Amanda Terkel Pokes Holes In Grassley's Argument
Protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is one more issue dividing Democrats and Republicans, as The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed...
Protecting women from domestic violence and abuse is one more issue dividing Democrats and Republicans, as The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Protecting women from violence and abuse has been an issue of bipartisan cooperation since President Clinton signed the landmark Violenc...
Marianne Mollmann | Posted 02.01.2012
Domestic violence is a continuing, costly, and consistently underserved problem. Cutting federal funds for dealing with it is not only bad news, it is a bad idea.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers suggested Republicans would be willing to raise certain taxes to shrink the deficit, as long as the debt...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.20.2011
WASHINGTON -- Unions are coming down hard on the so-called "Gang of Six" deficit-cutting plan, blasting the bipartisan proposal with a harsh ad set to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- More than half the Senate was convened early Tuesday morning by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) for a briefing on a deficit-reduction plan bein...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The six-month Senate fight over debit card swipe fees is finally over. The banks lost. An amendment pushed by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mon...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The hardest fought, most expensive legislative battle of 2011 is coming to a head today in the U.S. Senate. The question: How much s...
Posted 06.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- They have met in almost total secrecy for months, holed up in an office on Capitol Hill: three Republican and three Democratic senat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 06.11.2011
With many Republicans agreeing with Democrats that raising the debt ceiling is a simple necessity, some think the GOP is left with little negotiating ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of senators that has been meeting behind the scenes during the past several months is emerging as the focal point in ...
Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011
If you care about your grandkids' welfare, by all means be concerned about the deficit -- but be very, very, very concerned about the need to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Some of the Senate's staunchest conservatives and one of its most powerful liberals on Thursday swung behind a controversial defici...
Huffington Post | Brad J Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011
Mason-Dixon 10/20-22/10; 625 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Live phone interview (Mason-Dixon PDF) Idaho 2010 Senate 64% Crapo (R), 20% Sul...
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
A WSJ story on the stocks held by the staff of some members of Congress is journalism based on the notion that every database deserves its own sensationalistic expose -- even when the information in the database is relatively ho-hum.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Allow me to state for the record that I have great sympathy for the dedicated professionals at the Congressional Budget Office. In Washington's parti...
Walid Zafar | Posted 05.25.2011
When their own constituents are in need, the Idaho Congressional delegation abandons Friedrich von Hayek and head straight to the waiting arms of John Maynard Keynes.
Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
What exactly does the HAA accomplish that could possibly attract such broad, bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate? Universal health insurance coverage and immediate deficit neutrality in the first two years.
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 05.25.2011
Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Jim Risch (R-ID) have more in common than a love for their home state. The Idahoan Senators, who have been friends sinc...
Posted 02.16.2012