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by Mark Silva President Barack Obama will fly to Denver, the place where he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination last summer, to sign the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act'' into law on Tuesday. It's "as good'' a place "as any"......

by Mark Silva and updated After a week at "war'' with the FOX News Channel, the White House maintained today that it really isn't too concerned about what FOX says about the administration - and also gave new, high-level......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, suggesting that he'll happily accept the 59-percent approval rating that shows in one of the newest polls on his job performance, also predicts that his healthcare reforms will pass -- and he says, "we've......

by Mark Silva Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faces a tough reelection contest back home in Nevada. He faces a liberal wing of the Democratic Party upset with compromise on what the White House and others consider an essential element......

by Mark Silva and updated at 4:30 pm EDT The Senate Judiciary Committee is a day away from voting to recommend the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sotomayor......

by Noam Levey Providing a major boost to Democrats pushing for a health overhaul, Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe - the most watched lawmaker in Washington right now - today announced that she will back a sweeping healthcare bill being......

by Mark Silva Republicans, yes. Democrats, no. It's a volatile mix for a health-care overhaul that the White House is seeking. Alll eyes may be on the Senate Finance Committee today, but the outcome of the health-care overhaul in the......

by Mark Silva This, the White House makes clear, is not the goal line. With the Senate Finance Committee's passage of health-care legislation today, the fifth of five House and Senate committees with jurisdiction to adopt reforms having acted, the......

by Lisa Mascaro Despite last-minute efforts to win hold-outs, the Senate fell two votes short this afternoon of the 60 needed to advance the financial regulation bill. A do-over vote could come as soon as Thursday. Two Democrats broke......

An exuberant Sen. Chris Dodd is flanked by Sens. Harry Reid and Dick Durbin, with Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Warner in the background, after the Senate passed a sweeping regulatory overhaul bill Thursday night. (Getty/Mark Wilson) by Janet......

by Mark Silva That one Republican vote on the health-care bill that cleared the Senate Finance Committee this week is nothing for Democrats to write home about, the GOP chairman says. "One Republican vote out of 40 in the Senate......

With the whole map trending blue, there's suddenly an outside chance the Democrats can get a 60-vote, filibuster proof majority in the Senate. As the map below from pollster.com indicates, they are leading in enough states to give them 54.......