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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has a tough road ahead. Very tough. Bernanke, whose four-year term expires in January, is certain to face a contentious Senate banking panel at his confirmation hearing, set for Dec.

Depressed Democrats Polling in Ohio and Connecticut spells trouble for Democrats.

His was a winning political formula, and so it is today for many lawmakers, economists, pundits, civic activists and ordinary citizens from both parties and from both ends of the political spectrum .

Kelly Ayotte wants voters to support her bid for U.S. Senate in 2010 because Washington is a mess and we need leaders like her to straighten it out.

Invoking the name of the late Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with opposition Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

A top Senate Republican lashed out against lawmakers of both parties for supporting legislation that would audit the Federal Reserve, accusing the bipartisan group of "political pandering" to populist anger.

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Following the unveiling of the Senate Democratic leadership's version of health care reform, Sen.

Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.

The U.S. Congress edged closer on Wednesday to creating new government powers to break up giant financial firms, which Europe is already doing, while a U.S. derivatives market crackdown got more complicated.

Nov 18 - Republican U.S. Senator Judd Gregg on Wednesday criticized the Democrats' plan to impose sweeping curbs on the Federal Reserve.

Tax dollars for abortion: Fact or fiction? Do health reform headlines leave you saying 'huh?' Msnbc.com separates the rhetoric from the reality.

Republicans today labeled as a circus the Obama administration's decision to prosecute in a New York federal court five individuals charged with orchestrating the Sept.

Fearlessly demonstrating the majesty of U.S. justice or acquiescing to terrorists by giving them undeserved rights and a public platform? The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, admitted mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and four other suspects to a New York courtroom, rather than a military tribunal, was described in stark ...

The consensus from political experts: New Hampshire isn't Florida. With four candidates currently in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, and at least one more still considering running, the anticipated highest-profile New Hampshire race in 2010 will be about far more than cut-and-dried distinctions on ideology.

Cost issues continue to receive attention as bipartisan support emerges on the Hill for a commission to control health care costs.

Construction of a $35 million federal Job Corps center in New Hampshire, where union workers amount to only a small percentage of the work force, has been stalled over contract language that requires the center be built by union labor.

The drive on Capitol Hill to create a bipartisan commission to help control the cost of health spending and address mounting deficits picked up momentum Tuesday, as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a handful of moderate Democrats and Republicans voiced support for the effort.

Left to their own devices, lawmakers won't successfully deal with the country's spiraling debt situation.

Before "tea partyers" unified to bemoan the tax-and-spend ways of Democrat-dominated Washington, the Republican mayor of Manchester, N.H., drove a tax cut through the Democrat-controlled board of aldermen.