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Energy and Environment

Raise campaign funds for Obama, get green energy grants

Kelly Cohen · September 21, 2013 12:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden greets supporters after speaking at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual fundraising steak fry dinner Sunday in Indianola, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

With friends like these, Joe Biden could charm Iowa in 2016

Rebecca Berg · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Dennis Hastert was Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Hastert Rule (according to Dennis Hastert)

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Larry Summers was reportedly President Obama's choice to take over from Ben Bernanke in January. But it was Summers who acknowledged, in a letter to the president, the reality of his nomination prospects in light of liberal opposition: Any confirmation process would be "acrimonious" and would damage the president.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

On the Slide: Larry Summers loses out on his dream job

Joseph Lawler · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas: âI hope that every Senate Republican will stand together and oppose cloture on the bill in order to keep the House bill intact and not let Harry Reid add Obamacare funding back in." (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives urge Senate GOP to filibuster Obamacare defunding bill

David M. Drucker · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

House passes government spending bill stripping out Obamacare funding, fight heads to Senate

House passes government spending bill stripping out Obamacare funding, fight heads to Senate

Susan Ferrechio · September 20, 2013 4:00 am

Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and Mark Pryor, D-Ark., are among Senate Democrats facing re-election next year in states that supported Mitt Romney's presidential bid promised to defend Obamacare during the upcoming budget fight by voting against any measure that defunds the health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Red-state Democrats vow to defend Obamacare

Joel Gehrke · September 20, 2013 12:00 am

Obama attends DNC fundraiser

Obama attends DNC fundraiser

Darlene Superville · September 19, 2013 5:26 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will deliver the keynote at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner in Iowa. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Chuck Schumer to headline Iowa Democratic dinner

Rebecca Berg · September 19, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Sen. Harry Reid ‘prepared to endure public backlash’ to protect Obamacare

Joel Gehrke · September 19, 2013 12:00 am

Here’s an Obama exit strategy everybody can love

Noemie Emery · September 18, 2013 12:00 am

Rep. Steve Scalise played a crucial role in whipping votes for a flood insurance bill that split congressional conservatives, drawing notice on Capitol Hill at a time when ambitious House Republicans are jockeying for leadership positions in 2015. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Steve Scalise: Defund Obamacare vote will hurt vulnerable Senate Democrats

Rebecca Berg · September 18, 2013 12:00 am