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Former vice president Al Gore testified before both House and Senate congressional committees on Wednesday, giving both houses and both parties time to consider his "inconvenient truths" about global warming —and forcing members to choose between...

Yesterday, the House Armed Services Committee unanimously passed reforms, in the wake of the Walter Reed scandal, to improve the ability of wounded soldiers to get needed health care. CQ Today notes that the bill recognizes that the privatization of key functions has...

David Roberts, over at Gristmill, is liveblogging the Gore hearings, and has a colorful summation of Gore's 10-point plan to stop global warming. No. 1: immediate carbon freeze! Then a program of reductions -- 90% reductions by 2050! Wow, that's ballsy. Second: reduce...

Al Gore's congressional testimony has just begun, and he announced he's delivering 516,000 petition signatures calling for immediate action to stop global warming. More than 200,000 of those have come in since Thursday. A forceful beginning to historic testimony.

The preview to tomorrow's congressional testimony from Al Gore happened yesterday, a House committee hearing spotlighting the Bush Administration's attempts to prevent our government climate scientists from telling the truth about global warming. As Environment &...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards today is putting forth what he is calling an “aggressive but achievable” energy plan, elements of which mirror the kind of bold energy initiative that the Apollo Alliance has been urging presidential...

While the political lowlight of the week looks to be the ongoing fallout of the Prosecutor Purge, the political highlight is sure to come tomorrow with Al Gore's historic testimony to the House and Senate on climate change. Leading up to the hearing, Gore has been...

Today's LA Times offers a seemingly well-intentioned article telling seniors ways they can obtain cheaper prescription drugs. But in doing so, it puffs up Big Pharma -- making it seem like pharmaceutical companies are already doing all they can for seniors. At the...

Today's CQ Weekly has a big piece on how coal-state lawmakers are "well-positioned" in Congress to shape global warming legislation. And they risk falling into the trap of thinking strong legislation will be bad for jobs in their districts. The article focuses on...

Donald Rumsfeld has been axed. Tom DeLay cut and ran. "Scooter" Libby stands convicted. Michael "you're doing a heck of a job" Brown was tossed. Newt Gingrich disgraced himself. And now, the clueless attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is surely the next to go. Why...