Impeachment

Federal authorities in Mexico are seeking to keep three former governors from leaving the country, apparently as part of a corruption investigation....

felipe calderon, guadalajara, mexico, drug war: Mexican President Felipe Calderon has once again clashed with a citizen angry about the effects of the country's drug war, this time during a speech in which a man in the audience shouted, "How many more...

Members of Mexico’s ruling party on Sunday chose former congresswoman Josefina Vazquez Mota as their long-shot candidate for president--the first time a woman will vie for the country’s top job on behalf of a major political faction....

Mexico, United States, guns, drug war: Mexican President Felipe Calderon used a two-day visit to ultra-violent Ciudad Juarez to deliver a pointed message to the United States. Standing a stone's throw from the U.S. border, and flanked by some of his...

Responding to writer Samantha O'Dell (Re. Congress should pass jobs act, Oct. 7): House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's actual quotation was: "The president continues to say, 'Pass my bill in its entirety,' and as I've said from the outset, the all-or-...

Government contractors applauded congressional action Wednesday to repeal a federal law that would have postponed millions of dollars in payments to Maryland companies, potentially wounding the region's fragile economy. In a rare display of...

Reports that President Obama and House GOP leaders were closing in on a deficit-cutting deal Thursday that wouldn't necessarily increase tax revenues led Democrats to erupt like Mount Vesuvius, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told The Washington Post. That'...

Municipal officials are breathing a little easier after receiving word that a major revenue stream will not be affected by the budget approved by state …...

Earlier this month, Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law banning organizations that perform abortions in Indiana from receiving federal Medicaid money. So far, the courts haven't intervened but the federal government has signaled that the law is in...

Our founders knew that republics morphed into democracies with time and therefore sought to limit the power and scope of this new government that they were creating.  The Constitution they developed defines the functions and responsibilities of the...

Local officials have come out against the governor's proposal to withhold local government tax revenue if legislators reject a borrowing plan to pay Illinois’ bills. …...

Jane Harman has a new address -- on Pennsylvania Avenue. No, not that address. She's the new honcho at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Starting in 1992, she won nine elections in Southern California's coastal 36th Congressional...