According to Charlie Black, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December was an "unfortunate event," but it was a turning point in John McCain's primary campaign. McCain's "knowledge and ability to talk about it re-emphasized that this is the guy who's ready to be commander in chief. And it helped us."

Senator McCain's general election campaign depends even more on his national security and foreign policy experience, his claim that he's ready to be commander in chief. McCain has traveled the world, he knows the leaders.

Not yet having served three full terms in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brad Miller already has become a respected national figure. But he also has his pulse on the pocketbook issues affecting North Carolina's 13th Congressional District. Democrats in that district should again make him their nominee.

“Franklin Roosevelt said that government should be the trustee for the whole nation, for the whole people and we haven’t had that. We’ve had a government that’s on the side of powerful interest groups and not on the side of ordinary Americans… We need to put Government on the side of ordinary Americans.” -- Brad Miller

By Jessica Holzer

Lawmakers are scrutinizing a failed Democratic attempt last week to gut a key provision of the 2005 bankruptcy law as a barometer for a more controversial change to the bankruptcy code.

Last Wednesday, 52 House Democrats joined Republicans to defeat a measure sponsored by Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) that would have made it far easier for people to wipe away student debts in bankruptcy. Had it passed, it would have largely undone a provision of

By Benton Ives, CQ Staff

The House sent the Senate sweeping legislation Thursday aimed at slowing the pace of foreclosures and stimulating the real estate market.

Members approved the legislation as three separate amendments to a narrower Senate-passed housing measure (HR 3221).