Why the debt panel is in trouble
Will conservative talkers turn on Cain?
“If they don’t talk about you, it’s like you don’t exist,” says one GOP campaign adviser.
Romney keeps courting Union Leader
Who shut down tea party 'hearing'?
Staffers from Schumer’s Rules Committee kicked tea party debt hearing out of a Senate room.
Dems reject latest GOP deficit offer
Lawmakers decline a $640 billion deficit deal, making a compromise look implausible.
Balanced budget amendment rejected
The Constitutional amendment falls short of the two-thirds majority vote needed in the House.
POLITICO Influence: Deal or no deal
Several Democratic and Republican K-Streeters say supercommittee woes aren't bad news for business.
GOP has a new favorite villain
Brune new chairman at Sierra Club
The move comes as the environmental lobby recovers from last year’s death of climate legislation.
Atlas Project ushers in new era
The well-connected consulting firm launched a site that compiles the information campaigns rely on.
Big Labor shells out for GOP friends
This year union giving is down, but a higher percentage of donations is going to Republicans.
The transformation of Pat Toomey
The tea party darling from Pennsylvania has turned into a key compromiser.
Hillary Clinton to visit Myanmar
Bloomberg: Unions hijacked protest
He calls it opportunity for "unions to complain."
Rare deal: $182B approps bill passes
House-Senate farm bill negotiators signal they are nearing an agreement on a five-year plan.
Twyman: Obama needs to Tebow
Is the secret to success for President Barack Obama to be more like … Tim Tebow?
Clinton: 'Sick' about Penn State
She says the scandal is especially personal because of her family’s ties to the school and team.
Obama sends note to Heavy D's funeral
Clinton 'surprised' at Chelsea move
The secretary of state weighs in on her daughter's decision to take a reporting job with NBC News.
Alleged W.H. shooter: I am modern-day Jesus
He reportedly recorded a video for Oprah.
Real debt solution must 'go long'
Opinion: The supercommitee should reform policies projected to increase debt beyond the next decade.
W.H. threatens to veto defense bill
The Obama administration could block the bill over its language on military detainees.
Poll: U.S. leadership above China's
In eight of the nine Asian countries polled, more respondents approved of American leadership.
Poll: Legalize pot -- for medical use
Seventy-seven percent say doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana for patients.
- 2012 LIVE
Cain apologizes to Latinos for joke
He then outlined a border policy he supports, praising Arizona and Alabama immigration laws.
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Clinton plays dumb on candidates
"I haven't been honestly paying a lot of attention" to the GOP field, the secretary of state says.
- The Arena
Is Occupy a bunch of 'babies'?
Don Todd: "Americans have been exposed to full grown infants with advanced degrees."
Sunday shows: Newt rising
Cain to Letterman: Accusers are liars
"All of these women are lying?" Letterman asks.
Kinder won't run for Missouri gov
Sources say he changed his mind in the last 36 hours.
Romney: 'I exhale carbon dioxide'
He says he doesn't want the EPA following him.
Levin, W.H. tangle on detainee policy
The Obama team is in a public showdown with the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Politi-quotes: The week in one-liners
The derailed plans of James O'Keefe
The conservative activist's vision is hampered by infighting, lack of funding and his own fame.
Perry swipes at Holder
The 2012 hopeful describes 'Fast and Furious' as an "ill-conceived operation."
Newt advised Freddie until takeover
His second contract ended after the meltdown.
22 Dems back Berman over Sherman
The endorsements give Berman a boost in his fight to win one of California's redrawn districts.
This week by the numbers
Abramoff pleads for his domain name
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee owns the rights to “jackabramoff.com.”
GOP grills Chu on Solyndra
GOP lawmakers say probe will continue.
Newt 2.0 still has faults of Newt 1.0
Opinion: I wouldn't vote for Gingrich, but I do have an appreciation for his strengths and weaknesses.
Ariz. court rebuffs Brewer on map
The state Supreme Court rules that the governor illegally impeached the top redistricting official.
Bush impersonator: 'Miss me?'
Palin in WSJ: Congress occupying Wall Street
She blasts lawmakers who arrive "as men and women of modest means" and leave as millionaires.
Giffords: Slash lawmaker pay
The Arizona congresswoman's aides have asked the supercommittee to cut lawmakers' pay.
Bachmann hits Obama over Qadhafi
"We don’t know what type of chaos will ensue" in Libya, the GOP hopeful says.
Flailing in N.H., Johnson blasts RNC
"I feel like the Republican party has left me," says the long-shot GOP hopeful.
