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Republicans are on offense in scores of House and Senate races as persistent economic woes and lukewarm support for President Barack Obama continue to weaken Democrats' hold on Congress....

The Senate's top Republican signaled Wednesday that a GOP filibuster of Wall Street reform legislation will end.

Brace yourself for another round of speculation about whether Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will run as an independent for Senate. A Quinnipiac Poll out this morning shows Crist badly trailing former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio in the GOP primary.

Two minor violations of reconciliation rules will force the Senate to change the bill and ship it back to the House for final passage.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell promises to do "everything in our power" to oppose the legislation.

Sarah Palin stormed the bestseller list last year with "Going Rogue"-a political memoir whose title coyly referenced the former GOP vice presidential nominee's supposed defiance of the consultants running the McCain campaign.

The Senate's second-ranking Republican leader says he expects GOP lawmakers will vote to extend unemployment benefits this week — derailing a fellow Republican's objections.

Lawmakers in both parties are contemplating for the first time the possibility that the Republicans might recapture the Senate this year, though it's an uphill climb in which the GOP would have to win states that have ...

Challenged by by J.D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.

Dissatisfaction with direction of the U.S., opposition to health-care reform drove the upset election of Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown.