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Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom, died on Monday, leaving behind her a legacy of cons...
John Boehner is setting up a new debt debt ceiling fight with this comments yesterday that "dollar for dollar" is t...
Congressman Jim McDermott took the floor yesterday and laid the wood to John Boehner and Paul Ryan for their sudden epiphany ...
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) fired back at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday, calling the senator and some of his colleag...
ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press, RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama'...
By: Erin MershonWASHINGTON -- House Republicans routinely beat the drum about the hard work they have done in passing "m...
Another federal judge has struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), finding that the law “should not be presumed ...
DOMA ruling: US gay marriage law unconstitutional, Boston court findsA lawyer for gay married couples said the 1996 law amoun...
(AP/The Huffington Post) The Obama administration saw its first monthly budget surplus in April, with the federal government ...
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Today, the federal Defense of Marriage was challenged before the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor. The issue being c...
Republicans are already plotting their next opportunity to take our nation hostage. At his weekly press conference, John Boeh...
It looks like the rightwing has decided to deal with changing demographics by changing voting rights. And by “changing&...
There are less than 20 days until the March 1st Sequester deadline. And Washington is gearing up for a major fight. If politi...
Developing: Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduces a sweeping ban on military-style weapons and high-capacity clips & Sec. of D...
Today is both Presidential Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Day—and we arranged to have a black president for th...
Well, John Boehner is Speaker of the House again. I guess John Boehner is the best thing the Republicans have got. Hey, wasn&...
In the House, John Boehner was narrowly elected to his second term as Speaker – surviving a revolt by a handful of Tea ...
BREAKING: John Boehner has been reelected Speaker of the House, nine Republicans defect.President Obama signed the fiscal cli...
I hope you had a great New Year’s. But if you spent New Year’s Eve counting down the fiscal cliff negotiations, y...
Speaker of the House John Boehner failed to get his members in line to vote on a plan to avert the so-called “fiscal cl...
All eyes are on Speaker of the House John Boehner to see if he has control of his Republican Party. Today, Boehner will try t...
News flash: Tea freak Jim DeMint (R-SC) is quitting the Senate to head up the Heritage Foundation. Great, he’s leaving ...
The Republicans have come up with a counter-offer on solving the fiscal cliff. I’ll give them this—the GOP plan d...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says that there simply can’t be a deal without tax rates on the wealthiest going up. We...
President has been on arelentless campaign for fairness to the middle classin the fiscal cliff deal. He hasn’t been qui...
President Obama is putting forward a big number when it comes to raising revenue ahead of “fiscal cliff” negotiat...
Mitt loves to attack Obama for supposedly apologizing. Mitt said of the Obama administration that “They clearly sent mi...
Did you catch Chris Christie’s RNC keynote speech? It looked like Christie wanted to deliver the message that the Repub...
There is a new pro-Obama ad with Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and a whole Fox News rogues’ gallery of conservatives rippi...
Meet Wall Street billionaire – Pete Peterson – the man trying to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid ...
The old Chestnut "The Greatest Love of All" starts with the phrase, "I believe that children are our future&qu...
John Boehner has thrown down the gauntlet! Either that or he dropped it. When you drink as much as John, sometimes it’s...
John Boehner has pledged to take the fight over contraception to the House floor. In the Senate, the anti-contraception bill ...
So now we’re fighting over birth control? John Boehner said on the floor of the House that the rule requiring insurance...
The days of the Tea Party controlling Congress may be numbered. Congressional aides are suggesting that Speaker of the House ...
President Obama made a 10-minute phone call to John Boehner about the payroll tax fiasco. 10 minutes? How long does it take t...
So, the House Republicans who two weeks ago didn't want to extend a payroll tax cut now want a one year extension or nothing...
The House has gone home for their Christmas break without extending the middle class payroll tax extension. They could have...
Congress is now taking their payroll tax cut fight to the media. Speaker of the House John Boehner and his Tea Party zombies...
House Republicans have prepared a measure that rejects the Senate tax cut extension bill while at the same time calling for...
Tis the season... the Republicans just might be giving 160 million Americans a big tax increase as a holiday gift. I’m...
