A month after calling for an investigation of fellow members of Congress to “find out if they are pro-America or anti-America,” Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is now claiming that the whole episode was “an urban legend.”

Asked about the …

Michigan Sen. Carl Levin warned fellow Democrats Wednesday that it would be “unthinkable” for Congress to let a “dispute over the source of the funds” become an excuse to kill emergency aid to auto companies faced with mounting cash problems …

Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday that former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich will be an issue in a potential confirmation hearing for Eric Holder to become attorney general …

For chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the new Obama administration, the inside-the-beltway rumor mill suggests: 

• Bill Brodsky, the chairman and CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange who has also served as president and CEO …

If you’re eyeing a top energy post in the new Obama administration, releasing a national energy plan seems to ensure your name is at least floated on some sort of short list of contenders.

Google climate director Dan …

Bill Clinton’s apparent willingness to forgo foreign income in order to smooth his wife’s path into the Secretary of State’s office won’t put the couple into the poor house, publicly available financial records show.

Of the $111 million the …

Former deputy National Security Adviser James Steinberg and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Carol Browner were among a group of leaders of policy working groups announced by the Obama-Biden transition team Wednesday.

Full memo follows: …

Former Senator Majority leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) will be secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration, with the delicate mission of shepherding a health-care bill through Congress at a time of punishing budget constraints, a senior Democratic …

Whether it’s relaxing pollution control standards for power plants or allowing loaded weapons into national parks, the Bush Administration is scrambling to approve or change as many federal rules as it can before it hands off power to President-elect Barack …

Negotiations between the Clintons and President-elect Obama’s transition team are rapidly moving toward a formal offer of secretary of State for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), with both sides expecting a formal announcement in the next seven days, according to …