While the media has focused on the rise of the Tea Party movement and the success of conservative insurgents in GOP primaries, there is a quiet insurgency taking place under the radar of more moderate Republicans for whom fiscal discipline is not a top priority.

In this age of ballooning U.S. debt, it’s hardly surprising that many Democrats and Republicans are pushing to reduce American military spending. But a closer examination of what’s at stake reveals just how troubling the embrace of defense austerity will prove to be.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and U.S. Representative Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have introduced legislation to curtail and amend federal court consent decrees. Such decrees, often running for many years or even decades, subject the state administration of federal programs (for example, Medicaid and environmental policies) to ongoing judicial oversight and...

Senator Lamar Alexander and Representative Roy Blunt argue on behalf of reforming the consent decree process that they say violates principles of federalism.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is taking a big risk by investing a total of $8 million in Carly Fiorina's election, which could lead to a Tea Party backlash if other candidates lose by razor-thin margins.

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.

DeLay"s political future depends on the equivalent of a royal flush.

John Dingell marks fifty years in Congress;there is a decline in regular order inCongress; andRoy Blunt must be careful about fundraising activities.