President-elect Obama is warning this morning that the economy “could become dramatically worse” and face unemployment above 10 percent without bipartisan support for a massive government stimulus program that would temporarily add to the record federal budget deficit but would …

Of all the odd couples in Washington, they might be the oddest.

One is a doughy, laid-back Wisconsinite, known for his big parties and boyish grin. The other is a marathon runner from New York who has been …

Team Obama has made its first mistake — again.

When Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary earlier this week, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell declared it “the Obama team’s first misstep.”

But Mitchell had been …

In picking politically untested Denver Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to succeed Democrat Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate, Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, has offered Colorado Republicans a strong opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in 2010, political analysts …

Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin, a close friend of President-Elect Barack Obama and the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate, could be poised to throw a political grenade into the economic stimulus negotiations.

Even the nickname for the legislation in …

Confronting the reality of a shrunken GOP minority, House Republican whip Eric Cantor and his team plan to spend less time counting votes and more time working on their party’s message.

To that end, Cantor — the No. 2 …