Obama and LBJ: ‘What the hell’s a presidency for?’
THE TAKE | Fifty years from now, will we be looking at the Obama’s record the same way we do LBJ’s?
Pelosi’s inflammatory words really don’t help her
House leader’s name-calling style lacks substance when it comes to her political opponents.
The Michigan answer
The Senate election may be the GOP’s best counter to Democratic cries of a ‘war on women.’
Hillary Clinton’s biggest problem in 2016? Washington.
The more time you spend in the nation’s capitol, the less likely you are to get elected president.
Why Kathleen Sebelius’s political career is (probably) over
Both nationally and at home, she’s become a symbol of the Obama’s administration’s most polarizing policy.
The bill that united Cummings and Issa
The legislation, which the Senate passed unanimously on Thursday, would require federal agencies to report all spending on a single Web site.
Scott Brown’s one-word way to win the New Hampshire Senate race? Obamacare.
A look at the Brown playbook on his first full day as a candidate.
A fishy Education Department statistic
We do the math on the Obama administration’s surprising claim about for-profit education programs
Michelle Obama joins Washington women in cause for veterans’ caregivers
The women will meet at the White House on Friday to push for expanded benefits for the veterans’ caregivers.
House approves budget that would save money by taking from federal workers
House-approved budget would effectively cut federal worker pay by more than 5 percent.
Healing in Rwanda
The country has shown remarkable resilience, but still stands as a rebuke to those who did nothing.
In the Loop: The roots of a young super PAC
For a political entity founded by three Tennessee teenagers, life is fleeting and penniless but full of amazement.
Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings don’t like each other. At all.
They fought again Thursday. And Lois Lerner was involved.
Sen. McCaskill asks: Where’s the oversight?
McCaskill noted during a hearing that 41 small agencies with a combined budget of $1 billion have no dedicated inspectors general.
Hillary Clinton Memoir Title Contest: The Winners are. . .
Clinton’s new memoir is coming out June 10, but it could use a good title.
House committee votes to hold ex-IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt
The party-line vote from the House oversight committee moves a contempt resolution to the full House for consideration.
Is harassment just treated with lip service on Capitol Hill?
Congress and its 30,000 employees operate under different rules than the rest of the federal government.
Meet the super PAC that both Republicans and Democrats should fear
How Ending Spending Action Fund is quietly shaping the 2014 landscape.
The ideological middle is dead in Congress. Really dead.
Fewer than 1 percent of members of Congress can be accurately described as centrists.
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