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Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Pete Sessions will be featured speakers next week at the Monday Meeting, a confab of conservative Fundraisers and opinion-makers, in New York, POLITICO's Maggie Haberman reports. The event, a closed and off the record af…

Last week Mitch Daniels, Indiana's Governor, told The Daily Princetonian that "justice was served" when he was arrested for marijuana possession during his junior year at Princeton. But like many pot smokers who became politicians, Daniels, a pote…

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- A top Republican in the U.S. House says he has fired a spokesman for allegedly sharing some of the congressman's e-mails to reporters with The New York Times. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversigh…

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch is being circumspect about whether he will reclassify Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his conference as “enemies” of reform now that the Republicans are being all on-again, off-again about redistricting …

FILE - In this April 25, 2010 file photo, singer Harry Connick Jr. attends the Opening Night performance of the Broadway musical "Promises, Promises" in New York. Harry Connick Jr. will be bringing his crooner's voice back to Broadway. The musica…

With money in short supply, city and State Governments across the U.S. are eyeing a new way to build roads, bridges and other big transportation projects. The deals are called public-private partnerships. Instead of financing construction themselv…

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has just fired his Press Secretary for forwarding email correspondence with Politico reporters to a writer working on a book. Issa's Deputy Communications Director, K…

It looks like Howard Kurtz is going to get a whole lot of new clarity about who he's talking to when he has Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on the phone. According to Jake Sherman at Politico, Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella has been fired.…