Reserve 501(c)(4) status for real social-welfare organizations, and require any group doing any electioneering to register as a political committee.

Senators are angry that tech giant Apple isn't paying its fair share. I'm not talking about taxes. This is about campaign contributions and lobbying fees.

Cantor has learned that the tea-party movement he helped foster won’t fall in line behind his efforts to push an alternative conservative agenda.

Congressional hearings held by members of one party to bash mercilessly an administration of the other party are nothing new.

Rude, entitled, arrogant and off- putting: That’s how the conventionally wise in Washington are characterizing Ted Cruz, the conservative new senator from Texas. It’s a better description of the critics themselves, who are inadvertently helping Cruz build his national fan base.

There are two power centers in the Senate Republican Conference. One is the official leadership under Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The second is the Tea Party Troika of Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul.

If Baucus, like most senators who retire, lands on K Street, he'll be among old friends.

Summers painted a rosy scenario, saying that the frustration people feel at the slowness and gridlock of recent years is misplaced — that things were just as bad, if not worse, in the early 1960s; that the failures to enact health-care and welfare reform in the Nixon years were a good thing; and that more gridlock, not less, would have been helpful during the George W. Bush years.

Immigration legislation is immensely complicated, with many moving parts and provisions that can have real world consequences affecting millions of people.

Both parties have changed; Democrats have grown less heterogeneous as the contingent of Blue Dogs has declined. Yet the most significant changes have come from, and been driven by, Republicans.