GOP State Reps Flout Constitution, Challenge 14th Amendment on State Level

This summer, Americans who hadn’t studied civics since eighth grade got a refresher on the 14th Amendment when several Republican senators called for its repeal. Now, that push is gaining considerable steam, but on the state level, where Republican state representatives across the country are planning to introduce More…

Are Campaign Finance Complaints Against Crossroads GPS Partisan?

Piling on to the GOP pushback against requests for the IRS to investigate nonprofit groups like Crossroads GPS, Karl Rove spoke on the Fox News Channel’s Your World with Neil Cavuto:

KARL ROVE, FMR. BUSH DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF:  Crossroads GPS is a 501(c)(4) with lots of lawyers telling its  leadership what they

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In Last Big Jobs Report Before Midterms, Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.6 Percent

This morning, the Labor Department announced that the U.S. unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent in September, reflecting a continued stall-out in the recovery. This is the last major jobs report before the November midterm elections. The unemployment rate has held between 9.5 and 9.7 percent since April. And More…

Lone Obama FEC Nominee Bemoans ‘Broken’ Confirmation Process

Last week, my piece on the Federal Election Commission noted that despite the fact that three of the six members of the commission were serving well beyond their allotted terms, the Obama administration had only nominated a single replacement since taking office. Today, the Center for Public Integrity More…

Two Nominees Make It to the Fed, One Does Not

Yesterday, in the waning hours before the long October recess, during which members of Congress campaign, the Senate confirmed a spate of nominees. Among them were Janet Yellen and Sarah Bloom Raskin to the board of the Federal Reserve, much-needed policy-making positions. But do not take this as much of More…

Senate Leaders Exchange Barbs Over DISCLOSE Act

This morning’s Senate session was devoted to a debate surrounding the DISCLOSE Act, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has indicated will likely be put to a vote sometime tomorrow.

Reid and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the Democratic Whip, spent the majority of their time ripping the Supreme More…

Murkowski Up With First Ad of Her Write-in Bid for Senate

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is up with the first advertisement of her write-in bid to hold her seat representing Alaska in the U.S. Senate.

DREAM Act and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Derail Defense Bill Vote

Senate Republicans filibustered the defense authorization bill Tuesday afternoon, ending a push by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to pass the DREAM Act, which would provide legal status to some undocumented immigrants in exchange for school or military service, and a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell as More…

Economists Argue Against Deficit Reduction

Today, more than 300 economists and policy experts released a letter warning that “the still-fragile economic recovery will be undercut by austerity economics of the kind being pushed by conservative politicians and by the Deficit Commission.”

The group argues that President Obama and Congress should press for legislation More…

Senators Gripe About DREAM Act, Will Likely Still Vote for Defense Bill

Some Republican senators, along with centrist Democrats, aren’t happy with Harry Reid’s decision to slip the DREAM Act into a defense authorization bill up for a vote next week — and they are arguing it could kill the bill, although none have explicitly said they plan to vote More…