House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has some advice for her Senate counterparts: Try majority rule for a change. Pelosi, in an interview with the Huffington Po...
Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, science, empirical evidence and expert advice struggled to be heard above the din of politics. It's ...
In the harried cleanup that followed the attack on downtown New York on September 11th, managers of the process famously failed to equip workers with ...
Democratic lawmakers from California are hoping that a proposition to legalize marijuana on the November ballot will help drive progressive voter turn...
The Wall Street reform package currently awaiting the return of Congress from the Fourth of July recess is packed with provisions that will remake the...
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Monday that tax cuts for the wealthy shouldn't be offset by revenue increases elsewhere because their purp...
Once President Obama signs Wall Street reform into law, the battle will move off the front pages, but it'll be far from over. Who the president picks ...
Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will file cloture on the Wall Street reform report on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote later this week. On the Senate...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters Tuesday that "a hundred percent of the Republicans on the Appropriations Committee" woul...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent the White House an "open letter" laying out a proposed roadmap to economic recovery, coinciding with the organizatio...
Nearly two years after major banks brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse, triggering a steep economic decline and crisis-levels...
Lobbyists for major banks, insurers, pharmaceutical firms, energy companies and at least one foreign government have been helping organize lavish gath...
An Arizona police officer who spoke out against the state's new draconian immigration law is under investigation related to his statement, Officer Pau...
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) joined the effort to persuade President Obama to appoint Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Bureau in an interv...
Elizabeth Warren is a "terrific candidate" to lead the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and is "very confirmable" for the job, White...
Momentum is building to reform Senate rules that allow silent filibusters and force a 60-vote requirement for virtually any action, interviews with De...
Antiwar Democrats have a rare opportunity to knock down a war funding bill, just days after Wikileaks released more than 90,000 documents confirming t...
So many homes in Las Vegas have been foreclosed upon that banks rarely bother to hang a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn anymore. Instead, visitors i...
Update below.* A high-profile survey funded by anti-Social Security advocates falsely reported that Americans favor raising the age of retirement to ...
A Fox Business report on Tuesday evening made backers of the Volcker Rule nervous that big banks had already found a way to trade taxpayer-backed mone...
Update Below Congress addressed a historic wrong on Wednesday afternoon, replacing it instead with a slightly lesser wrong, when the House voted to r...
