You have to wonder what's going on when mortgage foreclosure rates are skyrocketing nationwide: up 42 percent in 2006, compared to 2005, leaving up to two million families in danger of losing their homes.

It's probably not a shock to learn the mortgage lending industry has been spending money...

March 20, 2007 may one day be a date for the history books - a day when leaders in Congress demonstrated serious commitment to public funding of their election campaigns. Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL) has been both a member of the House and Senate and he's seen the...