Super PACs Make Major Shift
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday night Indiana conservative upstart Richard Mourdock defeated 36-year incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary battle that featu...
WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday night Indiana conservative upstart Richard Mourdock defeated 36-year incumbent Sen. Dick Lugar in a primary battle that featu...
Los Angeles Times | Jean Merl | Posted 04.05.2012
Rep. Howard Berman, who is locked in a pitched reelection battle with fellow liberal Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman, likes to say he can work with Repub...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.11.2011
WASHINGTON -- On August 4, Senate leaders announced a "breakthrough" in negotiations over three trade deals currently pending before Congress that now...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 10.04.2011
WASHINGTON -- In 2004, Hyundai inked one of the best land deals in history. For a mere $12 million, the South Korean conglomerate secured the rights t...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 09.06.2011
WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to bar military aid to Libyan rebels battling Moammar Gadhafi but stopped short of prohibiting funds for U...
Ali Safavi | Posted 06.05.2011
The Iranian regime's nuclear aggression, suppression at home and terrorist support abroad are outracing US policy.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011
Israel and the United States are not one country. Being pro-Israel should not wield so much power that it becomes a principal issue in American elections.
Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no lack of enthusiasm with Democrats in Van Nuys, the San Fernando Valley, the whole of Los Angeles and the rest of California.
Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011
In "Who are the Terrorists," Kenneth Timmerman rehashes absurd tabloid allegations against the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011
By claiming that the hundreds of dedicated peace and human rights activists are supporters of terrorism, U.S. Congressmen are mobilizing what could become a major backlash.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011
On July 3, 2010, I received an email from a friend informing me that Congressman Brad Sherman, who is seeking reelection to his 8th term in California...
Allan Gerson | Posted 05.25.2011
The enemy of our enemy should be our friend, but the U.S. State Department persists in keeping the the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the largest Iranian anti-mullah organization, on the List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
News that banks participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program would be allowed to repay $68 billion in government funds has sparked a debate amon...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama administration, far from backing off or restricting TARP, is quietly moving forward a plan to create an even bigger, more permanent TARP.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
-This story has been updated- A leading House Democrat plans to introduce Thursday a provision that would require those banks deemed "too big to fai...
Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, it sounds like a reasonable idea: A proposal granting the White House broad new authority to take over w...
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
On the very day the House was voting on the anti-Goldstone resolution, a far-right Israel group was meeting on the Hill to discuss a far-right, pro-settler agenda.
Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011
The Sportsmanship in Hunting Act would ban the remote shooting of live animals over the Internet and the trophy shooting of exotic mammals held captive inside fenced enclosures.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Toward the end of a long House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Brad Sherman said he'd heard enough about torture a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
In remarks on the House floor Tuesday, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) railed against the Treasury Department's plans to recycle bailout dollars paid bac...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
In his testimony before the Congressional Oversight Panel on April 21, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the government's bank bailout program...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Owning these CNBC hacks: it's not just for cable TV comedians anymore! Via the folks at TPM, here's video of CNBC's Mark Haines, who just cannot imag...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat from California, has been a leading critic of his party leadership's response to the banking crisis. Over the past month...
Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 05.25.2011
Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011
This bailout is nothing more than the biggest bait and switch swindle that has ever been perpetrated on the American taxpayer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.10.2012