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The United States Senate might not be dysfunctional as you think. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explained in his Rewrite segment. Read More

Republican Rep. John Runyan of New Jersey met with House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday, telling Hardball that Boehner admitted he was to blame. Read More

As America waits for Washington to address the gun control debate, more states are providing tips on what to do in the horrific event of a mass shooting spree. Read More

New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone is accusing Speaker Boehner of dragging his feet on a vote for Superstorm Sandy relief because it only helps blue states, and not red states. Read More

From legislation about feral hogs to wheelies, several of the less high-profile laws that took effect at the start of 2013 have a healthy dose of bizarre. Read More

Joan Walsh of Salon.com and Lauren Ashburn of the Daily Beast said the criticism from the right could be driven by the prospect Clinton could run for president in 2016. Read More

The Violence Against Women Act died a quiet death last night. Why, exactly? Read More

The negative language used against Speaker John Boehner is unprecedented. And some of the worst of the backlash is coming from members of his own party. Read More

Liberals shouldn't just fight to prevent cuts to the welfare state; they should be trying to grow it. Read More

In the latest hint Brown may be gearing up for a bid, he mocked the Democrat most likely to be his opponent, Congressman Ed Markey, in a radio appearance Wednesday morning. Read More

The former Republican vice presidential candidate may not have wanted to talk about the fiscal cliff, but he did want to talk Rose Bowl; he may not have wanted to vote for the fiscal cliff deal, but he did in the end. Read More

Speaker Boehner's decision to deny a vote on emergency aid for storm victims is met with a wave of bipartisan outrage. Read More

It was not obvious the fiscal cliff deal would be successful in preventing cuts to social security and other social programs important to Unions. Read More

House leadership told legislators yesterday that it would not vote on an aid bill for super-storm Sandy victims in the lame-duck session, following an all-out war over the fiscal cliff bill. Read More

Illinois lawmakers could vote this week to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Read More

Republicans and Democrats joined together to bash House GOP leadership for backing out on a promise to vote on Sandy relief spending last night. Read More

As elected officials discuss ways to address gun violence following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., one New Jersey township mayor is taking action first and placing armed police officers in its schools. Read More

Republican congressman Tom Cole said he would "certainly" vote to approve the Senate's bipartisan fiscal cliff compromise. Read More

A Senate Homeland Security Committee report faulted the State Department for security failures at the U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, it also widened blame to the Department of Defense, the U.S. intelligence community, and the Obama administration. Read More

The Senate approved a deal to avert the fiscal cliff in the early hours of the new year. Read More