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The ousting of Honduras President Manuel Zelaya caused a late-breaking Republican effort to punish the Organization of American States for its support of the coup.

From Terry Frank : The average House score for this index is a dismal 38 percent and the average Senate score is an even worse 35 percent.

F rom the political notebook: * Gov. Jan Brewer used her veto pen to increase spending by hundreds of millions of dollars, and perhaps billions.

Conservative activists are angry at eight Republican members of the House of Representatives for voting in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act , which passed the House June 26.

The two Republicans who didn't vote: Jeff Flake and John Sullivan . Here's why: Flake had a 'family conflict' and Sullivan is undergoing alcohol treatment.

By Naomi Hatch "I think we are all aware at this point that we have some serious consideration regarding the paper mill and the inability they have to compete on the current playing field," said Paul Watson, Snowflake Town Manager at a council meeting on Tuesday, June 23.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake is catching flak from conservatives for missing a key vote Friday on a "cap-and-trade" climate-change bill that is strongly opposed by the GOP.

In the 2009 federal budget, Congress doled out about $18 billion in earmarks - those pet projects that often sound like a ridiculous waste of money because ... they are.

For weeks, President Obama has been under increasing pressure from civil rights groups, Latino elected officials and Democratic liberals to do something - anything - to rescue comprehensive immigration reform from political purgatory.

I listed them earlier tonight , but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again.

President Barack Obama began a push for comprehensive immigration reform Thursday, meeting with members of Congress to seek bipartisan help in reaching an accord on the politically explosive issue.

House Republican staffers said the Federal Reserve tried to control the timing of disclosures of rising losses at Merrill Lynch & Co.

There is no doubt that headway has been made in the battle to reform earmarks, at least among House Republicans that is.

As the plane flies, it is more than 20 miles from Brenda Bilek's house to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer proposed a temporary tax hike this winter just as members of her own party were coalescing under a populist anti-tax, anti-spending banner and as an invigorated conservative movement was sharpening its small- government message.

WASHINGTON a ' Here's how Arizona members of Congress voted in the week ending June 19.

The Big Question for Friday, June 19: Is Obama injecting the government too much into business affairs? See responses below from Rep.

Scandals surrounding campaign contributions and earmarks erode the public trust in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Letterman ridicules Palin A A June 10: CQPolitics.coma TMs Craig Crawford talks about the new feud between late night talk show host David Letterman and Gov.

Angry lawmakers today railed against the American government's "threatening" behaviour in pressurising Bank of America to buy struggling Merrill Lynch last year, accusing officials of bullying the bank into a shotgun wedding at a $20bn cost to taxpayers.