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Testifying before a Senate committee on Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that the leaks relating to the communications monitoring practices of the National Security Agency can hurt American national security interests in a variety of ways including educating aspiring terrorists about the internet itself.

The Energy Department is once more deciding what kind of appliances are good for you.

I'm not reluctant to criticize my friends at the Heritage Foundation. In some cases, it is good-natured ribbing because of the Cato-Heritage softball rivalry, but there are also real policy disagreements.

Executive summary: Heritage scholar Dr. Salim Furth was testifying to the Senate Budget Committees about European austerity programs, and how " to date , 'austerity' in Europe has consisted mainly of tax increases."

Disagreements happen all the time in Congress. It is a natural part of any democracy.

It is likely that a good package of executive actions will be coming forth in the near future to really tackle the climate change planet emergency still looming over us.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has translated and published a Chinese edition of two massive climate change volumes originally published by the Heartland Institute in 2009 and 2011, Climate Change Reconsidered and Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report .

A pair of fundraisers just 90 minutes apart in the San Francisco Bay area last week laid bare the competing forces of politics and policy that President Obama is grappling with as he prepares to unveil a slate of major initiatives on global warming in late June or July.

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse also commented on the settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice, the State of Rhode Island, and the City of Providence over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act that affected about 200 disabled Rhode Islanders: "I appreciate the hard work of DOJ, and the leadership of the City and the State to ... (more)

Heritage economist Salim Furth gave testimony last week to the Senate Budget Committee, reminding the Senators that economic research shows that deficit reduction should be pursued through spending cuts, not tax increases.

During the same week that a massive storm system threatened millions from Chicago to Boston , former Vice President Al Gore urged President Barack Obama to get serious on climate change.

"We are on the cusp of a fantastic revolution that is going to make a lot of things better, but there is ferocious resistance because, as is often the case, the legacy industries that have built up wealth and power in a previous age don't see their sun setting yet," Gore said.

Following Senate Budget Committee testimony, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked me seven "questions for the record."

I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Senator Whitehouse's extensive written and oral questions.

"If the Democratic Party doesn't stand with the poor and the vulnerable then I don't know what the hell we stand for," says Rep. Jim McGovern.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Henry Waxman met with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough last week to coordinate climate strategy, the Rhode Island Democrat told reporters Tuesday.

Add Al Gore to the chorus of environmentalists who say it's time for President Barack Obama to get serious about climate change.

Former Vice President Al Gore made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to support the man who's become the new face of climate action in Washington.

Former Vice President Al Gore lamented today that scientists "will not let us link record-breaking" tornadoes in Oklahoma and elsewhere to climate change because of inadequate record keeping on the twisters.

The delayed regulations include a safety rule on silica dust for miners and construction workers, an extension of minimum-wage laws to home-care workers and new oversight standards for imported food.