fast possible, said former associate counsel in the Bush White House Rachel Brand, they might have done the same as us.

President Obama’s 2012 Department of Homeland Security budget proposal favors immigration enforcement increases for Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE.

As stated in Article V, Section 7 of the New Mexico Constitution, “when the governor travels outside New Mexico’s borders . . . the lieutenant governor shall act as governor.” Governor Susana Martinez recently told the Albuquerque Journal that she’d like to amend this 1948 amendment in such a way that she would retain all the authority of her office when traveling outside the state

Media snark from Milbank and Pitney. Learning to love from Sanford’s romance. Conyers and Conyers: partners in crime? Pseudo-facts good enough for

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said it was a mistake holding a Valentine’s Day-Eve hearing into whether

Organized labor is continuing the push back against moves by the GOP-dominated state legislature to erode union rights in the state.

Politico’s Jeanne Cummings has a fine analysis of the GOP’s 1993 all over again strategy for opposing President Obama and the Democrats, even if she assumes

In a 200-page complaint filed in federal court Monday, dozens of former government contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan accuse their old employers and

The release of the Fed’s 2004 transcripts and my initial post have ginned up a number of posts and stories -- including ones by Ryan Grim, Yves Smith, Matt

Last week, Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans from Texas, urged the Obama administration to take action against the drug violence

Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, finally put rumors to rest yesterday by confirming that he will not launch a campaign for U.S.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll finds that about half of Americans approve of the way President Obama handled the Gulf oil spill, now that the flow of oil has

Over at Hungry Hungry Hippos. they’ve taken me to task for my post Wednesday on efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with abandoned and vacant properties by

A new piece by the Associated Press examines the increased scrutiny of for-profit schools, which have been subject to whistleblower lawsuits and, in Florida, an attorney general’s investigation. # For-profit schools (familiar names include Kaplan and University of Phoenix, among others) have received a bad rap for what many say are empty promises

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just wrapped a presentation at the Heritage Foundation about how he expected conservative media to attempt discredit the Democrats’

Alexi Giannoulias, a Democratic candidate for an Illinois Senate seat, has a fun new website at 700billionreasons.com. Giannoulias is lobbying for Congress to

With the news that Citibank screens some of its clients for objectionable content -- and applies that screening process to gay-themed businesses -- many LGBT

It’s Time for the US to Declare Victory and Go Home As the old saying goes, “guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Since the signing of

I didn’t see this at yesterday’s big Blackwater hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee, but another reporter friend watched this happen. Code Pink, the

According to a Gallup survey of 170,000 adults nationwide, Minnesota ranks 13th in the nation for Democratic advantage just behind New Jersey and ahead of

With only a handful of exceptions, legislators voted along party lines on Saturday night’s House vote to put a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage on the ballot next fall . Republican Rep