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There’s at least one person on Capitol Hill who doesn’t think comprehensive immigration reform is dead this year. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said on

President Obama named a dozen faith leaders to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships on Friday, and two of them hail from Minnesota. Leith Anderson of the National Association of Evangelicals, who is also Tim Pawlenty’s pastor, was appointed by Obama, as was fellow Minnesota Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The council, formerly known under President Bush as the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has had a healthy number of Minnesotans under Obama.

A single psychologist pressed for the use of a confinement box in the interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative.

Today’s now-postponed Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Afghanistan was overshadowed by Gen. David Petraeus’s brief but frightening loss of

Most New Mexicans still have a favorable view of former Gov. Gary Johnson, whereas other 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls are all unpopular, according to Public Policy Polling . Johnson has a 44-32 favorability spread, compared with all of the other candidates who have negative favorability ratings in their home state

House Democrats have just reached a compromise on a cash-for-clunkers bill that would provide financial incentives for people to trade in their old gas-guzzlers

A victim of the ongoing federal budget battle, U.S.

This morning, President Obama named three people to the board of the Federal Reserve: Janet Yellen to be vice chairman, and Peter Diamond and Sarah Bloom Raskin

Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses the wealthy suburbs west of Minneapolis, should be competitive. Political strategists have often rated the district a tossup, but Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen has managed to keep the district in Republican hands following the 2008 retirement of moderate Rep.

This Gallup poll, in some ways, is tautology: Republicans are conservative about the role of government, and Democrats are liberal. Members of the GOP believe

Politico has a double-bylined take-out of the conservative movement’s rebellion against Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican nominated for the

The National Republican Congressional Committee is up on the air in South Carolina with an ad not-so-secretly aimed at getting Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) to

Critics see retrenchment on Obama’s pledge to rebalance the foreign policy apparatus away from the military.

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, appearing on NPR’s Weekend Edition , said that while agrees that the federal government has to cut spending, it also has to raise the debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on its loans. A full transcript of the interview follows

Leave aside the fact that Blackwater/Paravant employees subcontracted to train Afghan security forces never received authorization from the U.S. military to

In a conference call with reporters immediately after President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal speech, Defense Secretary Bob Gates said that the withdrawal plan has

As I was reporting out today’s piece on the push against State Department legal adviser-nominee Harold Koh, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) was writing this

Results of a poll commissioned by NPR to analyze 60 House districts that elected Democrats and 10 districts that elected Republicans in 2008 look troubling for

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Over at Economist’s View, Christopher Thornberg offers some ideas for stemming the foreclosure crisis - and while you may not agree with them, I’d rate them all

The Iowa Independent reports that GOP State Rep. Kent Sorenson is pulling his facts about health care reform straight from his email inbox. Sorenson posted a