U.S. politics today features a speaker of the House with an orange tan and the kind of constant unoriginal and petty backbiting and betrayals that are the stock in trade of reality TV. Why pretend otherwise? Where some might see tragedy, the media company behind “Jersey Shore” sees opportunity. More…
Oil and gas money is greasing the wheels of U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton’s reelection campaign, which more than doubled its fundraising bounty for the quarter that just ended, public records show.
The race between longtime incumbent U.S. Reps. Leonard Boswell and Tom Latham in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District is among five “that could break the bank,” Politico says.
House Speaker John Boehner told a crowd of thousands at the sixth annual Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C., that giving birth to 12 boys and girls probably was not convenient for his mother. But she did it, one at a time.
President Obama sent new free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea and Panama to Congress on Monday, a move many Florida Republicans are praising despite reports of potential American job losses and persistent anti-labor violence in Colombia.
The Miami Herald reports today that “both Miami Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on More…
Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Detroit) is among a group of lawmakers demanding Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) provide a briefing on the House’s defense of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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Tuesday afternoon, in Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home state, anti-abortion-rights protesters are organizing a rally to encourage the Ohio Senate to pass controversial legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
It must be opposite day. Republicans, many of whom have pledged to not even consider any plan that raises taxes, are clamoring to raise the payroll tax. Democrats, many of whom have said the country can’t be serious about cutting the deficit if taxes can’t be raised, are fighting More…
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