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President Barack Obama is planning to meet with union leaders in the next few days in order to address their opposition to a proposed tax on high-cost health care plans, multiple sources tell the Huffington Post. ...

Michael Steele has a message for Republicans criticizing his leadership: Shut up. "I tell them to get a life," he told ABC News Radio on Thursday.

As the House and Senate informally negotiate their respective health care bills, a broad coalition of religious figures, advocacy organizations and local and state elected officials is pushing for higher levels of subsidies for insurance. ...

NRCC spokesman Andy Seré has been taking arguably homophobic swipes at Tennessee state senator Roy Herron, who is running for the House seat being vacated by Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.).

MSNBC talk show host and liberal firebrand Ed Schultz is considering a run for Senate in his home state of North Dakota following the abrupt resignation of Senator Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) on Tuesday evening. ...

Efforts to seek political gain from the botched Christmas Day terrorist attack have resulted in plenty of hyperbole. And GOP Senatorial Candidate Jane Norton didn't disappoint in that regard when delivering remarks on the incident to a room full of Colorado voters on Monday.

Republican operatives are privately furious with RNC Chairman Michael Steele for predicting on Monday night that the GOP will not take over the House of Representatives in 2010. One strategist called the ...

The Salahis weren't the only ones to crash November's State Dinner, the Secret Service now says. A third person not on the White House guest list made it into the event.

Nearly every staff member of Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Parker Griffith's office quit Monday morning in response to his decision to switch parties. His chief of staff resigned, along with his ...

On CNN Sunday morning, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said it was "nuts" for a Republican senator to hold up the confirmation of a Transportation Security Administration chief over concerns about letting employees join a union. ...

Video to come... Some generally awkward television took place Thursday afternoon when Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) -- invited on CNN to discuss the botched Christmas terrorist attack -- was quizzed about ethics allegations that he set up and aided the husband of his mistress with a lobbying gig.

The past year was grueling for Democrats trying to getting major legislation passed -- with most of the focus on health care reform. But 2010 will be filled with more hard fights for the Obama administration.

Democratic leadership in Congress is pledging to make Republican votes against key national security and defense funding measures a feature in the upcoming congressional elections, following the botched Christmas Day terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound airliner. ...

The White House responded sharply to criticism from Dick Cheney over the administration's response to a botched terror attack. In a blog post, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said ...