It’s not too often that North Carolina U.S. Reps. Brad Miller (D) and Virginia Foxx (R) end up voting together on controversial legislation. The same can be said of Democrat Mel Watt and Republican Walter Jones. But Tuesday’s vote to renew parts of the PATRIOT Act — in a More…
Appearing today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) outlined tension between House Democratic leadership and the party’s conservative Blue Dog Caucus, saying, “There has really been no communication whatsoever. We still do not have any connection between the Blue Dogs and leadership,” according to Politico.
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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) leads the entire North Carolina congressional delegation with $1,204,438 in cash-on-hand (COH) at the end of the 2010 fundraising cycle, through December 31, 2010. No other N.C. members were in the top 100 in COH among the entire U.S. Congress.
Already a prime target for More…
Democratic U.S. Reps. Heath Shuler and Mike McIntyre of North Carolina have joined 171 other members of Congress as co-sponsors of H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Federal law prohibits government funding of abortions except in some cases including incest and rape, but H.R. 3 seeks More…
Democratic Reps. Heath Shuler (N.C.) and Jim Cooper (Tenn.) will introduce a bill this week that would require each state to create a bipartisan redistricting commission. The commissions would consist of five member panels. “The majority and minority leaders in each state would appoint two members apiece, and those four More…
Here’s a textbook case for the DISCLOSE Act that’s up tomorrow for a vote. It centers on Americans for Job Security, a pro-business issue advocacy group, that has reported zero dollars in donations supporting ads that cost millions to create and air.
As House Democratic leaders raced to round up votes before the Memorial Day recess for a pivotal economic aid bill, trimming it by more than $70 billion to avoid a revolt by members of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition, the party made another concession on its agenda to far More…
With unemployment in double digits and no relief in sight, swift passage of the Democrats’ “jobs agenda” — set to be unveiled today in the Senate — might seem like a sure thing.
Well, not quite.
Not only are Senate Republicans balking at early proposals to cover the More…
Jonathan Martin follows up on Ralph Z. Hallow’s story about Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) being willing to campaign for Democrats by … asking a bunch of Democrats if they’d want to campaign alongside Palin. “She’s deeply unpopular within their own party,” Martin says, understating the matter, “but in More…
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