SAN DIEGO -- A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally ...
WASHINGTON -- A Congressional Research Service report that was reissued Thursday after Republicans complained about it before the elections still find...
The debt ceiling debate is a manufactured crisis. The drive by conservatives to cripple government spending, deregulate whole industries, and emphasize military power over social spending has only made us weaker overseas and at home.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that Senate Republicans applied pressure to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) in September,...
WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth ...
WASHINGTON -- The share of the nation's wealth held by the less affluent half of American households dropped precipitously after the financial crisis,...
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan congressional duo is calling for the American public to be given access to the same information that members of Congress ha...
Were they the least bit interested in exercising any oversight at all into the war that American soldiers are still fighting and dying in -- and that Chinese bond buyers are still providing the cash for -- members of Congress wouldn't have to go very far to find some excellent questions.
The state of the U.S. governmental acquisition process being what it is, namely overwhelmed and under resourced, it has miles to go before we can sleep comfortably about U.S. tax dollars being used wisely.
WASHINGTON -- The former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay is suing the Library of Congress for firing him after he wrote opinion columns in...
Does U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have the legal authority to move forward with a proposal that allows states to bypass school performance ...
The costs of overseas trips taken by Senators and their staffers jumped by about 20 percent last year, reaching an all-time high of more than $5 milli...
The Senate's most outspoken apologist for the oil industry is at it again. Sen. Mary Landrieu, recently declared that eliminating federal subsidies to the major oil companies would be a gross injustice.
Congressional reports on foreign travel are essentially useless for determining where Members went, how much was spent and who traveled with the lawma...
This week, the FBI arrested 25-year old James O'Keefe and three other men, charging them with plotting to tamper with phones in the New Orleans office...
Critics across the political spectrum have lambasted the Obama administration's restrictions on lobbying as everything from a loophole-ridden politica...
orris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo until 2007, has just lost his job for writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
An internal Congressional Research Service report says that the Secret Service does not that have the resources to deal with the unprecedented number ...
The top congressional official who oversees research on foreign policy and defense issues, including the war in Afghanistan, has been fired from his j...
Private contractors will make up at least half of the total military workforce in Afghanistan going forward, according to Defense Department officials...