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Notwithstanding Rep. Louise Slaughter’s (D-N.Y.) impassioned plea, the House this afternoon passed that amendment to alter the Freedom of Information Act and

Via Politico’s Jonathan Martin Sen. John McCain has not taken questions from his traveling press corps since Aug. 13 in Michigan, and the reporters on his

Buried within the guts of a very good New York Times story about problems with the Afghan security forces is word of this effort at rooting out police

The Republican boycott persisted, but the Democratic side of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee sent its landmark climate bill to the full Senate

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- This delightful exchange between Sen. John McCain and a reporter took place aboard the Straight Talk Express bus during the trip from

<p>As the Clinton-Obama duel grinds on, Democratic eyes are turning to those previously underappreciated people known as

Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty announced on Wednesday that he would not sign a controversial marriage pledge by Iowa’s The Family Leader. Pawlenty said, “I prefer to choose my own words,” in response to the pledge which has come under fire for references to slavery , its opposition to same-sex marriage, a ban on pornography and an insinuation that being gay or lesbian is a choice . Fellow presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have signed on while Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have criticized the pledge.

State Department officials have been assuring reporters for the last week that by January, more than 1,000 diplomats, development workers and other U.S.

Asked if Florida should pass an immigration-enforcement law like Georgia’s recently approved H.B. 87, Gov. Rick Scott says the federal government needs to do its job: Secure the border, implement a national immigration policy and create a work visa program that actually works.

I mentioned in April that CIA luminary Phil Mudd was going to become undersecretary of Homeland Security for intelligence, but Jeff Stein scoops the world and

Eric Cantor says he’d support Boehner for House speaker. Obama writes a children’s book. Rahm Emanuel starts polling about a potential Chicago major

Focus on the Family news outlet CitizenLink on Monday posted a dire summary of a recent court ruling that rejected an attempt to protect the identities of donors to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign.

The New York Times has picked up on the Bagram detainee story I wrote about two weeks ago, ratcheting up the pressure on the Obama administration to start

A bit of bad economic news: This morning, the Conference Board announced that consumer confidence, a key indicator of the consumer spending that drives about 60

The African-American singer who rode the Tea Party Express and songs like American Tea Party Anthem to a strange sort of fame has spoken out on Kanye West’s

For those who’ve been wondering whether Congress can really just vent its anger at those $165 million in AIG bonuses by levying a 90 percent tax on the bonuses

If President Obama is drafting an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, and he has already filed a motion to halt military commission trials, does that make

This weekend, the Florida Family Policy Council holds its annual policy awards dinner featuring GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. The group will also feature a list of “special guest participants,” which includes many of the Florida legislators who played a big role in curbing access to abortion in the state this past session

Rep. Bart Gordon becomes the fourth Democratic member of Congress in a month -- the second Blue Dog from Tennessee -- to announce his retirement in 2010. Like

Source: Zroberts, Flickr Minnesota for Marriage, a coalition working to convince Minnesotans to vote for a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, has hit the media saying that their group are “underdogs” in the marriage amendment battle and that they will be greatly outspent. But according to public records, members of the pro-amendment coalition, including the Minnesota Family Council and the Minnesota Catholic Conference, have greatly outspent LGBT groups in the five years of lobbying for the amendment. Minnesota for Marriage claims fundraising disadvantage Each member of the coalition supporting the amendment has claimed underdog status in recent months.

In the end, every Democrat* and eight Republicans voted for cloture on Harold Koh’s nomination for legal adviser to the State Department. The Republicans: Lamar

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based organization responsible for much of the non-partisan data analysis on immigration