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Most legislators continue to collect their salaries while the state is shutdown, but Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-Minneapolis) is putting his July salary to good use.

Following dismissal of his lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for security measures like mandatory pat-downs, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura told reporters Friday that he hasn’t ruled out a run for higher office.

As if we need another example of the Bush administration’s outward contempt for the legislative branch, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House

FreedomWorks’ campaign to pass school voucher legislation in Pennsylvania has now launched a robocall that allows supporters to connect directly with House

In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will sign into law Monday a bill establishing the Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress, which his administration is calling “a signature piece of Gov.

A conservative PAC aligned with U.S. Rep.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) held a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus yesterday to discuss the fate of energy legislation -- and address

Beginning today, a band of liberal Jews intends to transform the terms of the American debate over Israel -- among the most delicate, controversial and

Several Democratic senators are staging a media stakeout at the U.S. Capitol today to voice their concerns over the role of complicated finance speculation in

As the debate over deep cuts to the state’s per pupil allowance in education funding continues, Greenhills School in Ann Arbor has released a fundraising video in which school officials say the $20,000 per year tuition per student is not enough to keep the school running. The video features students and faculty from the school, where Gov. Rick Snyder sends his daughter, reading from a script and saying that money raised from an annual auction was necessary to keep the school going.

It’s not just residents of Alexandria, Va., who are uncomfortable with the prospect of hosting Guantanamo Bay detainees in their backyards. Some residents of

An interesting revelation from an online reader chat with The Washington Post’s Washington Sketch columnist. My policy in each presidential race is to vote

Government watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch has been engaged in a legal back and forth with Secretary of State Scott Gessler over a campaign finance rule adopted by Secretary of State last spring.

When people from around the state announced their intention to converge on Benton Harbor during the Blossomtime parade to protest the takeover of that city’s government under the new Emergency Manager law that he’d sponsored, state Rep. Al Pscholka (R-Stevensville) dismissed them as hired guns

Gov. Rick Scott signed his budget this afternoon, but not before wielding his “favorite pen” to strike what he said were $615 million in line-item vetoes

Here’s a good post by science writer Merrill Goozner on a new, possibly unworthy early screening test for prostate cancer. In taking down a celebratory

Justin Elliott notices that TheConservatives.com, the Web hub slowly rolled out over 2009 by The Washington Times, appears to be dead. I’ve asked an editor of

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) criticized President Obama and the Democrats this afternoon for failing to pass immigration reform, which Obama said he would take up

Christina Bellantoni obtains audio of a Lincoln Day dinner in Ohio where -- on their way to introducing the party’s U.S. Senate candidate, Rob Portman -- a