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Senate Finance Committee Chair urged agency to look into conservative nonprofits

‘Serious questions about whether such organizations are operating in compliance’

Montana senator says it felt ‘great’ to decide on retirement

Montana Democrat will leave Senate next year

Democrat proposal may not pass, but could hurt GOP in 2012 elections

Influence peddling continues as public is excluded from deficit-reduction talks

Hatch says an amendment is needed because laws against the practice are currently unconstitutional

Environmentalists sue to block the rule, say it is ‘not fair for the wolf, and it’s certainly not good for our democracy’

Environmentalists are howling over a policy ‘rider’ in the spending bill that delists wolves from an endangered species list in some states

Those who’ve confronted representatives with vitriolic language speak out

What can the Republican party accomplish while wielding the power of the House?

Senate lawmakers expect a bipartisan group of negotiators to announce a deal in the coming days that would extend the Bush tax cuts for two years

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl says that he expects a tax-cut compromise to include extensions of unemployment benefits and lower tax rates for all income brackets

Two plans will be presented for cloture votes, one with a $250,000 threshold and another with a $1 million threshold for top earner bracket

President Obama’s debt commission gained bipartisan support but fell short of the 14 votes needed to pass the their plan

Robert Gibbs said Thursday that there is no deal imminent with Republicans on tax cut extension

Coburn says America is ‘rotting’ from too much dependence on government

Senate Republicans’ ban on earmarks – money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest – was short-lived

Dems are pushing for a vote while GOP claims legislation will grant amnesty to 2.1 million illegals