President Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to meet with Democratic lawmakers on Saturday — the day before a crucial vote on his health care overhaul. Obama wants to make a last push for his top domestic priority after more than a year of debate. White House officials said the House Democratic caucus would meet with the president at 3 ...

Nevadas congressional delegation is scrambling to try to reverse a 5-month-old change in federal appropriations that is costing some of the states rural counties hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. At issue is the way the federal government divvies up royalty and lease payments from geothermal power companies that are using federal land. The 2005 Energy Policy Act allocated ...

Harry Reid Is Dead, one in an occasional series: IÕm not sure who is less praiseworthy these days — the four-term senator stumbling through his re-election partly because he perpetually has his foot in his mouth, or his unimaginative opponents who have nothing to run on but GOP talking points and twisted, inflammatory rhetoric. Beyond the reflexive Reid-haters and vote-blue-all-the-time Democrats ...