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After approaching Jesse B. Watters, Bill O’Reilly’s ambush enthusiast, Think Progress asks him what he thinks about the revelation that a Fox News insider reports that the ‘fair and balanced’ station, fabricates the news.

President says senators will have to explain why they oppose his $447B plan, which he argues the country desperately needs Read more by Brian Montopoli on CBS News' Political Hotsheet.

At Netroots Nation today, Van Jones sought to rally attendees after the Senate leadership put plans for a climate protection bill on the back burner: "This thing is not over." He's right, for one very simple reason.

A new bill has been introduced in the Senate that would provide up to $10 billion to aid in early electric vehicle adoption.

The White House said Monday that President Obama wants to pay for his $447 billion jobs bill by raising taxes on the wealthy and business.

The House of Representatives voted 147-281 against an amendment offered by RSC Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), which would have cut an additional $20 billion in spending from H.R.1, the bill to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. Heritage Action for America was an outspoken proponent of the amendment.

Hours after taking over as Wisconsin governor on Monday, Republican Gov. Scott Walker followed through on a campaign pledge and authorized Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to challenge the new federal health care law. Van Hollen, a Republican, had asked Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle for approval last year to challenge the law but was denied. The Democratic-controlled Legislature also refused. Walker said while campaigning for governor that if elected, he would authorize Wisconsin to join a lawsuit brought by 20 other states challenging the law. Van Hollen spokesman Bill Cosh said Monday that no decision had been made whether Wisconsin would join that lawsuit or file its own. Walker's authorization allows Van Hollen to take any legal action he deems appropriate.

Pastor James Brown, Jr., of Barnesville, Georgia, sent a video today expressing support for H.B. 54, a bill to allow individuals to carry in places of worship. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told reporters in the wake of the Arizona shooting, he’s forming legislation to permit...

The Senate is taking up a bill Tuesday that would repeal about $2 billion a year in tax breaks for the five biggest oil companies, a Democratic response to $4-a-gallon gasoline that might fare better when Congress and the White House negotiate a deal later this year to increase the government's ability to borrow.

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