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Fortune has a great story up: The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission requested that Warren Buffett, the head of investment giant Berkshire Hathaway, come

CHICAGO, Ill. -- Unlike energized Sen. Barack Obama supporters and volunteers, many campaign professionals here are openly exhausted. Traveling aides told me

NASHVILLE -- Former congressman Tom Tancredo is the only former federal officeholder working the rooms at the National Tea Party Convention, and he followed up

How seriously do Washington policymakers view current economic troubles? It has taken just days for congressional Democrats to agree with their GOP colleagues

Extremely relieving news for a Monday morning: An Iranian appeals court has reduced the eight-year jail sentence for Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi

Former Reagan administration economic adviser Martin Feldstein today makes the case -- oft-mentioned in conservative circles -- that the Democrats’ proposal to

Several national organizations have released statements about the immigration-enforcement bills that failed in the Florida legislature this session. # The National Immigration Forum said in a statement released on Monday : # Friday was a victory for Florida’s economy, businesses, tourists, and immigrants. Florida’s heritage as a state welcoming to immigrants and visitors from around the world has been preserved # The release commends GOP Sen

In Alabama, it’s not enough that the United States has filed suit to stop the nation’s strictest immigration law from going into effect, 16 other nations

A terrifying headline from the NRCC, blasting Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.): Harry Teague Stumps for Change He Doesn’t Believe In: Teague Dismissed Climate

As the dust settles around the State Capitol, a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to get a Texas driver’s license has emerged as another conservative win

Could it be fatigue, stonewalling or just symptom of a lame-duck administration that White House press secretary Dana Perino -- usually well versed in the

With Sen. Barack Obama vacationing in Hawaii, Sen. John McCain now has an opportunity -- one that will not likely come again before the November general

One of the reasons Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and his anonymous entourage are citing for his withdrawal of his nomination for commerce secretary was the Obama

The upshot of the news that Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden--son of the vice president--won’t run for the state’s open Senate seat is that Rep. Mike Castle

Noting The Iowa Independent’s report on the Iowa Democratic Party’s and U.S. Rep.

File this in the unsurprising news category, but today the president of FreedomWorks -- who’s still part of a lawsuit against Medicare -- backed the effort to

For the first time, President Obama today threw his support behind the marathon push to grant the residents of the nation’s capitol a voting representative in

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduces his bill to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell today. As I write, he’s giving a presser that (alas) I was unable to attend.

Recent reports by the St. Petersburg Times and the Tallahassee Democrat reveal that the billionaire Koch brothers have very close ties to Florida’s public university system.

Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty have signed on to the Susan B. Anthony List’s 2012 Pro-life Presidential Leadership Pledge