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The state Senate wrapped up the last of their budget bills yesterday and the House is expected to take up and vote on their remaining bills today, months before the end of the fiscal year for the first time in decades.

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team

Here are a few photos of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman campaigning Monday night. (Photos after the jump).

A federal government shutdown will occur unless a continuing resolution deal is reached in Washington, D.C. for the remainder of fiscal year 2011.

Via Matt Yglesias, al-Qaeda’s leadership continues to sweat the non-demonic nature of President Obama: Al Qaeda’s second-in-command told Muslims not to be

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- The Republican National Committee is running a radio ad in New York’s 23rd Congressional District telling voters that their choice in this

The caucus has a Mormon missionary zeal when it comes to spreading the gospel of states’ rights around the country, one Utah political observer says.

The massive oil spill last summer that contaminated dozens of miles of the Kalamazoo river with crude oil, has resulted in U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-St.

Former Sen. Norm Coleman, chair of a non-profit group that pumped at least $18 million towards conservative candidates or issues in the last election cycle, is joining Mitt Romney’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination as a special advisor, Romney’s campaign said Wednesday. “His advice will be critical as I lay out my vision for improving our economy at home and strengthening our partnerships around the world,” a statement on Romney’s campaign website read

This morning, the Department of Labor reported that weekly initial unemployment insurance claims declined to 457,000, from 468,000 last week. The moving average

The Senate Finance Committee this morning shot down an amendment, offered by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), that would have explicitly prohibited federal funds from

On Friday, Amazon discontinued its affiliation with websites in Connecticut and Arkansas in retaliation to new legislation in both states that attempts to

Thursday was a strange day for devoted Response watchers, after the Austin American-Statesman pointed out Gov. Rick Perry’s prayer rally had removed links to

Assume that the senior officials in the Bush administration acted in good faith from March until August of 2002, when senior officials in Washington were

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As the number of displaced people rises due to the fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

The anti-czar frenzy has faded a bit, despite two Senate hearings on the extremely flimsy controversy. Today, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) wades back in and makes a

Via TPM, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) took to Fox News this morning to plug the anti-health care reform rally -- which she referred to as the Super Bowl of

This is brilliant, and the White House should have done it a long time ago. Now, officially, neither the House nor Senate will vote on how and whether to

The House will shortly begin debating a resolution to denounce a U.N. report into Israeli and Hamas war crimes in last year’s Gaza war co-sponsored by Rep.

More than a year ago, Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill..) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility to