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Billionaire Clean Energy Advocate Pledges to Spend Big in Mass.

A new campaign demands that Rep. Stephen Lynch renounce his support for the Keystone XL pipeline.

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| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 1:37 PM PDT

Rand Paul's Long Road to Immigration Moderation

The Kentucky senator was once much further to the right on immigration than he is now.

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| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 9:13 AM PDT
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Sen. Carl Levin Plans to Grill The IRS Over Dark Money

Levin's investigative subcommittee will look the IRS' failure to "enforce our tax laws and stem the flood" of dark money.

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| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 7:29 AM PDT
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Harrison Ford Heads To Congress To Talk About Planes, Yet Again

Presumably not to tell Congress to get off them.

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| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 7:01 AM PDT

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Mitch McConnell Will Fundraise With Billionaires After Saying the GOP Is Not The Party of Billionaires

No one debunks Mitch McConnell better than Mitch McConnell.

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| Mon Mar. 18, 2013 7:47 AM PDT

Elizabeth Warren Goes After NRA, Big Banks, GOP

Speaking at the Consumer Federation of America, Sen. Warren continued her fight for a "level playing field" for consumers.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 12:06 PM PDT

"I Can't Keep This Going": How JPMorgan Chase Changed Its Own Risk Rules and Lost $6 Billion

But the big loss wasn't just the bank's fault. Regulators fell down on the job, too.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 9:08 AM PDT

Obama's New New Climate Plan

The Obama administration rolls out two new plans that should excite enviros.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 10:08 AM PDT

Former Congressional Ethics Chair: My $16,000 African Safari Was to Research Al Qaeda

Rep. Jo Bonner responds to MoJo's investigation of the trip he and two other GOPers took to Kenya in 2012.

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| Fri Mar. 15, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

WATCH: Mr. Blasty the Drone Goes to Washington [Fiore Cartoon]

Mr. Blasty: "I've been busy abroad for years, killing thousands."

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| Thu Mar. 14, 2013 5:47 PM PDT
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WATCH: Feinstein Smacks Down Cruz Over Gun Ban: "I Am Not a 6th-Grader"

The Senate Judicary Committee moved forward on an assault weapons ban—but not before some fireworks.

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| Thu Mar. 14, 2013 1:30 PM PDT

Assault Weapons Ban Heads to Senate Floor, Where It Will Probably Die

By a party-line vote, the Judiciary Committee passed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's gun-control bill to the full Senate, where it still doesn't have the votes it needs.

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| Thu Mar. 14, 2013 8:13 AM PDT
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Will Big Donors Get Special Access to Obama? Group Still Won't Say

Organizing for Action, which aims to raise $50 million, launches with closed-door D.C. meeting

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| Wed Mar. 13, 2013 10:14 AM PDT

Name Calling Won't Save Shrinking Glaciers and Disappearing Islands

Greedy, Lying Bastards gets you spitting mad that the climate change argument isn't being more artfully fought.

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| Mon Mar. 11, 2013 8:14 PM PDT

Here's How a GOP Congressman Opposed the Violence Against Women Act—Then Pretended He Was for It

Nebraska's Jeff Fortenberry gets caught altering his official statement.

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| Wed Mar. 13, 2013 10:23 AM PDT

Could Waxman's New Bill Offer New Hope for a Carbon Tax?

When it comes to carbon legislation, Rep. Henry Waxman's motto seems to be "try, try again."

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 11:43 AM PDT

Paul Ryan's "New" Plan: Squeeze the Poor, Boost the Rich

When will the media wise up and call Ryan's same old plan what it really is?

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 7:32 AM PDT

CHARTS: Not Everyone in the International Conservation Caucus Votes for Conservation

Why does a congressional group with a goal of preserving natural resources count among its members congressmen with deplorable environmental records?

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:01 AM PDT

How I Was Offered My Very Own Safari

I spent weeks trying to reach the founder and former head of a mysterious corporate-backed environmental group. Here's what happened when I finally got him on the phone.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

The Congressman, the Safari King, and the Woman Who Tried to Look Like a Cat

Inside the shadowy nonprofit that throws some of DC's finest junkets.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT