A Texas lawmaker found herself effectively stuck in her seat Monday, planted on the House floor after refusing to sign a political "permission slip"-a GOP-mandated form requiring Department of Public Safety escorts for Democrats who broke quorum over redistricting.

Vulnerable Republican incumbents and GOP fiscal hawks are teaming up over a historically contentious issue: earmarks.

The congresswoman tried to justify the government’s planned repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s landmark “endangerment finding” to a crowd of voters at a town hall event in the rural town of Pinedale, Wyoming.

New York must plan nearly $3 billion a year in new Medicaid costs to cover for 500,000 people losing coverage due to the recent federal spending cuts

The results come as a poll from Napolitan News Service from last week found that voters remain divided on whether their personal finances are improving or getting worse. The survey revealed that 30% claimed they are getting better, while 31% said the opposite.

A member of the president’s own party is giving him flak over a lucrative White House deal he struck after digging his buddy’s company out of a $5.5 billion hole.

A Republican screening committee voted to endorse Appeals Judge Ron Lewis for the Ohio Supreme Court, over Justice Pat Fischer, who is bidding to switch seats.

Tyson Shepard, Husted's communications director, wrote in a statement that Husted offers "Ohio's values and solutions to fix a broken Washington." Newsweek reached out to Brown's