President Barack Obama said Tuesday U.S. policy makers should be able to reach a bipartisan consensus on high-profile issues such as health care and energy,
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked Sarah Palin’s much publicized use of notes written on her hands at the daily White House press briefing
Pawlenty: Double Sex Offender Sentences
Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Tuesday proposed more than doubling the prison sentences for some sex offenders in Minnesota.
Even as Republicans publicly welcome President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan confab on health care, some privately worry that he might be laying a trap
A billboard featuring a picture of former U.S. president George W. Bush and the tagline 'Miss me yet?' left residents of Minnesota wondering what it meant and
President Obama held a meeting at the White House Tuesday with Democrat and Republican congressional leaders, saying that he wanted Congress to work together
A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was
The Obama administration was expected to unveil a new plan this week to bring healthier school lunches to children across the U.S.
Tea Party organizers will Friday propose the closest thing yet to a national organizing strategy for the upcoming 2010 midterm elections at a press conference
The Minnesota Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote Friday on a $1 billion construction projects bill, just a day after it was introduced.
Washington confronted a new world order as the Democrats' supermajority died, taking with it much of President Barack Obama's agenda and any certainty of his
A spokesman for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says use of the word "retarded" by a consultant to Texas Gov. Rick Perry was disrespectful. Perry consultant
Republican Scott Brown is poised to take his Senate seat a week earlier than he planned, ending the Democrats' supermajority in just enough time to block
President Barack Obama said Thursday he prays lawmakers can restore a "spirit of civility" to the nation's capital.
It's back to work for hundreds of lawmakers in St. Paul as the 2010 session begins. On the agenda: money, money, money.
For the first time, government programs next year will account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending, federal actuaries predict, as the weak
