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The $488-billion for defense was just tacked on to a larger spending bill at the last minute, with no separate vetting by appropriations committees. The lack of oversight leads to increased funding for programs repeatedly criticized by Defense Sec. Robert Gates.

President Obama just fielded questions about the way forward following last night’s election and the huge gains made by Republicans in the House. He refused to

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has a great take on a story making the rounds on the Internet today, a New York Times piece on former Countrywide Financial

Former Washington, D.C., public school chancellor Michelle Rhee hit Tallahassee Wednesday, promoting her tough-on-teachers brand of school reform to the Florida legislature.

One man has been arrested in a Saturday night home invasion on U.S. Rep

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,

On today’s call with reporters, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele took credit for the RNC’s response to a new Democratic National Committee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, which is conducting its own investigation into the CIA and torture,

In his quick-turnaround book Right Now, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is notably less kind to former House candidate Dede Scozzafava

Ohio Governor John Kasich told reporters on Monday he was glad the fuss surrounding the veto referendum to repeal Senate Bill 5 had kept the pressure off the

Though several states, including Michigan, have decided to require natural gas companies to disclose the chemicals they use in hydrofracking, many of those state regs have loopholes in them.

Amid his noticeably robust travel agenda these days, Gov. Rick Perry plans to stop in Colorado later this month to deliver the keynote address at the Western

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

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

“They flew all the way here just to basically say, ‘We’re going back on our word,’” said an attorney briefed on the Tuesday meeting. “The whole entire thing is kind of a puppet show.”

This isn’t going to please Democrats who, privately, describe Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s strategy in Massachusetts as running out the clock.

Below is the full text of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Republican response speech. But I’m struck by this bit: Today in Washington, some are promising that

Pressed by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) on his view of whether the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was illegal, Attorney General Eric