Frank James

by Frank James A quick guided tour of some of the morning's most important or interesting, or both, Washington-related stories. The Army made its recruiting goals for the for the...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raid, January 2007. Credit: Mark Avery/AP Photo. by Frank James Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and members of his department have reason to be more...

by Frank James Just to close the loop on a story we've been following in The Swamp today, the House Foreign Affairs committee voted 27 to 21 to pass the...

Rep. Ron Paul at the Republican presidential candidates' debate, Oct. 9, 2007. Credit: Geoff Robins - AFP/Getty Images. by Frank James The umbrella group Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, whose...

by Matthew Hay Brown House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Democrats plan to bring an Armenian-genocide resolution which has angered the Turkish government to the House floor before they...

by Frank James Much of the world acknowledges the genocide of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1923 , a genocide that's often called...

Sen. Barack Obama in Aiken, S.C. on Oct., 6, 2007. Credit: Brett Flashnick/AP photo by Frank James Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe columnist, has a column today about the flap...

by Frank James Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney pointedly attacked each other over their fiscal records in their former jobs as New York's mayor and Massachusetts's governor,...

by Frank James If you're a Democratic lawmaker who wants to make the point that, in your opinion, the Bush Administration has run roughshod over Americans' civil liberties through its...

by Naftali Bendavid Amid polls showing scant public approval for Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is significantly stepping up her public appearances, visiting Sunday talk shows, holding regular press conferences,...