Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is essentially tied with her likely 2014 Democratic challenger, businessman Jim Graves, according to a new poll released by his campaign Monday.

In the survey conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP), Graves, who nearly defeated Bachmann last year, has a slight edge of 47 percent to...

Hillary Clinton's campaign finished paying off a $5.4 million debt owed to Mark Penn's political consulting firm only in January 2013. The sum was left over from her suspended 2008 campaign, for which Penn was the chief strategist.

But if Clinton runs in 2016, Penn is extremely unlikely...

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) started running ads Thursday on Twin Cities television, touting House passage of her bill to repeal Obamacare -- just under a year and a half from her reelection bid.

"Great news!" Bachmann says in the ad. "The U.S. House just passed my bill to repeal Obamacare."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday that she will fight legislation in the Senate that would roll back key parts of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, just a week after the package made it out of the House Financial Services Committee with support from fellow Democrats.

"Wall Street’s...

The New York Times reported that President Barack Obama has spoken privately of "going Bulworth," a reference to the 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a California Senate candidate who becomes unusually honest after having run as a centrist Democrat.

"Probably every president says that from time to...

The New York Times reported that President Barack Obama has spoken privately of "going Bulworth," a reference to the 1998 Warren Beatty movie about a California Senate candidate who becomes unusually honest after having run as a centrist Democrat.

"Probably every president says that from time to...

A visibly infuriated Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) tore into Attorney General Eric Holder after his time expired in a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. The exchange, about the FBI's investigation into deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, marked a low point in congressional civility.

Gohmert alleged that...

Amid an unprecedented effort by the Obama administration to crack down on leaks of classified information, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said he was unsure how many times he'd signed off on subpoenas to seize reporter records.

"I'm not sure how many of those cases that I...

While fellow Republicans are making comparisons to Watergate and even calling for impeachment, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) declined to back that spin on the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi attacks.

"I don't think this is the equivalent of Watergate or Iran-Contra," he told MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Tuesday. "There's...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that President Barack Obama is part of a "cover-up" over the nature of the terrorist attack on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.

Obama administration officials "lied," Cheney told Sean Hannity on Fox News. "They claimed it was because...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised the stakes of her quest to find out why a single Wall Street bank has not been prosecuted in the aftermath of the financial crisis Tuesday, sending a letter to the heads of three federal agencies.

Warren, a member of the Senate Committee...

The IRS' Friday admission that it disproportionately scrutinized groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status has led some politicians to lay the blame on the Obama administration. However, a report in the Wall Street Journal Sunday said...

The IRS' Friday admission that it disproportionately scrutinized groups with the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status has led some politicians to lay the blame on the Obama administration. However, a report in the Wall Street Journal Sunday said...

Jason Richwine, the co-author of a Heritage Foundation report on immigration who came under fire this week for arguing in his Harvard dissertation that Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. have substantially lower IQs than whites, resigned Friday.

"Jason Richwine let us know he’s decided to resign...

The American Future Fund, a pro-Republican nonprofit, is running an ad defending Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), whose approval ratings dropped precipitously following her vote against expanded gun background checks. A ThinkProgress investigation found that many of the apparently ordinary citizens speaking in the ad...

American Crossroads, a super PAC conceived by Karl Rove, attacked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a web video released Friday.

The minute-and-a-half video posted on the PAC's website splices testimony on Wednesday from Gregory Hicks, the former deputy chief of Mission in Tripoli, with Clinton's words...

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a gun control advocacy group backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced a new television ad Thursday thanking Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) for co-sponsoring an amendment to expand background checks.

"Washington likes to argue," a female narrator says. "Senator Pat Toomey wants to get...

One of Sen. Mike Lee's (R-Utah) 23 amendments to the Senate immigration bill being considered this week would allow undocumented immigrants to be lawfully employed -- but only only as domestic workers.

Lee's amendment would exempt undocumented immigrants working as "cooks, waiters, butlers, housekeepers, governessess, maids,...

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who became a Democrat after serving as the state's Republican governor and is considering a challenge to Gov. Rick Scott (R) in 2014, announced on Facebook Wednesday that he supports gay marriage.

"Some great news: On Tuesday, Delaware became the 11th state to...

WASHINGTON -- Months-long wrangling over the attacks at an American outpost in Benghazi, Libya, was given a new platform Wednesday when House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) convened a hearing for State Department "whistleblowers" to offer additional insight into what exactly transpired at the U.S. mission there on Sept....