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I talked briefly with Rick Scott, the chairman (and major funder) of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, after he gave a short talk at the Heritage Foundation

President George W. Bush isn’t likely to pre-emptively pardon himself and his senior cabinet and other officials who authorized the use of torture in

The fight that neighborhoods in Cleveland are launching against banks that dump vacant and vandalized foreclosed homes back onto the real estate market received

During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing to discuss newly proposed climate change legislation from Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and

My friend Richard Smith at VetVoice has a great catch from George W. Bush’s exit interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz after getting shoes thrown at him in

State Senator Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, is undaunted. As schools were being systematically defunded by the Legislature during this last session, he floated the idea of a tax increase to fund schools. Then he announced plans to take it before the voters with an initiative this November.

The American Petroleum Institute, the powerful oil and gas industry trade association, is coming out against an amendment sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)

In June, the White House issued a report making the case that health reform -- well beyond a moral and social imperative -- is also vital to the economic health

MARSHALL — The cleanup of the Midwest’s worst oil spill in Calhoun County last July 25 continues a year later, and officials from both Enbridge, the company that owns the pipeline, and the government agencies overseeing it say the spill has ‘unique challenges.’ “Capturing and cleaning up this heavy oil is a unique challenge,” said Susan Hedman, Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 director, during a press briefing last week. “No one at the EPA can remember dealing with this much submerged oil in a river.” The news comes on the one year anniversary of the spill.

Last week, the discovery that iPhones and 3G iPads hold onto all locations logged by internal GPS systems sparked an outcry in the technology press and among

A report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, the American Lung Association and the health care consumer group Families USA shows that Medicaid plays a vital role in providing health care to Floridians with chronic illnesses. The report, “Medicaid’s Impact in Florida” (.pdf), states: Tens of thousands of Floridians with serious health care needs rely on Medicaid for their health coverage. There are several reasons why many of these Floridians have Medicaid coverage, which include the nature of the Medicaid program and some of the ways people become eligible for it

GUANTANAMO BAY -- Col. Patrick Parrish, the judge presiding over Omar Khadr’s military commission, gaveled the third day of the proceedings into session. For

The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report

Sen. Barack Obama promised millions of new green jobs and energy independence -- tough goals to meet in the short term.

Rep. Boucher won’t be involved in crafting or shaping the Senate bill (since he is a member of the House), but that doesn’t mean the chamber’s forgotten

As part of an upcoming inside look at the prison at Guantanamo Bay set to air April 5, National Geographic has put together some interesting behind-the-scenes

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), held its third hearing on the financial crisis today, and up to bat

Meek faces an uphill battle in the general election as polls consistently put him behind Republican candidate Marco Rubio and independent candidate Gov. Charlie Crist.

Lawmakers have until midnight to tie up loose ends and implement a stop-gap budget solution. Sessions ran late into the night Wednesday, as lawmakers updated their social media accounts as to what had been settled — and what had not. Several weeks of budget gridlock has ultimately led the Legislature — now in it’s eighth extended week — to consider a one-month spending bill, with retroactive provisions, as a means to stop government shut down

Just so history isn’t rewritten during the current outcry over deficit spending, here’s a recap of the national debt during the reign of the last five

Jeremy Jacobs gets some entertaining bluster out of Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), one of the Empire State’s two remaining Republican members of Congress and

I think Matthew Yglesias and Jonathan Chait pretty effectively pummeled this silly Mike Potemra post about the filibuster, but they missed something.

One of the big surprises of Democratic rule -- perhaps it shouldn’t have been such a surprise -- has been the degree to which Republican opposition has ground

That’s what Laura Rozen is hearing: Controversial defense contractor Blackwater, now known as Xe, is being told that it is likely to win a major contract to do