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Thomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein tell Alan why they blame Republicans for the gridlock in Washington
After years of losing residents to more prosperous states, the nation's Rust Belt now confronts another blow to its economic prospects: losing some of its votes in C...
The public panned it. Republicans obstructed it. Many Democrats fled from it. Even so, the session of Congress now drawing to a close was the most productive in near...
American International Group finally has a plan to exit the biggest of the Wall Street bailouts a month before midterm elections. But much as embattled Democrats mig...
The next task for Minnesota's new junior senator will be to complete his transformation from edgy comedian to influential politician.To prepare, Al Franken has studi...
Former New York Gov. George Pataki announced Wednesday the creation of a national organization that will work to repeal the Democrats' health care overhaul, which he...
Witnesses regularly broke into a sweat at the prospect of testifying before Rep. John Dingell , whose interrogations once made him a feared watchdog on Capitol Hill....
Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series on the role of lobbying in Washington, D.C., and associated reforms proposed by Congress .Though Washington is ...
Dead or alive.President Bush said he didn't care how terrorism architect Usama bin Laden was brought to justice."We'll smoke him out of his cave and we'll get him ev...
At Ben's Chili Bowl, the soon-to-be first family has an open invitation to dine for free on chili-smothered sausages.A couple of miles away, the owners of the city's...
Let's make a deal.President Obama honed his dealmaking skills on his maiden international trip, to Europe and the Middle East .The trip helped burnish his image abro...
"We only have one president at a time."That's what Barack Obama said in his first press conference after defeating John McCain on Nov. 4. But in the four weeks since...
President Obama calls for earmark reform on same day he signs massive government funding bill
The system worked.It wasn't pretty. It wasn't neat. It wasn't quick.But after much political wrangling, posturing and grandstanding, it still worked.The two major po...
TV's Andy Levy puts the 'ombudsman' in 'Red Eye' ombudsman
With tens of thousands of jobs, more than $1 billion and their reputations on the line, Senate Democrats gave way Friday to a power play by House Republicans in orde...
The whiff of scandal cost Democrat Bill Richardson a job in President Barack Obama's administration, but the former New Mexico governor's reputation and political le...
SANTA FE, N.M. -- The whiff of scandal cost Democrat Bill Richardson a job in President Barack Obama's administration, but the former New Mexico governor's reputatio...
WASHINGTON -- In prodding Congress to act swiftly to avoid a government default on its financial obligations, President Obama has Isaac Bassett and a long history of...
Awash in a sea of public opinion polls — national and state, telephone and Internet, independent and partisan — voters must be seeing double by now.And it's about to...