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Although unemployment numbers for the month of February won’t be out until Friday, the administration is already on the political defensive -- never a good

Not to be lost in the Iran shuffle: Greg Sargent reports that Democrats on the House intelligence committee are drafting a bill that would prevent the executive

As new Palestinian institutions and new leaders emerge, demonstrating real performance on security and reform, I expect Israel to respond and work toward a

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Democrats and Republicans traded barbs Monday after Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, declared an end to the Joint Select Committee on Redistricting by preparing to introduce a bill to create a Democratic map. In turn, Republicans said they too would introduce a map to compete with the Democratic version.

Via The Wall Street Journal, here’s the inane argument being tried by Merck, the pharmaceutical giant that defended itself before the Supreme Court this week

In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is urging

I’m getting the usual truckloads of mail attacking my piece on the slow mainstreaming of Birtherism, some of it attacking Janice Okubo of the Hawaii Department

Another day, another overheated statement from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich giving politically dubious marching orders to the Republicans he last led a

After my last post about the Columbia Journalism Review’s post on Friday lamenting that most of the media was missing the story on Obama’s disturbing reliance

It been nearly sixty days since he was first nominated, but the Senate Judiciary Committee has finally voted 17-2 today to send Eric Holder’s nomination for

In spite of a series of amendments from Democrats, the Michigan Senate Wednesday morning approved a two-bill package banning so-called “partial birth abortions.” The Republican-controlled chamber voted 29-8 to approve SB 160 and SB 161. The first bill bans the procedure, while the latter bill creates a two-year felony for those who perform the procedure in violation of the ban. The legislation was passed by the House Wednesday afternoon

Word that a retreat hosted by conservative mega-donors Charles and David Koch is coming to Colorado has spurred activists across the state into action.

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It’s typical for sitting House members to outraise their prospective challengers, especially this far out from Election Day. They have the advantage of

It appears that way. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) summoned members of the doctors lobby to Capitol Hill Wednesday evening for an update on the

Today, the Congressional Oversight Panel -- the independent watchdog that oversees the Obama administration’s Troubled Asset Relief Program -- issued a report

After a legislative year chock full of big accomplishments, The New York Times reports that Democrats are looking to go small in the lead-up to midterm

It looks like BP’s embattled CEO, Tony Hayward, will be stepping down. And he’ll probably be replaced by Robert Dudley, who would be the first American to take

Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag -- who was as involved as anyone with the drafting of the budget outline President Obama rolled out this

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the congressman who shouted you lie during President Obama’s health care address to Congress, was probably the biggest hero at