So Far, Census Return Rate Up to 54 Percent
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(April 1) -- Mailing back your census form costs the federal government 42 cents in bulk postage. Not mailing it costs $57 and then some. Census officials used today's official Census Day to tout...
Health Reform Fuels Fight Over Government's Role
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 31) -- The landmark health care law has reignited a debate as old as America (and then some): How much government is too much? Democrats are touting the law's new protections...
Federal Study Backs Renting Apartments for Homeless
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WASHINGTON (March 25) -- It may be cheaper for taxpayers to help homeless families rent their own apartments instead of housing them in shelters and transitional housing programs, according to a new...
Tea Party Vitriol Could Come Back to Bite the GOP
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(March 24) -- Republican leaders have distanced themselves from the tea party activists who hurled racist and homophobic invective at lawmakers during the health care debate over the weekend. But the...
Court Fight Looms With Talk of Stevens' Departure
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(March 17) -- President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have been sniping at each other like in-laws with an ax to grind. And now they're potentially on the verge of a major family...
House Democrats to Cut Some Pork From the Menu
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WASHINGTON (March 12) -- It's hard to compete with bridges to nowhere, teapot museums and gigantic weapons systems the Pentagon doesn't want. But finally, pork projects for private companies are...
Health Reform Hinges on Votes From Abortion Foes
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(March 9) -- The arcane rules that govern debate as Congress finishes health care reform soon will meet the simple rule of majority math. House Democratic leaders, resigned to the fact that no...
Cliffhanger: Will New Yorkers See the Oscars?
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WASHINGTON (March 4) -- The prospect is worse than an ostrich-feather fashion faux pas: More than 3 million New York City-area Oscar fans sitting in front of a blank television screen Sunday...
Who's Affected by Senate Squabbling? A Long List
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WASHINGTON (March 2) -- Washington's political squabbles hit home this week for unemployed workers, some construction workers, doctors who treat senior citizens and Department of Transportation...
Who Exactly Counts as Middle Class?
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(Feb. 28) -- Vice President Joe Biden knows what he wants to do to help the middle class, and on Friday he laid out a series of proposals to help them. But does he -- or anyone -- know what middle...
Aloha? Hawaii Moves Closer to Having Sovereign Powers
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WASHINGTON (Feb. 25) -- Call it Queen Liliuokalani's revenge. Long-stalled legislation to give Native Hawaiians the right to form a sovereign government passed the House this week and has the support...
Who's the Bad Guy in Insurance Premium Hikes?
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(Feb. 19) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently told the story of villainous insurance companies charging double-digit rate increases for health coverage while taking...
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