Soon-to-be Utah senator Mike Lee is already shaking things up on Capitol Hill by requesting public, recorded voting for earmark legislation.

Just when it looked like the job market was going to rebound, recent unemployment numbers revealed a disappointing reality.

After the longest presidential campaign in our history, president-elect Barack Obama now has ten weeks to prepare to govern.

The five areas to guide long-term reforms are: 1) government policies to subsidize affordable housing, 2) rules defining the limits of safety net protection , 3) policies governing financial institution consolidation and competition, 4) prudential regulation and supervision, and 5) rules ensuring transparency in financial transactions and positions.

Could Obama's energy plan actually work?

Last week I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario.

Whatever the voters' feelings about the presidential candidates, Americans feel pretty good about their members of Congress.

Mitt Romney was the John Kerry of the debate. He was far more articulate than Perry, but it was Romney who made the gaffe that will almost certainly appear in campaign ads that are probably being written as you read this, when he declared: "There are a lot of reasons not to elect me."