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Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly getting closer to appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration. That’s

A great catch from The Wall Street Journal: , the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust

The final round of details on the fiscal 2010 defense budget will be released today, but as Colin Clark of DOD Buzz reports, members of Congress are sick of

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) spoke today at the Center for American Progress indicating education policymakers cannot wait for socio-economic conditions to

I look back on this to-be-sure paragraph from my pre-Afghanistan-elections piece about illegitimacy and wonder. While the U.S. official cautioned that a

A new poll finds Americans support Elena Kagan by a similar margin to other recent successful Supreme Court nominees. Michele Flournoy, a potential successor

Not the horse. Here’s the statement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s health subpanel, reacting to reports that

It wasn’t just Republicans leaders who were thrown a curveball today when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties to become a Democrat. Rep. Joe Sestak

After a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for more information on Texas’ new law requiring state-issued photo ID at polling places, the Texas

TWI’s David Weigel made an appearance on MSNBC’s Countdown last night, chatting with Lawrence O’Donnell about all things Palin: her hand scribblings, her

For a man who read the morning paper during a congressional hearing on the Waxman-Markey climate bill last week, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) sure seems to be

As first reported by Firedoglake’s Marcy Wheeler, a federal judge has ruled that the Bush administration illegally wiretapped the defunct Islamic charity

Groups of postal service employees will protest the possible downsizing of the U.S. postal service at rallies all over Florida tomorrow. “Save America’s Postal Service” is hosting rallies (.pdf) at the offices of congressional representatives all over the state.

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Jan. 21, 2009. Elana Schor at Talking Points

Are we really going to go through this again? Immediately after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development finished putting the final touches on a

Remember just a few weeks ago when Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the upper-chamber leaders on health care reform, announced their

Here’s Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) last month, commenting on the possibility that Republicans would filibuster President Obama’s pick to

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once observed that if you can’t solve a problem, enlarge it. In that spirit, take a look at this press conference in

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is back in the spotlight today. He’s scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about his new plan for the government to greatly

This is kind of some back-of-the-envelope troop math, but when I wrote earlier that Obama’s new 17,000-troop increase to Afghanistan was lower than Gen. David

U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern, briefing reporters yesterday in New York City after meetings with representatives from the world’s major economies, said he

All the attention on the energy front today is going to the BP spill, but the Environmental Protection Agency quietly released its long-anticipated analysis of