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We know that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), burned by voter anger over his coziness with Wall Street, received only $4,250 in

PIMCO is taking Treasury’s money and running.

Although official inflation rates remain low, the two spending categories driving what little inflation exists are food and fuel. New consumer spending numbers

I noticed something odd in Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) floor speech today about conservative pundits, and Politico transcribed it. As evidenced by the hundreds

Does a recessionary economy mean that workers must necessarily accept lower wages? Last week, The Wall Street Journal got a lot of attention for an article

And the first use of Orly Taitz in a 2010 campaign video goes to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), facing a stiff challenge from former congressman/radio host J.D.

... or actually, the pirates’ reprisals might be direct, too: Pirates attacked another cargo ship early Tuesday morning in the Gulf of Aden, continuing a spate

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s hearing on Blackwater/Paravant’s subcontract with Raytheon and the Army to train Afghan security forces has just ended,

At a Heritage Foundation luncheon today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) went off on a bit of a tangent and told conservative bloggers to check out a five-minute

Jan Brewer’s gubernatorial campaign and the Arizona Republican party planned protests this week outside union offices to pressure them to end an economic

Now that former Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) has finally secured the GOP nomination in the state governor’s race, Democrats -- including White House Press Secretary

The ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is hounding the governor even as the media spotlight (temporarily?) flits

President George W. Bush is saying that the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav is far better than the response to Katrina in 2005. The president canceled

If there were a healthy or coherent relationship between civilian and military efforts in war zones or weak states or post-conflict environments, there wouldn’t

On page 30 of the 2004 CIA inspector general report, the CIA’s interrogation guidelines provided for “standard techniques” of interrogation that include,

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) made headlines a few weeks back when he killed the Democrats’ hopes of passing an unemployment benefits extension before the arrival

From Roxana Tiron at The Hill: Federal law enforcement officials have subpoenaed the congressional and campaign offices of Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) to get

Early in today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on President-elect Obama’s Pentagon subcabinet nominees, Michele Flournoy, the undersecretary for

SurveyUSA has the results of an ugly round of South Carolina polling: Based on what you know, should Gov. Mark Sanford remain in office? Remain in office -

Related to our piece today on the silence of Congress even in the face of surging gun violence, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne this morning is asking a

Dave Catanese of Politico reports U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) will likely run for a fourth term in 2012 after losing the 2010 gubernatorial primary