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The strategy to rally all the Senate Democrats behind a public plan hit a brick wall on Tuesday, after Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) announced his intention to

How’s this for absurdity? Citing unnamed Democratic officials, The Associated Press reports that there’s pressure on Congress to drop the executive pay

It’s no mystery that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been opposed to some of the very bank reforms proposed by President Obama yesterday (which explains why

In this corner: President Obama, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, (reluctantly) the service secretary and chief of staff of the Air Force, this very smart Air

The powerful special envoy fielded questions about what the Obama administration considers success in Afghanistan.

The Foundation for Government Accountability logo (Pic via Facebook ) The Foundation for Government Accountability debuted a new website today — an online database of the salaries of public employees: FloridaOpenGov.org . The website is almost a replica of a project by Foundation President Tarren Bragdon at his last place of employment, the Maine Heritage Policy Center. According to a press release from the organization , the website is a compilation of “about 35 million public records detailing nearly $1.4 trillion in spending and payroll by state, county, municipality and school.” Here is some of the data included in the database, according to the release: County government payroll (FY 1997-2011) Local K-12 public education payroll (FY 1997-2011) State government payroll (1995-2010) Local government spending (FY 1993-2010) State vendor payments (FY 2005-2011) Steve Mistler of the Sun-Journal wrote in September 2010 that Bragdon’s group in Maine “fed the public’s oft-held suspicion that government is too wasteful published the names and salaries of every state employee on maineopengov.org, and linked it to the center’s homepage.” Critics called the website a “cynical hijacking of transparency to foster public mistrust in government,” Mistler reported

Well, at least one banking executive is personally feeling the pain of the foreclosure crisis: Wells Fargo has fired a top employee who moved into a foreclosed

The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) may have spent the last eight years pushing for the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage that Minnesotans will vote on in November, but since its founding, the group has fought to uphold antiquated laws against homosexuality and sodomy that were often used against LGBT people. Formed as Coalition of Concerned Christians The Minnesota Family Council got its start in 1982 as a group of conservative Christians concerned that laws criminalizing gays and lesbians would be overturned. “I believe we need to be true to our roots and let who we are grow out of that.

The White House announced today that, in addition to President Obama visiting New Orleans on Aug. 29, a number of administration officials will travel

Peter Beinart is bullish on President Obama: The larger truth is this: Even as Republicans claim political momentum, the country is in the midst of a major

Sen. John McCain, first debate: I know the veterans. I know them well. And I know that they know that I’ll take care of them. And I’ve been proud of

The situation of women, blacks and Hispanic workers who are employed, unemployed or looking for jobs in the U.S. merits a closer look. The U.S. Bureau of Labor

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A reader over at TPM speculates: Whatever you think of the Palin speech, whether it was cynical or alienating to anyone outside the base, it was solidly

The office of Gov. Rick Scott will now be charging for public records requests, under a new policy announced today.

Today, as expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise U.S. interest rates, instead holding the target federal funds rate steady between 0.0

The McCain campaign concedes that Sen. John McCain isn’t going to win Philadelphia, according to TWI correspondent Anna Marie Cox. But if he can win in the

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) asked a great question: Sure, it would be better for Afghan farmers to grow wheat instead of poppies, a crop that heavily funds the

Reports today that the U.S. military is calling for an overhaul of the Bagram prison in Afghanistan follow weeks of little-reported protests by prisoners there,

Here’s a curious piece of the health reform speech delivered today by Christina Romer, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the Center for

The Justice Department filed another suit Monday against Arizona for immigration actions by its officials, claiming a network of community colleges engaged in

Markos Moulitsas has started to leak the results of a comprehensive Research 2000 poll of Republicans, asking for their take on a series of hot-button issues.

As lawmakers mull another economic stimulus, green industries could be key. With the economy in turmoil and oil prices in dramatic flux, many experts argue the best way to tackle these problems is an enormous federal investment in renewable technologies.