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President Obama has chosen a former lobbyist for the Keystone XL pipeline as his new liaison to the Senate. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Former Keystone XL lobbyist to serve as Obama Senate liasion

Zack Colman · December 23, 2014 8:05 pm

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren a rally at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 369 meeting hall in Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Warren schedules next Wall Street confrontation over Treasury nominee

Joseph Lawler · December 23, 2014 10:00 am

Under the standard deals, the homeowner pays a monthly fee to the installation company, which owns the panels and gets the tax incentives for them. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Lawmakers ask FTC to probe solar panel sales

Sean Higgins · December 23, 2014 10:00 am

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Report: IRS ‘fundamentally transformed’ by Obamacare, Tea Party targeting

Mark Tapscott · December 23, 2014 1:00 am

Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf speaks as he briefs members of the media Aug. 27, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Republicans will not reappoint CBO’s Elmendorf

Joseph Lawler · December 22, 2014 11:44 pm

Fracking is a drilling method that injects a high-pressure mixture of water, sand and chemicals to access hydrocarbons buried deep under tight-rock formations.Â Â (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Energy firm settles with feds for fracking pollution

Zack Colman · December 22, 2014 10:25 pm

Community bankers miss chance to get permanent spot on Fed board

Joseph Lawler · December 22, 2014 10:00 am

Wasteful and fraudulent disability payments are well-documented problems, but a congressional probe has found that they often result when administrative law judges in the federal bureaucracy approve previously rejected claims. (iStock)

Administrative law judges waste billions by granting most disability appeals

Sarah Bedford · December 22, 2014 10:00 am

Rudy Giuliani: Obama propaganda to blame for NYPD officer murders

Rudy Giuliani: Obama propaganda to blame for NYPD officer murders

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2014 8:02 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will be on the Senate Armed Services, Appropriations, Judiciary and Budget committees come 2015, said Congress will not allow parts of the new Cuba policy to go through. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Lindsey Graham to Obama: Iran is watching you

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2014 5:56 pm

Obama: Sony hack not an ‘act of war’

National Security

Obama: Sony hack not an ‘act of war’

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2014 5:14 pm

Marco Rubio continues his blitz against Obama’s new Cuba policy

Marco Rubio continues his blitz against Obama’s new Cuba policy

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2014 4:23 pm