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Massa to Resign After All

By | 03.08.10 | 5:21 pm

Tory Newmeyer confirms that Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) will resign from Congress this afternoon, ending any drama over whether he would stick around to help block health care reform legislation, and freeing him up to rant about his situation.

Massa Claimed He Was ‘Forced Out’ of Congress in 2003

By | 03.08.10 | 4:13 pm

Today, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) is arguing that Democrats are conspiring to force him out of Congress.

This isn’t the first time More…

Eric Massa to Rip Democrats on Glenn Beck’s Fox News Show

By | 03.08.10 | 1:39 pm

Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) scorching attack on Democrats — while a lot of attention is going to a silly story about Rahm Emanuel, he accuses his party of trying to “shove the [health care] bill down our throats” — will be amplified tomorrow with a full-hour interview on Glenn More…

Massa Attack

By | 03.08.10 | 9:41 am

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), the disgraced resigning congressman, is going down swinging and taking the news cycle with him. His weekly radio show — and, likely, any media he does today — is a festival of criticism of the White House, specifically of Rahm Emanuel.

When I voted against

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Rep. Eric Massa Resigns

By | 03.05.10 | 4:11 pm

The rapid implosion of Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) career will end with his resignation from Congress on Monday, less than a week after he announced that he had terminal cancer — and the Ethics Committee announced that he was under investigation.

“I am a deeply flawed and imperfect person,” More…

Democrats Blame Bush for TSA System Failure

By | 12.30.09 | 1:29 pm

Reid Wilson has Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) — respectively the chairman of the DCCC and one of the punchiest House freshmen — knocking the Bush administration and the GOP for the near-miss Christmas terror attack. Massa’s attack on former Vice President Dick Cheney More…

It’s Ugly Out There

By | 08.31.09 | 9:45 am

Constituents of Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), a Democrat who won a Republican-leaning district in 2008, wrote in to the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper to dish on the ugly details of a recent town hall.

Massa, trying to explain the legislation and his views, was roundly booed, even when he

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Taking On Congressional Pay

By | 06.25.09 | 2:45 pm

Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) is taking up a cause that’s sure to make him unpopular among colleagues: He’s trying to force a vote on legislation to end the automatic pay raises enjoyed by congressional lawmakers since 1989.

The Senate earlier this year passed a bill to do just that, but More…