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Rep. McIntyre one of three Democrats to vote to repeal health care law

By | 01.19.11 | 6:21 pm

U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina was one of three Democrats to vote Wednesday for the repeal of the federal health care law, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The vote count came to 245-189, with all Republicans voting for repeal.

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Blue Dog Dem Comes Out Against Cass Sunstein

By | 09.09.09 | 1:58 pm

Support from libertarians and the Wall Street Journal editorial board hasn’t saved Cass Sunstein from the wrath of Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.), a conservative Blue Dog from a district that gave Barack Obama only 35 percent of the vote in 2008. The Tulsa World’s Jim Myers reports on a More…

‘Keeping the Blue Dogs Honest’

By | 08.20.09 | 10:02 am

Hastings Wyman has a good piece up at the Southern Political Report, talking to Oklahoma strategists about the NRCC’s eyebrow-raising inclusion of Rep. Dan Boren (D-Okla.) on their target list. The five Republicans who’ve thrown their hats into the ring present basically no threat to Boren; one is a More…