With Democrats likely to gain seats in the fall, are we likely to see more party switchers? Probably not.

Senate committee is moving ahead to bring back the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, an agreement that would require expensive reductions in greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide.

Republican senators have failed to step up and support the DISCLOSE Act and nothing is more infuriating than what is happening to the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

Divided government is the new reality and itused to mean deals, but more recently, it's meant deadlock.

Congress is preparing new legislation to limit power plant emissions as if it were writing a recipe for a cake.

New legislative bills would prescribe identical limits on aggregate power plant emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide.

Politically, it's still November 7, 2000: The two parties remain in stalemate.

Should campaign attack ads be treated like political ads run by the candidates and subject to some federal regulation, or are such advertisements free speech?