If you believe that your bank deposits are firmly secured by FDIC, thanks to our neglectful Congress, you may be riding on a false sense of security, according to some shocking news in the Boston Globe: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits up to $250,000, tried for years...

In January during a U.S. Senate hearing on TVA's December coal ash spill in Kingston, California Democrat Barbara Boxer was leading calls for the mega-utility to come out of the disaster as a leader in green power research. At the same event Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander looked like he was pl...

Your U.S. elitist Senators selfishly voted today to destroy job opportunities for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. In a surprise move, Sen. Patrick Leahy motioned to table Sen. Sessions’ E-Verify Amendment, and the motion passed by a narrow margin, 50-47. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Amendm...

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio is scheduled to address the Latin American Republicans of South Florida at the Blue Martini Lounge at the Galleria Mall in Fort Lauderdale next Saturday, March 14. Also on the program: Tito Munoz, aka Tito the Builder, who sounds like a hard-hat version o...

State lawmakers can't raise re-election money during the legislative session, but state lawmakers who are running for federal office can. So in the noble tradition of the likes of Tom Feeney, Katherine Harris, Johnnie Byrd and Ron Klein, Democratic senate candidate Dan Gelber tells us he's not going...

Overwhelming Senate passage of legislation giving DC residents a voting representative in the U.S. House of Representatives reminds me of the long history of the struggle for DC Voting Rights. It was, or should have been, an integral part of the civil rights movement, because of the historic disenfr...

I bet few people caught this one last week, and I had to dig to find it in the PiPress archives: McCollum tied in most liberal rank U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum compiled the most liberal voting record in the Minnesota congressional delegation last year, according to the National Journal’s congress...

Republican Senator John McCain, who battled Barack Obama hard on the campaign trail on the Iraq war, said on Friday he supports President Obama's plans to remove U.S. combat forces from Iraq over 19 months....

Keep an eye on how RPOF Chairman Jim Greer deals with the stimulus package Charlie Crist campaigned for and every Florida Republican in Congress opposed. RNC Chairman Michael Steele - Greer's guy - even said on Fox News he might support primary challengers to the Republican senators who voted for th...

Hat Tip: Politico.com Sen. Dick Durbin urged Sen. Roland Burris on Tuesday to quit his job as the junior senator from Illinois, but the embattled senator has no plans of leaving the Senate. In a private meeting that lasted nearly an hour, Durbin told Burris that the growing controversy over his appo...