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The Congressional Budget Office has released its assessment of President Obama's budget, and the results aren't pretty. According the analysis, deficits in the next decade will be worse than what the White House has projected, much higher than they would be if we were to follow current law, and even higher than what CBO had forecast last year.

Two glowing brides in matching white gowns and four other same-sex couples made history in Mexico City on Thursday as they wed under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage.

A push by Net neutrality advocates to reclassify ISPs as telecommunications providers has dangerous implications, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.

Now it%u2019s getting interesting. Accordingly the Senate Republicans, they have been told by the Senate Parliamentarian%u2019s Office that reconciliation can only be used to alter a law %u2013 not a bill that has yet to become law. If what the Senate GOP says is true, (there has been no such ruling delivered [...]

The Senate Parliamentarian told Senate Republicans Thursday that they cannot act on fixes to healthcare reform legislation until President Barack Obama signs the underlying bill into law. The ruling would rule out the possibility of the House passing the set of fixes to the Senate bill before they passed the underlying bill, as long as the presid

Pirate Bay is heading back to court on the 28th of September for their appeals trial.The Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday. It has been almost a year since Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström were found guilty of being accessories to crimes against copyright law, and each sentenced to one year in prison

Republicans said guidance they received from the parliamentarian means that President Barack Obama has to sign a Senate health bill into law before the House and Senate can approve changes to it.

Chicago Law School faculty hated Obama "because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool"

The law says that the credit maxes out at $8,000 for an $80,000 home. But at the Detroit office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the rule seems open to interpretation. O’Keefe asks a staffer, What if I bought a place for $50,000, but the seller and I agreed to write down $80,000 as the purchase price?“Flip it any way you want,”

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block the District of Columbia's gay marriage law, freeing the city to issue its first marriage licenses to same-sex couples the following day.