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GOP presidential candidates want to talk inequality, but the House is still stuck on makers and takers.

Jeb Bush has a long way to go to win over the tea party crowd, says Jules Witcover.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the vanilla candidate, says Jonah Goldberg -- not the favorite, not hated.

Jeb Bush easily chased off Mitt Romney from running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Witcover writes.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told a gathering of federal employees on Wednesday that he anticipates an "unprecedented and extremely damaging assault" on federal employees this year by the GOP-controlled Congress.

Ted Cruz on 'true conservatives'

House effort to tie DHS funding to a reversal of President Obama's immigration orders looks like another empty gesture from the GOP

Will neo-cons rule a new GOP Congress?

There seems to be only one year that is not an election year, and that is the first year of a new president's first term.

Help for suicidal veterans, insurance against terrorist attacks and 2015 tax policy the last casualties of a dysfunctional Congress

As a former prisoner of war who experienced torture, John McCain has more standing than any of his Senate colleagues when it comes to rendering judgment about the CIA's Bush-era "enhanced interrogation" program.

The Senate was speeding toward final approval of a $1 trillion spending bill late Saturday after muscling past opposition from conservative Republicans — an effort that would end any possibility of a government shutdown until next fall.

As Election Day nears, the president hit the campaign trail, but his party largely wishes he stayed home.

Only former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has the potential to best Mitt Romney for the nomination if he decides to run

The president must stop talking about containing ISIS and start talking about eradicating it.

Neither Hillary Clinton nor Jeb Bush are objectionable as presidential candidates, but are these really the only two families from which solid candidates can come?.

Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

What kind of human being looks at a humanitarian crisis and thinks: photo op?

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

"Crazy" keeps popping up in in the GOP.

Calls for octogenarian Supreme Court justice to retire so that a liberal can be appointed in her place are fundamentally wrong

Is it possible that the adults in Congress are finally taking over? That prospect has reared its head in the decision of Republican leaders in both the House and Senate to back away from another threatened government shutdown, by swallowing an uncomplicated vote to raise the federal debt ceiling.

The do-nothing 113

Three years before the next presidential election, Republican also-rans are making noises about trying again. The most conspicuous is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 but quickly faded and pivoted to his own television show to lick his wounds and contemplate his future.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings is in South Africa for Nelson Mandela's memorial, but that doesn't mean he's abandoned domestic policy debates. In fact, Cummings said he and other Democrats in the official delegation have used the trip to engage with Sen. Ted Cruz on Obamacare.

Gov. Martin O'Malley used an address in New Hampshire on Saturday to compare the city he inherited as mayor in 1999 with the nation many believe he now hopes to lead.

Tuesday's high-profile races show voters have lost their taste for tea party politics and prefer pro-business problem-solvers

We will always be a nation of immigrants