In the coda to yet another Washington ethics scandal, Paul Magliocchetti, founder of the once influential defense lobbying firm PMA Group, was indicted yesterday in federal court for making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions.
PMA had ties to several senior members of the
Quick primary update: Michigan, Kansas, and Missouri all go to the polls today to select a slew of candidates. All three are states where Republicans hope to either hold steady or make big gains.
Michigan has the most races of interest, including a governor’s seat that Republicans hope to recapture More…
Everyone is walking a thin line on immigration, but Republican politicians are in an especially tough position. Two-thirds of Republicans think the government should focus most of its efforts on securing the borders, according to a recent Gallup poll, and most proposals submitted on the new More…
To many Americans, the Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer. For Senate election observers, it marks the onset of a season that will determine the fate of senators at risk of losing their jobs, and of outsiders looking to beat back party favorites. The summer Senate primaries kick More…
At a Saturday barbecue for the Leavenworth County, Kans., Republican Party, former Bush administration lawyer and current secretary of state candidate Kris Kobach made the case for stricter voter ID laws by questioning the citizenship of President Obama.
A professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kobach
President Obama disappointed a lot of health care advocates earlier this year when, contrary to campaign vows, he declined to include in his budget the elimination of a decades-old ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs, which have been shown to prevent blood-borne illnesses like HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis More…
There’s something jarring about this new ad from Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kans.), who’s running for the U.S. Senate.
On Tuesday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) got a meeting that he had been asking for since March — a briefing with the Department of Justice about plans to resettle 17 Uighurs, Chinese Muslims who have been detained at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Ever since the Obama More…
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