U.S. Senate Democrat Herb Kohl was not happy that the “Buffett Rule” failed to get a vote in his chamber.

Paul Krugman calls Paul Ryan's budget plan fraudulent for slashing taxes for corporations and the rich, drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy, and not providing any details on how he would make up a trillion dollar deficit.

This is an updated article detailing the Scott Walker John Doe investigation and whats been discovered and done about it up to this point in time. The investigation is still on going.

Organizers behind the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collected 1 million signatures to be submitted to the state’s Government Accountability Board, dwarfing the required number of names and virtually ensuring that a recall election will take place later this year.

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan have shaken up Capitol Hill with an intriguing, bipartisan plan for reforming Medicare, and also the private-sector employer-sponsored insurance system.

Breakdown of Herman Cain's Chief of Staff Adviser Mark Block's past controversies.

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his Republican allies have been conducting themselves with contempt toward those opposing their policies.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday all he knows about FBI agents seizing items from the home of one of his top agency officials is what he's seen in the media and that his office has not been told anything about the raid.

Former Wisconsin Rep. Mark Neumann (R) has announced that he will run for the state’s open senate seat in 2012 and will likely challenge former Governor Tommy Thompson for the party’s nomination.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser allegedly grabbed fellow Justice Ann Walsh Bradley around the neck in an argument in her chambers earlier this month, according to three knowledgeable sources.

On Sunday, Newt Gingrich blasted Paul Ryan’s Medicare proposal calling it “right-wing social engineering” and “radical.” On Monday, he defended his remarks, blaming the liberal media for stoking a controversy by taking them “out of context.”

Gingrich is a broad-thinking and broad-speaking public intellectual. He can expatiate on a number of issues, from foreign to domestic policy. But he can also rush in where he should not, with verbal grenades that can put his whole movement and party on the defensive.

Meet the Press with Newt Gringrich transcript for May 15, 2011.

Paul Ryan's plan to cut taxes for corporations won't create more investment or more jobs. Firms don't necessarily relocate or expand to an area just because it has lower taxes, and they aren't suffering from a lack of investment funds but rather a lack of profitable investment opportunities.

Brian Deschane - the 27-year-old son of a prominent lobbyist - was demoted on Tuesday following a public uproar over his appointment to a cushy job earning $81,500 per year working in Gov. Scott Walker's administration.

In his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions. Yet he has landed an $81,500/year job in Gov. Scott Walker's admin overseeing environmental and regulatory matters and dozens of employees at the Department of Commerce.

Even though the state is supposedly broke, top officials in Gov. Scott Walker's team were able to scrape together enough money to give a state job to the woman identified as Sen. Randy Hopper's girlfriend. Anything for a political ally.

A Democratic source in Wisconsin sends over a newspaper clip and a campaign brochure detailing Walker’s run for president of the Associated Students of Marquette University during his sophomore year in 1988.

The Capital Times opines that "Gov. Scott Walker is desperate to silence the outcry against his attempt to take away public workers' collective bargaining rights, undermine BadgerCare and SeniorCare, and concentrate decision-making in his office so that he can sell state properties to his cronies in no-bid deals...But nothing has worked. The people have continued to exercise their rights to freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to petition for the redress of grievances."

Ever think "Wow, that's one sexy little lamp, I'd like to commit myself to her forever!" Well, a lieutenant governor candidate from Wisconsin firmly believes that same sex marriage will lead to people marrying furniture and other inanimate objects. You know, because saying it would lead to polygamy or animal marriage just wasn't shocking enough.