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President-elect Barack Obama has said he will take a different approach to health, environment and energy agencies.

Five Republican presidential candidates hammered on regulations, taxes and President Obama at a manufacturing forum Tuesday in Iowa, calling for major cuts to those areas and aiming to pin the worldwide economic downturn on the president. Newt Gingrich Former U.S

Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) The governing board of the South Florida Water Management District yesterday voted unanimously to move forward with eight public/private partnership projects to store water in the Northern Everglades. The projects, which are known as dispersed water management, involve enlisting private landowners in solutions to help restore the Everglades and its tributaries. The district describes (.pdf) it simply as “shallow water distributed across parcel landscapes using relatively simple structures.” Several state conservation groups have been vocal advocates of the projects, which they say could provide benefits to both water storage and water quality

Colorado Fourth-District Republican US Rep Cory Gardner is filling his campaign coffers for 2012 as he did in 2010 by leaning heavily on oil-and-gas industry donors . He raked in $370,000 in the quarter that just ended. That’s the most of any candidate for federal office from Colorado and topped his take in previous quarters by roughly $100,000.

After nearly a day’s worth of radio silence from Langley about the suicide bombing at a CIA outpost in eastern Afghanistan, this statement comes from Director

U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen of Minnesota is listed as a member of a controversial corporate and state legislative collaboration called the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), according to recently leaked documents .

In the RNC’s latest fundraising appeal, a website called nomorefrankens.com, the group makes a number of claims about the contested 2008 Minnesota Senate race

All day, we’re re-running our favorite blog posts of the last year. This post was originally published on Aug. 3, 2009. One of my friends in the small

It’s become conventional wisdom in Washington that beards are a detriment for most politicians on the campaign trail. In 2006, The Hill put it this

My friend Eli Lake reports for The Washington Times that Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intend to question CIA director-designate

The Congressional deficit reduction “supercommittee” that has been charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving could save billions by eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for oil and gas companies, which advocacy groups from across the ideological spectrum support, but energy companies are battling to keep their good deals. In an online campaign launched last week, Taxpayers for Common Sense urged voters to lobby supercommittee members against giving subsidies to energy companies

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will hold two town hall meetings Tuesday in eastern Iowa and four more the following week in central and

Joseph Farah, who sparred over the birther conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column -- a promo for

Here’s one thing that bears mentioning now that it appears Leon Panetta is President-elect Barack Obama’s to head the CIA. Given the worries about whether John

A bipartisan group of more than 120 judges, prosecutors, diplomats, former members of Congress and high-level military and government officials yesterday

Amid news that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling clinic performs therapy aimed at “curing” gays and lesbians of homosexuality, the nation’s largest “ex-gay” organization, Exodus International, announced it will hold its annual conference, “Exodus Freedom,” in St. Paul next year.

Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) are still fine-tuning the details of a compromise on oil spill liability they hope will be incorporated

For years, Republicans have discussed seriously targeting Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.). Tonight, after nearly three decades of of service in Congress, a

The unintended consequences of taxing tobacco to fund SCHIP could mean that SCHIP-eligible kids need the care worse than before.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell just put out the following statement about Bush’s updated executive order governing the intelligence

I have already seen a few emails and advisories going around, blaring that Democrats are planning massive tax hikes for Jan. 1! The Chamber of Commerce, for

<p>I used to wake up every morning and worry about Jim Traficant.</p> <p>Traficant was the congressman from Youngstown, Ohio, and