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With Sen. Hillary Clinton on all four major network Sunday shows, chances were better than usual that our Watchdog question would get asked. And it was. Both ABC's This Week and CBS' Face The Nation essentially asked if she expects to leave troops in Iraq...

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

The big news from Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Monday health care speech in Iowa is that she is going to make a campaign for health care for all — not just small changes but fundamental reform — a central element of her campaign for the White House. Before the...

MoveOn.org runs an ad exposing an effort to give the public misleading information about the effectiveness of our strategy in Iraq, making it impossible for individuals to make informed decisions about the direction of our foreign policy. Seventy-two members of the...

The Republican obstruction campaign continues. Yesterday, the Republican minority in the Senate filibustered and blocked two measures that had majority support in the House, and bipartisan majority support in the Senate. Republicans continue to filibuster at a pace...

MSNBC just previewed President George W. Bush's news conference scheduled for 10:45 AM ET today. The network's White House correspondent said he'll be addressing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and that Bush wants "more" health insurance for children....

The announcement of Sen. Hillary Clinton's health insurance plan is notable for two reasons. First, Clinton joins the other leading Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards in embracing the core element from Jacob Hacker's...

This week, one million petition signatures supporting the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- thousands of which were collected by Campaign for America's Future -- were delivered to Congress by MoveOn.org and SEIU. While this massive...

Once again, a minority of Senate Republicans led by Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell blocked the ability of a bipartisan majority to move a piece a legislation, this time a bill that would allow the District’s representative in the House to have a full vote on the House...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program battle — soon to heat up once Bush vetoes a bipartisan compromise and attention turns to the politically tenuous House Republicans — is about two things. One, of course, is the children themselves: 6 million...