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As I will note in a forthcoming piece, Monday is the deadline set by a federal judge for the Obama administration to release a much-anticipated CIA inspector

Rather than taking a fourth cloture vote, the Senate just agreed to start formal debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill by

Lost in the din over Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties today was Health and Human Services Secretary-nominee Kathleen Sebelius’ confirmation

President Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks in Michigan this afternoon touting the potential for battery technologies to jump-start the electric vehicle

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A Department of Energy advisory panel that was criticized by environmentalists for having too many members connected to the oil and gas industry has issued a second report calling for stronger regulation of hydrofracking by state and federal agencies.

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. -- Early last night, when the mood at NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman’s campaign headquarters was a lot lighter than it later

If he wins the Republican nomination for president, you can count on evolution , climate change, The Texas Miracle and a host of other issues becoming interesting to voters when they think about Rick Perry. For now– chasing only Republican votes –his positions on those issues seem pretty safe

The Justice Department released more documents -- or, at least, less-redacted documents -- late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the

Just released from the Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dr. Raj Shah is a leader in the development community, an innovative and results-oriented

Here’s what an anonymous Republican aide told Greg Sargent about the politics of escalation in Afghanistan: “There better be a hell of a compelling reason

While I don’t want to step on my colleagues’ coverage of Eric Holder’s hearings, I’m at the Dirksen building for the joint confirmation hearings of Detp. of

It has been close to four months since Gov. Rick Perry soundly defeated Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison for renomination in the Texas Republican gubernatorial

Via The Hill, here’s House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) telling Fox News yesterday that the extended debate over Democratic priorities (ie, health care

The task force charged with fleshing out President Obama’s ban on torture in interrogations is likely to recommend the creation of small, mixed-agency teams for interviewing the most important terrorist targets.

Speaking of Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security adviser, his speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last night also offered an early

The nation’s unemployment picture might be improving, but the country remains in an enormous jobs hole that will take years to scratch out of. And some House

At this point in the health-reform debate, observers are well aware that the Republican strategy is to delay the vote as long as possible, even if it means

That’s what Rick Hasen, the uber-election lawyer and blogger is predicting. Instead of ruling on Citizens United v. FEC, a case that questions the legitimacy

Kirk Johnson has a piece in Saturday’s New York Times that hints at divisions among conservative groups as to whether to support Judge Joseph L. Tauro’s