As The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin reported last week, GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth might be down in the polls, and he might have just a fifth of the campaign funds accumulated by his primary opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). But following enactment of Arizona’s draconian new immigration More…
Top New York state lawmakers now appear to be on the path toward a showdown on redistricting reform with whoever is governor next year.
Various reform advocates — including New York Uprising, a coalition of groups led by former New York City Mayor Ed Koch (D) — have pressed the More…
House Appropriations Chairman David Obey made it official at a press conference this afternoon: He will not run for re-election in November, choosing to retire after more than 40 years representing his Wisconsin district.
“I’m ready to turn the page,” he said. “Frankly, I am bone tired.”
As we noted More…
David Krikorian, the Reagan conservative-turned-Democrat who was vying for the chance to run against Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) in November, might be conceding defeat after yesterday’s Democratic primary, but he’s not doing it very gracefully.
Instead, the Cincinnati businessman is claiming that the victor, Indian-American Surya Yalamanchili, won only after More…
The congressional race in Ohio’s second district is shaping up to be an odd one. And it’s not just because one Democratic candidate is a self-described “Reagan conservative” and another starred recently on “The Apprentice.”
With the Democratic primary just days away, state and local party leaders are ripping into More…
So hinted Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who told a crowd gathered this week for an annual meeting of the American Hospital Association that the House might soon introduce such a bill, CQ HealthBeat reports.
The political advantage of that move is clear: The American Medical Association has More…
Republicans hoping that voter unrest is targeted largely at the majority Democrats won’t like what they see in the latest Washington Post-ABC poll. That survey found that fewer than a third of voters are inclined to vote for their current representative, regardless of the lawmakers’ party affiliation. The Post More…
By any objective telling, the Democrats have been nothing if not kind to business since Barack Obama’s election. They’ve bailed out the banks with hundreds of billions of dollars. They’ve watered down climate bills with huge subsidies to the coal, oil and electric industries (i.e., the More…
Mixed messages coming today from Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House minority leader who is spinning last week’s GOP Senate win in Massachusetts as a repudiation of the Democratic majority, while at the same time conceding that voters don’t really trust anyone in Congress at the moment.
“I do think More…
In the wake of Scott Brown’s astonishing Senate win in Massachusetts Tuesday, it seems that everyone has a theory about what message the voters in the Bay State have sent. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) this week declared that the message is clear: Congress, he said, needs More…
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