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Florida Attorney General Pam won a partial victory in the state’s case challenging the federal health care reform law. Here’s a roundup of reactions the Eleventh Circuit’s decision. # Bondi: # Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi today declared victory in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that forcing Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional

The first number is how much Democrats say their Senate candidate in Massachusetts has raised since sending out an email appeal yesterday from Vicki Kennedy,

Glenn Thrush gets the Republican National Committee, via spokeswoman Katie Wright, to walk a few steps back from the health care survey that suggested Democrats

Jeanne Cummings digs through the RNC’s finance reports and comes out with details that don’t reflect well on Chairman Michael Steele’s spending habits. For

“I’d be OK if there were never any more coal,” retiring Xcel Energy CEO Dick Kelly recently told the non-profit news site MinnPost.com . Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado (where Xcel is the state’s largest electric utility), went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. Dick Kelly “I think the science is pretty solid

The contest between Chris Romer and Michael Hancock for mayor of Denver is getting to the point where Tom Tancredo may need to step in and mediate. Tuesday as former mayor Federico Pena was announcing his endorsement of Chris Romer at a press conference, he and others were interrupted by Hancock supporters, at least one of whom–Kendra Sandoval–was a paid staffer.

Social issues might be taking a back seat to fiscal issues in many states in the lead-up to next week’s elections, but don’t tell that to Iowa. The state’s

This morning, our Minnesota colleague Paul Schmeltzer noted that a conservative attack line that the coverage of Ted Kennedy’s death would be a “Wellstone

Last week, J.P. Morgan announced that it made a first-quarter profit of $3.3 billion on revenue of $28.2 billion, meaning for every dollar of business the bank

It may come a surprise to some that the government has tougher safety standards for Cocoa Puffs than for Marlboros, but under current law, the Food and Drug

Members of the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan agriculture appropriations bill Tuesday as part of a larger appropriations process that will soon be merged with an earlier offering by the U.S. House.

Immigration reform is impossible without some Republican support, but Democrats have an incentive to keep the issue in play anyway. Senate Majority Leader Harry

It really helps to have metrics when stuff like this happens. Yesterday The Wall Street Journal published a story on all of the ways in which Gen. Stanley

The Senate is back to amending Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform proposal today. Here is a list of pending amendments that might come up

And here’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the Afghanistan war, testifying for the first time since his June congressional hearings. He praised an

Ben Smith unearths a classic 11th-hour attack from Republicans against then-Democratic nominee for Congress Parker Griffith.

Zachary Roth has a short write-up on Michael Zak, the amateur historian who wrote the Heroes section of the new GOP.com, which focuses to a confusing degree

We finally had a sense they were listening, one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.

Oil spill claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg marked the one-year anniversary of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility by saying the fund has at least looked at 97 percent of the claims it has received. # In other words, he said, the fund is now “current,” and anyone still calling his process slow or delay-ridden ( a common complaint in the fund’s early days ) “just isn’t looking at the statistics.” # To date, the fund has paid out some $5 billion, including slightly more than $2 billion to Florida — more than any other state. # Of some 131,794 Florida claimants in the fund’s post-emergency phase, 72,446 have received final payments and waived their right to sue BP. Only 4,405 remain under review

An ideological battle drives the debate in Congress, despite poll numbers suggesting Americans see the issue through practical eyes.

Modern presidential campaigns don’t just work the refs. They obsess over the media. Gov. Sarah Palin can’t seem to finish a rally without riffing on her

This seems to have flown mostly under the radar, but on Tuesday, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the sharpest Democratic critics of a public option, told The