The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is making some major ad buys, shoring up Democrats facing tight races in a number of states including Colorado, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut and Washington. One place you probably won’t see the group spending money, however, is Wisconsin: More…
Not since Lt. Governor Bill Halter‘s (D-Ark.) primary race and battle for the public option in the health care debate has MoveOn.org looked this excited. After a relatively quiet election season — the group has made less than $400,000 in independent expenditures attacking a hodgepodge of Republicans like Rep. More…
President Obama kicked off efforts to rally the Democratic base and, especially, young people last night with a speech at the University of Wisconsin. Following musical performances by Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, Ben Harper, and The National — as well as words from local pols like Sen. Russ Feingold More…
The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack ads targeting “the liberal, out-of-touch records of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Gov. Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold, Michael Bennet, and Harry More…
Some Republicans, including Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to discuss the possibility of altering the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the one that grants citizenship to children born to More…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he still would like to see hearings on abuses of the 14th Amendment by illegal immigrants who come to the U.S. to have children. Although he has not come out in support of changing the amendment to remove automatic citizenship More…
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) today joined the growing list of lawmakers who said they want Congressional hearings on the 14th Amendment, specifically its provisions for providing citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. — including children of illegal immigrants.
But Gutierrez, an outspoken supporter of immigrants’ rights, has More…
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate passed a sweeping financial regulatory reform bill, overhauling the regulation of everything from the biggest banks to consumer financial products to exotic instruments like credit-default swaps to the derivatives used by farmers. The bill passed 60 to 39.
[Congress1] Earlier on Thursday, Republicans Olympia More…
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) said he would consider the financial regulatory reform bill over the July 4 Senate recess. He’s back, and he says he is a yes:
I’ve spent the past week reviewing the Wall Street reform bill. I appreciate the efforts to improve the bill, especially the
I’ve been focusing intently on the jobs situation and unemployment extension bill this week, but here’s a roundup of the need-to-know news on the Wall Street or financial regulatory reform bill. The House passed the conference committee version with bipartisan support, and now it only needs Senate approval to More…
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