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First they delayed the reforms; now they’re trying to expedite them. The House approved legislation today to have its previously passed credit card reforms

Speaking to the point in my last post, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked Blair if his point to Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) about withholding some interrogation

Here’s the statement just issued from the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in response to today’s news that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter

The political wrangling over where Guantanamo Bay detainees are going to go is only getting more complicated -- and stranger -- as the president’s deadline for

Maybe it was the recent Gallup poll showing that more than 62 percent of Americans favor some sort of investigation into alleged Bush administration

With Republican National Committee officials from all fifty states filing into their annual summer meeting today in Kansas City, GOP pollster Whit Ayres has

The explosive inspectors general report released on Friday makes one thing increasingly clear: the Bush White House knew that it was probably breaking the

Blogger Jordan Carmon catches Marco Rubio’s upstart Senate campaign putting together an ad against Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) -- his opponent in the 2010 GOP

Gov. Rick Snyder has endorsed former rival Pete Hoekstra for the GOP nomination for the U.S.

Predictably, it depends on whom you ask. The major corporate players in the spill were BP, which leased the well, Transocean, which operated the rig, and

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No surprise that President Obama’s top economic adviser Larry Summers was among those gathered at today’s White House meeting with credit card executives. But

Mike Madden reports that Randall Terry, the anti-abortion rights activist last seen handing out beer and chicken wings at a press conference on Sonia Sotomayor,

The Washington Post has a great piece today on mining safety. According to the story: Federal regulators have increased their inspections at 89 coal mines

John McCain tells us he’s going to stand up to Vladimir Putin and chase Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell and fight until who-knows-when in Iraq and so

ORLANDO, Fla. -- With all the speculation about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s future on the national stage, remember: she’s got problems back at home. If Palin

For the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, designating land as wilderness is pretty much like breathing. And so when the committee unanimously

I just called the Club for Growth for a reaction to Sen. Arlen Specter’s (?-Pa.) announcement that he is switching to the Democratic Party and found Nachama

The shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., in early January is not blunting calls by North Carolina gun rights advocates for the ability to carry concealed weapons

Defense Secretary Bob Gates walked into the Air Force’s War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama today and explained why he cut the F-22 fighter

Facing one of the worst droughts in its history, many local communities in Texas are setting limits on how much water can be used for natural gas hydrofracking. Bloomberg Businessweek reports : Local water districts, which have authority to allocate water from subterranean aquifers, are adding a water-intensive production method called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to some of the pumping restrictions they’re imposing on farmers and small towns. The city of Grand Prairie in the Barnett Shale in North Texas in August became the first municipality to ban the use of city water for fracking

Attorney General Eric Holder artfully skirts Bush-era legal problems facing the Department of Justice.