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March 03

Congress has the right to appoint a lawyer to defend a law’s constitutionality if the executive branch declines to do so.

March 03

Editors and reporters discuss Newt Gingrich’s campaign exploration and President Obama’s next move in Libya.

March 03

Party registrations are up in small and large areas.

March 03

The truth about a film crew following Jon Huntsman? It’s for a documentary about U.S.-China diplomacy.

March 03

President Obama took a shot at football players and team owners, telling them that “for an industry that’s making $9 billion a year,” they ought to be able to avoid a lockout.

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February 26

The On the Hill column looks at a budget battle without earmarks.

February 26

The latest political news from today’s Times, the president’s weekly address and weekend happenings in Washington.

February 25

President George W. Bush canceled a speaking engagement Friday because the group that invited him, the Young Presidents Organization, also asked Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to take the conference stage.

February 25

Chris Christie sat down with The Caucus Wednesday morning for an interview and the Lightning Round.

February 25

Jeremy Bernard will be the first openly gay person to serve as the White House social secretary.

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February 18

Democrats late Friday night proposed to maintain expenditures generally at 2010 levels through March 31 and avert a federal shutdown.

February 18

President Obama will travel to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador to discuss a broad range of issues with both the leaders and citizens of those countries, the White House said on Friday.

February 18

A highly partisan debate on an omnibus spending bill leads to passage of many hot-button amendments.

February 18

Responding to a query Senator Scott Brown, the commission gives a qualified yes to the use of campaign funds to promote books.

February 18

Jeff Bingaman, a five-term Democrat, is the party’s fourth incumbent to relinquish a seat.

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Some of the Tea Party’s most prominent candidates never made it to Washington (think Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell of Delaware), but the movement that perhaps best embodied the anti-incumbent sentiment of 2010 has nonetheless gained a toehold in the upper chamber of Congress. And on Thursday it became official: Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the Tea Party patron, and the freshmen senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah held the first official gathering of the Senate Tea Party Caucus.

But other newly elected Republican senators have refused to join, including some who had Tea Party support in the fall campaign, like Senators Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kelly A. Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Marco Rubio of Florida. And Mr. DeMint, who has been flirting with the idea of a presidential run, was the only nonfreshman senator to sign on.

With its small membership, the Tea Party Caucus amounts to fewer than 10 percent of Republicans in the Senate, making it a minority within the minority.

Mr. Lee, in an interview on CNN, said size did not matter.

“It’s a relatively small group at this point, and I don’t necessarily think it needs to be big,” Mr. Lee said. “We’re not intending this to be a full-blown, influential caucus. We’re intending this to be a conduit for information to pass between individuals who sympathize with the Tea Party movement and the United States Senate.”

Mr. Lee added, “In time, it may grow.”

The House Tea Party Caucus, led by Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, held its first event late last year.

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President Obama delivers his State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern time, and The Caucus will be live blogging it, starting an hour ahead. Come back here at 8 p.m. for the latest reporting about what we expect Mr. Obama to say. And then stay with us as we offer context to his speech and take note of the atmospherics.

On our nytimes.com homepage, we’ll be streaming the address live right when it starts at 9 p.m. EST. The Republican response, given this year by Representative Paul Ryan, a House leader from Wisconsin, will be broadcast immediately afterwards. Later on the Web site, we’ll have an interactive video feature that analyzing the speech, a graphical look at the number of times presidents have used selected words, slide shows and much, much more.

Want to offer your comments now? Join @nytimes on Twitter by using #NYTsotu to talk about the address. Selected tweets will appear on The Caucus .

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Meeting with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his support for fixing the country’s “broken immigration system” — but gave little indication that in this year’s remaining lame-duck congressional session, his administration could win passage of key legislation granting legal status to some illegal immigrant students. The [...]