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By
John Stanton and Meredith Shiner
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
GOP leaders Wednesday launched a coordinated assault on the Obama administration's controversial birth control rule, accusing the White House of trampling on religious freedoms and vowing to overturn the new rule.
By
Kyle Trygstad
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
If Democrats are concerned about the lopsided Senate playing field this cycle, just wait until 2014. An early scan of next cycle’s Senate landscape paints a favorable picture for the GOP, which will defend 13 seats to Democrats’ 20.
By
David M. Drucker
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Two weeks removed from leadership, Sen. Lamar Alexander has shifted 180 degrees from politics to policy — attempting to parlay his newfound freedom and influence as a respected, tenured Member into legislative action and a more bipartisan Senate.
By
Amanda Becker
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Differences between the Senate and House versions of legislation banning insider trading by Members and staff have experts worried about what provisions will make the final cut as the two chambers rush to pass the bill and claim the ethical high ground.
By
Daniel Newhauser
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
As talks stalled Wednesday, Members of Congress on the payroll tax cut conference committee began to acknowledge that negotiations might have to go behind closed doors for any real work to get done.
By
Emma Dumain
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
As the only agency in the legislative branch to escape cuts to its budget in fiscal 2012, the Capitol Police made the case Wednesday for an increase in fiscal 2013.
By
Kyle Trygstad
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
As the American Conservative Union’s gathering of grass-roots activists kicks off again today in Washington, D.C., Mitt Romney finds himself the uneasy frontrunner in a Republican nomination fight that remains hotly contested.
By
Shira Toeplitz
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
The Senate majority is up for grabs this cycle, but whoever takes the reins of the Senate campaign committees next year will likely have to contend with a small margin of power in the chamber. And no matter what the scoreboard looks like after Election Day 2012, the future House campaign committee chairmen will encounter tough challenges next cycle.
By
Joshua Miller and Abby Livingston and Shira Toeplitz
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
After appearing to have a deal, the state Legislature is deadlocked over a new Congressional redistricting map, raising the prospect of having the court draw the lines and leaving Bluegrass State politics in turmoil.
By
Stuart Rothenberg
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
For all the hoopla over former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (Pa.) Tuesday sweep of Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, the dynamics of the Republican presidential race have changed little. While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney seems unable to actually win the nomination, it is still awfully difficult to see him losing it.
By Rep. Earl Blumenauer
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Congress is currently in the process of considering what many have called the worst transportation bill in history.
By Daniel W. Yohannes
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
As the Millennium Challenge Corp. marks its eighth anniversary, we celebrate one of our most distinct features — making our growth-focused, poverty-reducing assistance more accountable through a disciplined and rigorous focus on results at every stage of our investment.
By
Jason Dick
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Long before H Street Northeast was defined by dance and theater companies, high-end residential development, music clubs and gastro pubs, Dickie Shannon opened Horace and Dickie’s, a takeout spot specializing in fried fish that became a local landmark.
Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.
By
Aaron Guerrero
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Benjamin Franklin died a decade before the nation’s capital moved to the swamps along the Potomac River. This week, he makes a grand entrance.
By
Douglas Graham
| Feb. 9, 2012, Midnight
Bleary-eyed Democratic Senate leaders (from left) Charles Schumer, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray and Harry Reid wait their turn at the lectern following the weekly policy luncheons Tuesday.
