Senate leadership has pledged to allow a vote on re-importing prescription drugs from Canada as an amendment to the health care reform bill, but they'...
TIME | Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf | Posted 05.25.2011
Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially ex...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
The Chicago activists called attention to the deadly life cycle of coal mining and coal burning -- including the burning of coal strip-mined from mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia.
David Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
We've all heard of Conflict Diamonds by now. But a troubling, less visible crisis haunts objects we use everyday. Here is everything you need to know about the next big issue: Conflict Minerals.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
The Chicago Sun-Times discovers another bad deal for taxpayers in Cook County government.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The man tasked with counting the votes for Democrats in the Senate told reporters on Friday that the caucus was still considering health care reform t...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rura...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats in the Senate are considering holding colleagues accountable for halting Republican filibusters by stripping seniority and chairmanships from those who do not vote for cloture. Let us demand it.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011
One can only hope that quick passage of the UAFA will help people like Karla and Stacy have a fair shot at making a loving committed relationship work for the long term.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. T...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Wednesday to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. T...
Posted 05.25.2011
With foreclosure filings topping 300,000 for the sixth straight month, Senate Democrats are considering a return to a contentious battle they lost in ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Cramdown is back. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) tells the Huffington Post he plans to revive the effort to give...
Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011
Conservatives believe -- with justification -- that if they get angry enough and loud enough, liberals will back down from fights like this one.
Chicago Sun-Times | ABDON M. PALLASCH AND ROSALIND ROSSI | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin -- the No. 2 Democrat in the U.S. Senate -- is getting drawn into the growing investigation of how some students get admitted to...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. job market may be showing signs of life, but the scenario isn't really so rosy, as our government has yet to relieve the foreclosure pandemic.
Chicago Sun-Times | ABDON M. PALLASCH | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama would like to get something passed for health care reform and then start negotiating in a House-Senate conference committee, the Senat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
One of Barack Obama's chief allies in the United States Senate hinted on Sunday that a public insurance option could go by the wayside as Congress ham...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is recommending a most unusual name for a slot on the U. S. District Court bench in Chicago: the brother of the man he defeated ...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched his harshest attack on the Republican Party in months, claiming the GOP is "being run by a talk show host."...
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011
We can't allow Wall Street to go on cheating people out of the most important possession of their lives -- their home.
The Progress Report | Posted 05.25.2011
Having successfully delayed a vote until after the August recess, lobbyists are seizing on town halls to ambush lawmakers in an attempt to fool them and the greater public into thinking there is wide opposition to health care reform.
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
ThinkProgress reported today on the growing number of angry right-wing activists viciously harassing Democratic, as well as moderate Republican, membe...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called on Obama to get involved while Congress is in recess. "I say this as a member of Congress who's bee...
Daily Herald | Joseph Ryan | Posted 05.25.2011
Durbin said he "doesn't think the field is complete at this point" for the senate race. Meanwhile, he isn't picking a horse....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011