Lost amid the Republican euphoria surrounding Tuesday's elections is this inconvenient fact: The GOP just got its clock cleaned, again, in another high-stakes House special election. (Yesterday)

The Senate has defeated an amendment that would have kept the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks out of ordinary federal courts--leaving military commissions as the only option for trying the terror suspects. (Yesterday)

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Capitol Hill began a nervous debate yesterday about the course President Barack Obama has set for their party, with some questioning whether they should emphasize job creation over some of the more ambitious items on the president's agenda. (11/05/2009)

In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called on protesters to "scare" members of Congress into killing the proposed health care reform bill. (11/05/2009)

The federal government would be banned from funding sex change operations and other services for transgender individuals if social conservative activists get their way. (11/05/2009)