Judd Gregg

by Mark Silva The man set to take charge of the 2010 Census, a University of Michigan professor who has worked at the great national headcount before, has supported the idea of statistical sampling to offset actual undercounts of minorities.......

Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player? 1) U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who once campaigned to be Commerce secretary, for calling President Obama???s budget ???an extraordinary move to the left.??? 2) Senate Majority...

by Mark Silva A lot of narrative and analysis is devoted this weekend to the First 100 Days of President Barack Obama, a milestone that the president will reach Wednesday -- with his own evening news conference at the White......

by Christi Parsons, Jim Tankersley and Mark Silva It was only three years ago that then-Sen. Barack Obama voted for a delicate political compromise to pay Wyoming and other coal states $1.5 billion in future years from a mine clean-up......

by Mark Silva If you're looking for a preview of what the fight over President Barack Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court might look like, look no further: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will become the ranking Republican member of the......

by Mark Silva Since there is little news value in someone saying they won't run for something, but seeing as how the name of Tom Ridge stood out as a Republican who could give Sen. Arlen Specter a run for......

by Mark Silva "You know, I had an entire speech prepared,'' President Barack Obama said at the opening of his appearance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner last night, "But now that I'm here, I think I'm going to......

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama today nominated Gary Locke, former governor of Washington, to serve as secretary of commerce. The former two-term Democratic governor who left office in 2005, the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he took...

WASHINGTON -- With negotiations continuing on a $700-billion bailout package torpedoed Thursday by House Republicans, President Bush said today that he is optimistic a compromise will emerge. "We are going to get a package passed," Bush said in a...

WASHINGTON -- Saying the nation's economy is on the line, congressional leaders are pushing for a vote today on a $700-billion plan to end the financial system's paralysis and protect taxpayers from having to bear the cost. The 110-page bill that goes to...

by Frank James Maybe God hates the farm bill, too. Many critics have complained about the $300 billion, give or take a few billion, farm bill being an unwarranted giveaway to wealthy farmers at a time when farm incomes are......

by Mark Silva and updated at 12:40 pm The debate is on. Just in time. An unwelcome new story line had developed this week - unwelcome for Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president: Not only had the senior......