House Democratic leaders yesterday agreed to meet President Bush's bottom-line spending limit on a sprawling, half-trillion-dollar domestic spending bill, dropping their demands for as much as $22 billion in additional spending but vowing to shift funds from the president's priorities to theirs.

Yesterday on PBS’s Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique is actually more like “swimming“: GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture? SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It’s like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that’s beside the point. It’s not being used.

Democrat: Impeach Bush to get children's healthcare

When Democrats took control of Congress in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to jointly push an ambitious agenda to counter 12 years of Republican control.

Blog: The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved contempt resolutions against Karl Rove and Joshua Bolten, the White House chief of staff.

By a narrow margin, the Senate today failed again to block a Republican-led filibuster on an energy bill as GOP leaders made a stand against a $21.8 billion, 10-year tax package that would have extended incentives for wind and solar energy and reduced some tax breaks for oil companies.

Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, demanding the flamboyant clergyman's financial records since 2001.

Nobel laureate Al Gore said Thursday the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions.

Geography Surveyed: Louisiana Data Collected: 12/06/2007 - 12/10/2007 Release Date: 12/12/2007 9:35 AM ET Sponsor: Roll Call Newspaper, Capitol Hill In Louisiana Senate Race, GOP Challenger Kennedy Hot On Heels Of Incumbent Landrieu: In an election for U.S. Senator from Louisiana today, 12/13/07, Incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu is locked in an intriguing battle with former Democrat turned Republican John Kennedy. Landrieu gets 46% today, Kennedy gets 42%, within the survey's 3.9% margin of sampling error, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.

A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying "Happy Hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday.

The chief judge of the military commissions at the naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, once wrote a paper that criticized the Bush administration’s plan to use military commissions to try suspects held there.

(updated below - Update II) In the world of the Beltway pundit, Bush Dog Representative, and Democratic strategist, this is how Democrats prove how "strong" and tough they are and avoid being demonized as "weak" and "soft"; this is all just from today: From The Hill: From The Washington Post: From CNN: From The Hill: And this passage from the CNN article -- in which Democrats try to explain that they didn't completely capitulate in every single way possible -- is one of the most pity-inducing of the year, and there is a very healthy competition for that distinction:WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic lawmakers and staffers privately say they're ...

How a former governor with no money, no organization and no real policy platform or international know-how — but with lots of religious faith, populist sentiment and folksy friendliness — has changed the dynamics of the Republican presidential race.