December 31, 2009

At least two Democrats will ring in the new year tonight free from the burdens of political campaigns. Former Selma mayor James Perkins dropped out of the race today for Alabama's 7th Congressional District and Kansas state Sen. Laura Kelly...

December 30, 2009

Republican Scott Brown is using the words and images of Democrat John F. Kennedy in a new commercial in the race to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat of his brother, Edward Kennedy. In the 30-second spot uses vintage, black-and-white images...

Lawmakers continued to trade barbs today over the Christmas Day attempt to blow up an airliner, with one Republican calling the White House approach to terrorism "naïve" and "reckless" and Democrats charging that the GOP is playing politics with the...

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, the centrist Democrat who provided the critical 60th vote on health-care legislation, will start running ads in his home state tonight to defend the vote, The Lincoln Journal Star reports. The 30-second ad, which will air...

December 29, 2009

Rep. George Radanovich, R-Calif., announced today that he will not seek re-election next year, bringing to 13 the number of House Republicans who are retiring or seeking other office. Radanovich, 54, said he was stepping down to spend more time...

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a candidate in the state's 2010 gubernatorial election, announced today he will launch a review of the constitutionality of the health care legislation pending in Congress. For months critics have questioned the legality of a...

The Democratic Party's fundraising arms started December with more cash in the bank than their rival GOP committees, reports recently filed with the Federal Election Commission show. The committee charged with electing Democrats to the U.S. House not only outraised...

Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., a 19-term lawmaker who is one of Congress' leading health care experts, is the subject of a House ethics panel review, the committee has revealed. The ethics committee did not disclose the nature of the review...

December 24, 2009

When he cast his vote in favor of the health care bill, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said: "This is for my friend, Ted Kennedy. Aye." Later, when Senate leaders gathered outside the chamber to speak to the media after the...

December 22, 2009

It's official: The Senate will be holding votes the day before Christmas. We're just waiting for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to tell us whether the roll calls will take place before or...

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