Ask Osama bin Laden has become President Obama's catchphrase and policy when it comes to the fight against al-Qaeda, but the successful results of America's drone program only provide one answer--and perhaps it's not the only one we want.  The Washington Post's Greg Miller has a piece shedding light on those other sticky and morally ambiguous facets of Obama's expanding, clandestine (and ...

The U.S. Senate has passed a spending bill to the tune of an estimated $182 billion to fund the day-to-day budgets of five Cabinet agencies after dragging its feet for months, the AP reports. Until Tuesday, the Senate had only passed one of the 12 spending annual spending bills it was suppose to have finished by September 30, which is the end of the 2011 fiscal year, The Washington Post ...

Yesterday's East coast earthquake forced the Senate to do something they haven't done in two centuries. (OK, insert your own Senate jokes here.) The Senate yesterday held its first off-site non-ceremonial session in nearly 200 years, The Washington Post's 2chambers reports. Members and staff packed up and moved several blocks away to a conference room [...]

The cliché When a bipartisan group of senators revived this week with a plan to save the United States from default (and thus, the world from implosion) it put the phrase Gang of Six back into heavy rotation. Indeed, in the last few years, terming a bipartisan group of compromising senators a gang has become such a predictable reflex that David Fahrenthold at The Washington Post concluded in ...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's proposal to legalize and tax online poker may become part of a spending package or other must-pass legislation before Congress adjourns for the year, the Washington Post reported.