Breaking News

Senate banking leaders have wrangled a bipartisan deal over controversial legislation reining in the credit card industry, setting the stage this week for likely passage.

The rumor mill on Capitol Hill has the nation anticipating a federal government shutdown, which could happen in nine days if Democrats and Republicans can’t

U.S. Sen

First appeared February 26, 2008 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said it was a mistake holding a

By a 68-29 margin, the Senate approved a jobs bill today that will provide tax breaks and fund public construction projects. From the AP: The Senate is sending

From The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza: Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today

Last summer, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill helped inspire a series of conferences dedicated to weaning the state off fossil fuels. Solar contractors called for policies that would encourage small-scale installations, like rooftop solar panels

The Awl explains how to vote, partially based on a Daniel Craig picture... ...but you’ll probably just pick the better-looking candidate. You can play

President Barack Obama (Pic by The White House, via Flickr) President Obama sent new free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama to Congress on Monday, a move many Florida Republicans are praising despite reports of potential American job losses and persistent anti-labor violence in Colombia.

Nebraska lawmakers, it seems, only need one bill to accomplish what would take two in Iowa : The legalized killing of abortion providers. The Nebraska legislation was introduced by state Sen.

This Washington Post/ABC News poll is filled with bad news for congressional Democrats, but it also contains one piece of bad news for congressional

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Pensacola (center) (Pic via Facebook) A Wednesday vote by the U.S

Democratic Reps. Heath Shuler (N.C.) and Jim Cooper (Tenn.) will introduce a bill this week that would require each state to create a bipartisan redistricting

Mark Dice, a somewhat well-known 9/11 conspiracy theorists, is launching a campaign against Glenn Beck for his disrespect of the truther movement. Beck’s

In an interview with Senate staff, former Paravant vice president Brian McCracken said that the only reason a company called Paravant ever existed was because

DENVER — As anticipated, President Obama this morning detailed his plan to use an executive order to ease the burden of student loan debt that presently presses down on tens of millions of Americans. Speaking in shirtsleeves and drawing on his own struggles with student debt as a young man, husband and father, Obama told the energized crowd in an event center hall on the downtown university Auraria Campus that he was determined for the foreseeable future to act wherever possible to relieve economic distress in the country without going through the gridlocked Congress.

My friends Jason Talley and Pete Eyre, anarcho-capitalists road-tripping across America, capture some footage from a New Hampshire Tea Party of angry

As of now, Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill has 93 confirmed votes on party lines. Just a few decisive senators remain. Yesterday,

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is clearly excited about her 9-point win over Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in yesterday’s Pennsylvania primary. But is it enough to