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Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) becomes, I think, the first member of Congress to join Tea Party activists in pushing back against one of the big narratives of the

Rep. Joe Sestak (D) has defeated Sen. Arlen Specter (D) for his party’s Pennsylvania Senate nomination, while the Democratic candidate won the late Rep. John

Maggie Gallagher Both sides of the debate over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage met at the University of St.

It’ll take some time before Defense Secretary Bob Gates issues his fiscal 2010 budget, capped by the White House at $537 billion, not including the cost of the

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, confirmed earlier this month after a bruising battle with Republicans, has cast her first vote on the court in a case

That’s what Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) is saying now on the Senate floor. Word is that chamber leaders are nearing an agreement to stage the final vote within

In the face of widespread suspicion that health care reform is stalled indefinitely, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters this afternoon that

The oil industry is pushing back against new restrictions on environmental waivers for offshore oil and natural gas projects. In a statement, American

Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren, newly named as an adviser to the White House and Treasury Department on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, made her debut.

If conservatives are lucky, Dijongate will be the nadir of opposition to Barack Obama’s presidency. As far as I can tell, the idea that Americans should take

Too far-fetched for even the likes of Rush Limbaugh to discuss as anything but the punchline to a joke, “birtherism” has gained 9/11 truther-like staying

This morning’s Senate panel hearing on the wide discrepancy between sentencing for crack and powder cocaine-related crimes offered the Obama administration its

It appears that cap-and-trade legislation is turning out to be popular in the states of some conservative Democrats, according to a new poll that Democratic

The New York Times gives high-profile treatment today to efforts in Flint, Mich. to deal with a deluge of abandoned and vacant properties by literally shrinking

Here’s a somewhat surprising result from the new Fox News poll. Asked which president is more responsible for the current state of the economy, only 18

State Democrats introduced legislation Monday aimed at restoring six weeks worth of unemployment insurance cut by the GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year. The legislation was introduced in the House by Rep

Proponents of a renewable energy standard, which would require that a certain percentage of the country’s electricity be produced from sources like wind and

I usually skip the advertisements that Townhall.com sends its readers, from unaffiliated conservative groups that buy their lists. But this one was a doozy.

The Michigan Messenger’s Todd Heywood reports some strong statements from Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) in support of a government-run health insurance plan to

Mark Hosenball gets a hold of a report from a northern California-based fusion center of federal, state and local homeland security and law enforcement

Following deadly mine disasters in the last decade, MSHA’s internal investigators concluded that although the agency made significant mistakes, it was not to blame for the accidents.

Democrats actually have a chance of winning a few races in Texas this year, but to do so, they have to be able to vote. In Harris County, a key county where

Via Rachel Weiner, Joe McGinniss discovers that Sarah Palin is, instead of riding her decked-out book tour bus, cosseted in the luxury of a Gulfstream II