Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) rarely holds Press Conferences with animated aardvarks, but he went for it on Wednesday, coaxing the shy Arthur the Aardvark up to the podium. “Come over here Arthur,” Markey beckoned to the human-sized title…

Rep. Darrell Issa is focused on menopause, Condoms, malt liquor and Video Games as the House considers how the government should spend Taxpayer money over the next seven months. The California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and G…

The top House Budget writer vowed this week to craft a blueprint for the nation’s fiscal future that proposes significant reforms to Medicare and Medicaid — but not necessarily to Social Security — as he criticized President Ba…

House Democrats and more Centrist Republicans joined forces in a series of spending votes Wednesday, scoring quick wins and sending the clearest sign yet of second thoughts in the GOP over the depth of reductions demanded by the party’s ne…

Despite President Barack Obama’s vow to close the Military-run Prison at Guantanamo Bay, the facility would likely be used to detain high-level Al Qaeda leaders like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri if they were captured, Central Inte…

Hotshot Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has no trouble with the Individual Mandate to buy health Insurance enacted by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. The Virginia lawman said the Massachusetts law is perfectly legitimate because of the Sovereignty…

Top House lawmakers are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ramp up its investigation into Google’s inadvertent collection of Personal Information as part of its neighborhood mapping project. The request released Wednesday…

As Regulators implement the new Financial Reform law, a coalition of companies that use Derivatives to hedge risk has been quietly lobbying for exemptions from some collateral requirements. Its argument: The requirements would cost at least 100,…