Outside the Beltway

Immigration reform may be the next big battle on Capitol Hill, but it’s going to be far different from the one that just concluded.

Nearly two-thirds of House Republicans voted for default. They lost.

The House wasted a day yesterday, now it’s crunch time.

Much like the Tea Party, David Frum wants to make the GOP tent smaller.

The deal emerging out of the talks between Senator Reid and Senator McConnell is about what you’d expect, but it’s probably the best we can expect right now.

Harry and Mitch to the rescue?

It’s now clear that, absent an unlikely miracle, there will be a government shutdown.

If Stevie Wonder were still touring, he wouldn’t be making stops in states with “Stand Your Ground” laws.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

Harry Reid is supposedly making another run at filibuster reform.

The marriage equality battle is entering its next phase.

A case from Nevada provides another example of police abuse, and a possible claim arising under the long-forgotten Third Amendment.

A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.

The possible presidential contender has an op-ed in a rather dubious outlet.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

The Obama Administration has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s other high profile same-sex marriage case.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

The Republican leadership in the House suffered a big loss tonight:.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.