Marking up budget legislation can be a brutal affair, often beginning early and lasting long into the night. But buried within the hours of debate...
Lester Feder | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics
Though the Senator called for bipartisanship, he paradoxically encouraged conservative commentators to keep launching smear campaigns against the health care provision.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
On Monday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) got in some trouble for saying that AIG executives should resign or "commit suicide." On Tuesday he clarified,...
AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Sen. Charles Grassley wants AIG executives to apologize for the collapse of the insurance giant _ but said Tuesday that "obvio...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics
How is it possible to disprove anything more thoroughly than Supply Side economics, and all its attendant Laissez Faire excesses, have been disproved,...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media
MSNBC's gone gaga over Twitter of late, even creating a page at MSNBC.com that aggregates its anchors' tweets. So it was no surprise when, at the end...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is vowing a rapid push on health reform this year, telling reporters yesterday that he would intro...
Ari Herzog | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media
About half a dozen members of Congress (from both political parties) thumbed their iPhones and BlackBerries and twittered while President Obama spoke about the economy and technology.
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy
Jon Stewart launched a new segment last night about former Vice President Dick Cheney called "Why Are You Such A Dick?" David Letterman, on the other ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics
Democrats are planning to aggressively target vulnerable Republican Senators on the stimulus package passed by the House Wednesday night without any G...
Politico | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
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HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** Barack Obama's treasury secretary appointee apologized on Wednesday for failing to pay a portion of his income taxes, say...
Senate Guru | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
Just twelve days into 2009, we already have four Senate Republican retirements, including two in the last week. And there may still be more to come.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
More signs have emerged that Eric Holder's nomination for Attorney General will face a bitter committee fight as Republican Senators on Thursday criti...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
Now this is just sad. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has long led the conservative forces of his state, has been denied his customary pos...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics