By
Meredith Shiner
| Midnight A bill that would extend the current student loan rate is just the latest legislation stuck in partisan limbo despite support from both parties for the overall idea.
By
Humberto Sanchez
| Midnight Senate Republicans are not ruling out calling for hearings on a judicial conference in Hawaii that has raised eyebrows, but lawmakers say they are reserving judgment until they get a response to a set of questions sent by leading GOP members of the Senate Judiciary and Budget committees.
Politics
By
Shira Toeplitz
| Midnight A flood of outside spending has quietly moved the Ohio Senate race from a second-tier contest to a single-digit competition.
Politics
By
Joshua Miller
| Midnight Voters go to the polls today in Arkansas and Kentucky to select their party’s nominees for Congress.
Politics
By
Kyle Trygstad
| Midnight Hogan Gidley, who served as communications director on former Sen. Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign, has a new gig.
Politics
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| Midnight “It’s a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans,” President Barack Obama said in a statement after the Supreme Court’s January 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that corporations have a constitutional right to free speech.
Opinion
By Don Wolfensberger
| Midnight Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, two of Washington’s most respected political observers, have published two books on Congress in the past six years, the most recent being “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.”
Opinion
By Stan Collender
| Midnight Like most federal budget watchers, I assumed that the extremely negative political reaction to the federal government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996 meant that tactic wasn’t likely to be threatened again, let alone actually used. That changed last year when a shutdown became the favored approach for many on Capitol Hill.
Politics
By
Steven T. Dennis
President Barack Obama doubled down on attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital at a press conference at the NATO summit in Chicago on Monday.
