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PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano spent 15 years testing immigration policies in her border state. She could be another centrist choice for President-elect Obama’s cabinet.

You know whose opinion you should really value when assessing the impending retention of Bob Gates at the Pentagon? Larry Di Rita, the last living Rumsfeld

It’s hardly rare that members of Congress take a break from legislative debate to honor home-town heroes, so it comes as little surprise that Rep. Sue Myrick

As Mike pointed out today, the slow pace of loan modification progress has prompted some lawmakers to once again call for mortgage cramdown legislation that

The Hill reported today that the head of the agency in charge of mine safety, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, has pledged to increase enforcement of

UPDATED: Aug 12, 9:30 a.m. EST, with a correction Of the approximately 15 Republicans who have either announced or hinted a run for president in 2012, the

This week, the American Civil Liberties Union released a letter it received from the Department of Defense confirming that it does not compile statistics on the

This Saturday, hundreds of Miami-ans turned out in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street’s global protest in downtown Miami. The group is also currently occupying a busy part of the city

The briefing, according to a release from the committee, will be entirely closed to the public. Presumably Nidal Malik Hasan’s intercepted communications with

Top New York state lawmakers now appear to be on the path toward a showdown on redistricting reform with whoever is governor next year. Various reform

Lawmakers have voting records on immigration legislation that are inconsistent with a significant portion of their constituents, according to the National

Apologies for continuing to harp on the possible appointment of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano to homeland security chief, but the implications for my home state

The Starbucks Latte Index often gets cited as an indicator of whether consumers are cutting back on discretionary spending - if they give up expensive coffee

When journalist Jose Antonio Vargas confessed to being undocumented in a piece for New York Times Magazine, he stated that he had obtained an Oregon driver’s

The U.S. economy gained 117,000 jobs in the month of July, a net increase driven entirely by the private sector. About 154,000 private sector jobs were created

Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s pick to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, was confirmed handily by the Senate just now by a vote of 57