Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet says Delaware Senator Joe Biden is moving up on Barack Obama's short list...

Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate failed this morning to force floor votes on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. In the Senate, minority leader Paul McKinley asked colleagues "to sign a petition that would allow Senate Joint...

Yesterday the National Republican Congressional Committee gave another sign that Jim Gibbons is their man in the five-way primary for Iowa's third Congressional district. Gibbons is among a dozen or so Republicans who have been added to the NRCC's list...

Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama released holds on most of the Obama administration nominees he has been blocking, the Washington Post reports, citing a statement from Shelby's office: "The purpose of placing numerous holds was to get the White...

The Iowa Attorney General's Office filed the first criminal charges in connection with the film tax credit scandal today. Tom Wheeler, who stepped down in September as manager of the office, faces a charge of non-felonious misconduct in office....

State legislators have allowed clean water "anti-degradation" rules to stand, a step toward filling a significant hole in Iowa's water quality regulations. A last-ditch effort by Republicans failed to win enough votes on the Iowa legislature's...