Senate Passes Foreclosure Rescue Plan
WASHINGTON — A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loans pas...
WASHINGTON — A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loans pas...
AFP | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Senator Hillary Clinton will return to congressional politics this week before staging her first joint appearances with White Ho...
Paul Helmke | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
During Sen. John McCain's speech to a National Rifle Association gathering in D.C. in September 2007, he said the following: So you know, my friends, ...
WSJ.com | Jeffrey Ball | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green
Last week's Senate debate over a bill to cap U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions wasn't much of a cliffhanger. Opponents called the bill too expensive; prop...
Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
"This primary is a good thing. Democrats have developed a way to raise $100 million, 80 percent in donations under $90. We have millions more registered voters, 50,000 new Democrats in Nevada."
Michael Russnow | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
The candidates' pronouncements seem designed to appeal to a mass audience of believers rather than actually provide an indicative revelation of the devout convictions they presume to uphold.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano asked Sen. Joe Lieberman if Obama is "a Marxist, as Bill Kristol says might be the case?" "I must say that's a go...
The Uptake | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home
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Jeff Merkley | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
It's not enough to wait for a new president to lead us out of way. We must start today to bring our troops home.
Jeff Merkley | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The men and women who have served this country in the Armed Forces left our shores to fight overseas for us. The absolute least we can do is fight for them when they come home.
Jeff Merkley | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
For the last several years, the telecoms have turned over the records of millions of Americans. These records were released under no warrant or judicial oversight.
AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers say they will push ahead with a presidential commission designed to root out waste and fraud in military contracts despit...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that would bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill t...
McClatchy | David Whitney | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
After 20 hearings and countless speeches on the Senate floor warning of the risks of failure, a key committee starts work Wednesday on historic legisl...
Stephen Kaus | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
It is indicative of how outrageous Bush's previous Attorneys General have been that Mukasey is considered a moderate and Bush appears to be about to get away with this.
Associated Press | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home
A former New Orleans prostitute who will be featured in Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine appeared at his office Tuesday to accuse Sen. David Vitter of h...
Chuck Lippstreu | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
When Kerrey comes back he'll put a new face on a state that roundly embarrasses itself almost every election cycle.
Michael Rogers | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
The time when politicians can stand with one foot on the platform of homophobia and the other in the closet has come to an end.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business