Missile defense advocates are scrambling to shield a system proposed for Eastern Europe from budget cuts or delays in the Obama administration.

During the Bush administration, the plan to place missile interceptors in Poland and a radar system …

Eric Holder’s long and distinguished public service career may now be defined by what he did in his last full day at the Justice Department.

The former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, who’s now President-elect Barack …

Secretary of State

The ongoing drama about the possibility of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) moving to the State Department continued to dominate transition buzz Wednesday. And there were signs that this courtship is moving toward a union of …

Want a staff job in Barack Obama’s White House?

Pretend to be from Montana.

That’s the advice from North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, whose former chief of staff Jim Messina is the director of personnel for …

Steve Stivers and Mary Jo Kilroy are getting a full introduction this week to life in Congress: the candlelight dinners, the ethics briefings, the government-issued BlackBerry.

One of them won’t be back in January to enjoy it. …

If there was any doubt that House Minority Leader John A. Boehner now has a stranglehold on the Republican hierarchy, it was put to rest Wednesday when the only competitive leadership race became a cakewalk.

Boehner foe and Oklahoma …