The so-called "cramdown" mortgage relief bill has been crammed into next week, as I reported over at Congress Matters earlier today. The House scrapped its original plan to vote on four amendments to the bill and move to final passage before adjournment today. Instead, they held an hour's worth of g...

NYPost.com: WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, ...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....

Paul Krugman wades into the ongoing debate over whether Obama should look back or move forward with regards to extra-legal activities on the part of the outgoing administration: Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush a...

This week, writing about the possibility that there might be some uncovering of the Bush/Cheney NSA wiretapping scheme in the pending Al Haramain case, I said this: So it's very possible that we could finally have some light shed on the warrantless wiretapping program in this case. That should not, ...

A quick two-point timeline: Dec. 11, 2008: The Senate Armed Services Committee released a report laying responsibility for the development of torture techniques at the feet of senior Administration officials. The New York Times editorial board would later write that this report "amounts to a strong ...

I used to kinda like John Conyers (D-Michigan), but his wife's insane (and that says something about him) and he's pretty much a blowhard. Seems like a lot of the older Democrats are, like they're not used to being in a position to follow up on their threats, to wield real power. Today, ...

If beleaguered U.S. automakers did not have enough problems, Michigan Rep. John D. Dingell, their greatest congressional champion, was dethroned yesterday as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee by Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, an advocate of stiff measures against global war......

If beleaguered U.S. automakers did not have enough problems, Michigan Rep. John D. Dingell, their greatest congressional champion, was dethroned yesterday as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee by Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, an advocate of stiff measures against global war......