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Five senators announced Thursday an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would hasten the end of America’s longest war. (more)

Veteran Republican strategist Roger Stone says a serious libertarian third-party candidate could pose a “great danger” to the GOP’s hopes of winning back the White House in 2012. (more)

Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz, currently polling second among Republican primary candidates and rising fast with the assistance of high-profile endorsements, has found himself the subject of a minor controversy. (more)

Republican Sen. Rand Paul is working to hold up the ninth reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act — now known as No Child Left Behind — set to take place Wednesday. The act is the “most expansive” piece of federal education legislation ever passed. (more)

A group of Senate Republicans marched out their own jobs plan Thursday in a direct challenge to President Obama, who has been blasting Congress for not passing his jobs bill. (more)

Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul isn’t the only Paul in Iowa. The Huffington Post reports that his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has joined his father and supporters of the campaign at the Iowa State Fair. (more)

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul announced early Wednesday morning that he plans to push the Senate to hold a vote of no confidence in Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. (more)

Tea Party favorite Sen. Rand Paul is planning a filibuster sometime next week to bring the debt ceiling negotiations to the Senate, the Huffington Post is reporting. (more)

The Senate has voted 47-51 against an amendment to eliminate the White House’s ability to appoint and fund policy czars. Republican Sens. David Vitter of Louisiana, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Dean Heller of Nevada and Chuck Grassley of Iowa, introduced the amendment yesterday. (more)

Politicians are nerdy at heart, even former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, who seemed to think he had the hottest abs on Capitol Hill (he clearly never saw the June issue of Men’s Health magazine). When politicos aren’t dressing to impress, un-dressing to impress, or maintaining a serious image, they resemble regular citizens. As observed by one onlooker, Sen. Rand Paul keeps it casual on the metro and is unafraid to slouch a little. Former President George W. Bush wears sunglasses at night. Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel cozies up to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. These folks usually look flattering, but like the rest of us, they have their awkward moments. Scroll through our slideshow to see some of our favorite nerdtastic, dorky and odd pics of political figures. (more)

After days of hype, 47 conservative organizations and more than 20 members of Congress officially announced their support for the “Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge” during a press conference Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill. It was a shining moment in the spotlight for the conservative movement. (more)

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul told the Transportation Security Administration today that it should end what he called the “universality of insult” of random pat-downs of passengers. (more)

TheDC’s Senior Editor Jamie Weinstein talks Rand Paul, economic troubles on RT’s “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” on June 6. (more)

Over the past half century, the presidential nominating process has slowly evolved to serve two purposes for candidates — to vet their potential electability…and sell stuff. The possibility of Donald Trump using the season finale of The Apprentice to make a big presidential announcement highlights this phenomenon. (more)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that he’s considering a filibuster of the budget agreement to fund the government for the remainder of this fiscal year. (more)

There’s been a push for decades to constitutionally require Congress to balance federal spending with revenue. And a current incarnation of this push would cap spending at 18 percent of GDP, which all 47 Republicans in the U.S. Senate have signed off on. But how far will the GOP take it? (more)

Some lawmakers and market analysts are expressing rising concerns that a demand for capital by earthquake-ravaged Japan could lead it to sell off some of its huge holdings of U.S.-issued debt, leaving the federal government in an even tighter financial pinch. (more)

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul visited South Carolina on Monday. According to the Post and Courier, Paul’s visit to the key primary state could signal that the freshman senator is considering a presidential run in 2012. (more)

After the midterm elections last fall, speculation mounted about the actual effect the newly elected Tea Party candidates would have in Washington. Would they remain loyal to the principles of fiscal discipline they preached on the campaign trail or would the election be a hollow victory lacking in substantive change? We received the first clue to the answer to that question this week when many of the Tea Party favorites expressed their opposition to voting for the continuing resolution. (more)