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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

Newsweek reveals a series of newly released documents from the Department of Energy that shows all of the Republican members of the Michigan congressional delegation seeking stimulus funding for projects in the state on the grounds that such spending would create jobs — despite frequently claiming that the stimulus bill created no jobs. The story names Rep

As predicted, the Ames Straw Poll was a 2012 game changer, prompting former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to end his campaign and elevating U.S. Rep.

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.

Because The New York Times is reporting that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is now the Obama administration’s indispensable interlocutor with Afghan

Michelle Malkin, taking umbrage at Matthew Yglesias’s assertion that there aren’t many conservative bloggers with reporting skills (Bullcrap.), suggests the

The Michigan Messenger reports on a state legislature hearing about a proposal to relocate Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish, Mich., maximum-security

TWI’s Spencer Ackerman appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night, discussing the GOP’s mistaken claims -- or, as Spencer puts it, simply lying -- on the

The New York Daily News was embedded with Meghan McCain, who will soon release a book about life as a Republican, at the White House Correspondents Dinner,

Republicans insist voter fraud is rampant. To combat it, they are challenging laws in states that make it easier to vote. But some legal scholars and voting experts worry that this broad-based attack could lead to serious and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the next president.

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.

Poor Rep. John Conyers. The House Judiciary Committee chairman has spent more than a year trying to get Harriet Miers, the former White House counsel, to

One of the most common arguments offered by the State Department and proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline is that the project will be safer than other pipelines because TransCanada has agreed to 57 conditions outside the normal regulations. The Natural Resources Defense Council, which opposes the pipeline, says an analysis of those conditions found that the vast majority of them are identical to the minimum safeguards already written into the law: An analysis of the fifty-seven ‘special conditions’ which the Pipeline and Hazardous Safety Materials Administration (PHMSA) suggested reveals them for what they are – a public relations stunt taken at the public’s expense

America’s embattled hairless self-loving digital exhibitionist congressman, Anthony Weiner, will resign today . Taking nudie snaps of yourself and sending them to Twitter friends– undeniably pathetic but neither illegal nor corrupt– turns out is one of the rare breaches of ethics members of Congress will not tolerate. News gossip site Gawker has been the best source on the scandal and today Gawker writer Adrian Chen lets loose news of the pending resignation with an expert flurry of double entendres we’re not likely to see again for… at least another few months when the next ridiculous celebrity sex scandal breaks

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

McFaul falls well below the radar in terms of staffers, but he holds a portfolio of tremendous importance: the reset button on U.S.-Russian relations. As