Following the horrific explosion at a West Virginia coal mine Monday, a strange thing has happened on Capitol Hill: Everyone seems to be treating the disaster as an issue peculiar to West Virginia.
Indeed, while we’ve seen plenty of statements and public interviews from West Virginia’s congressional delegation in recent More…
Ben Tribbett hears that the NRCC is polling Terry Kilgore, twin brother of former Virginia Attorney General and failed 2005 gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore against Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), and finding Kilgore up by 6 points.
Kilgore would be a great recruit. His brother won the 9th District More…
As we’ve pointed out, passage of the House climate change proposal last month wouldn’t have happened without the liberal sponsors first bowing to the demands of some of their more conservative Democratic colleagues, who were protecting the same polluting industries the bill aims to rein in.
Among the most More…
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It was no mystery that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) was intent on making environment-friendly changes when he swept the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee from beneath auto-friendly Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) in November. And this week, that house-cleaning began in earnest.
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