Scott Garrett

WASHINGTON -- It seems the Republicans have run out of squishy moderates to purge. Now they're starting to run conservatives out of town for being insufficiently doctrinaire. Exhibit A: The defenestration of Tom Cole. Cole, a deeply conservative...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., will be a guest on ‘Meet the Press.' Photo credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images UPDATE: THE REVISED GUEST LIST IS AT THE BOTTOM: The fiscal cliff, Susan Rice and Benghazi will be topics on the Sunday morning...

Republican Virginia governor cuts budget, invests in highways...

Suppose you put $10,000 into an account with an investment advisor who promises to double your money every year. Two years later your account statement says you've got $33,000, so you happily withdraw $5,000. It seems too good to be......

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro warned on Friday that her agency doesn't have enough money to adequately police Wall Street, let alone draft dozens of new regulations required under the financial reform law. And that's before...

The Obama administration on Friday released its long-awaited proposal for overhauling the mortgage market, calling for gradually shutting down bailed-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and reducing the government's now huge role in housing finance. The 32-...

The federal commission that investigated the financial crisis descended into partisanship, with its Democratic majority pushing to find "villains and victims" rather than the true causes, the panel's top Republican said Wednesday. "It was clear from the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The long-running Washington debate over whether and how to beef up ethical standards for Wall Street brokers who give financial advice shows no sign of ending. Some industry lobbyists are even stepping up their lobbying on the so-...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators urged federal securities regulators to move quickly on fundamental changes to how credit-rating agencies are compensated, a step they said will reduce the type of...

WASHINGTON – With Washington stalemated over the coming “sequester,” one Republican lawmaker  suggested swapping the steep budget cuts for a rollback of President Obama’s regulatory agenda as a way around the impasse. The idea is...

Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 16 - 22 in PDF format This week's TV Movies     -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America Coverage of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Situation Room With Wolf...

Wall Street might have turned its back on Democrats this election, but that's not the case among Maryland investment firms. The vast majority of contributions to candidates by T. Rowe Price employees went to Democrats. And Democrats were the...