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By John McArdle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
The possibility of a Saturday vote on the health care bill in the House isn’t especially enticing to anyone who has to shuffle their weekend plans. But it presents a particular inconvenience for those Members already in the thick of their 2010 campaign schedules.
By Steven T. Dennis and Tory Newmyer
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
House Democrats continued to whip their sweeping health care bill Wednesday before a planned Saturday vote, holding around-the-clock meetings to try to finalize abortion language and make other tweaks to the bill.
By Bennett Roth
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Lately, Donna Crane hasn’t been making it home early. The policy director of NARAL Pro-Choice America has been lobbying nonstop to ensure that the House does not slip anti-abortion language into its health care legislation, which the chamber is expected to vote on this weekend.
By Paul Singer
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
The House ethics committee is likely to exonerate five members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were accused of taking an improper trip to the Caribbean, according to sources familiar with the case.
By David M. Drucker and Tory Newmyer
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
House and Senate Democratic moderates insisted Wednesday that Republican victories in Tuesday’s off-year election would not influence their votes on health care reform.
By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
While HOH is sure plenty of Capitol Hill spokesmen have wanted to punch loudmouth reporters every once in a while, we wouldn’t recommend any of them actually slug somebody in real life.
By Jessica Brady and Emily Pierce
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
For nearly a month, Senate Democrats and Republicans have engaged in a high-stakes game of chicken over unemployment benefits in an effort to show that they are not going to be pushovers in Senate floor action.
By Emily Yehle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop unwittingly set off a scare in the Capitol on Wednesday when someone hand-delivered his letter on health care reform to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) office.
By Jackie Kucinich and Emily Yehle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Rep. Todd Platts (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that his application to become the next comptroller general has the support of several of his colleagues — including the Democrat tasked with orchestrating the search process.
By Matthew Murray
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who chairs a House subcommittee tasked with overseeing elections, recently expressed “serious concerns” with the sale of an electronic voting machine company to another manufacturer.
By Emily Yehle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
The House Administration Committee passed a resolution Wednesday to set guidelines for reimbursement vouchers, paving the way for new standards that will be implemented in January.
By Morton M. Kondracke
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Late in the game, Republicans are proposing alternatives to Democratic health care reform, but they’re certainly not being bold.
By Stuart Rothenberg
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
The defeat of Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd district isn’t likely to change conservatives’ plans to turn their attention quickly to Florida’s GOP Senate primary.
By Mark Greenbaum
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Returning to our look at a leadership fight between Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), where would President Barack Obama fit in?
Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.
By Josh Kurtz
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Upstate New York has been a killing field for the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2009.
By Greg Giroux
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Emboldened by the results of Tuesday’s gubernatorial race in Virginia, Republican officials are expressing renewed confidence about unseating one or more Democratic House incumbents in the Commonwealth in the 2010 midterm elections.
By Shira Toeplitz
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Club for Growth spokesman Rich Dunn has left the anti-tax conservative group to take a gig as the deputy political director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
By Emily Cadei and Kathleen Silvassy
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (R) declared her intentions to run for Senate in California on Wednesday, after exploring a 2010 campaign against Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) for months.
By John McArdle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Despite an impressive first fundraising report and support from state and national Republicans, state Sen. Alan Nunnelee (R) may not be able avoid a primary next year in his effort to knock off freshman Rep. Travis Childers (D) in the conservative northern 1st district.
By Shira Toeplitz
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
State Sen. Susan Wagle (R) officially bowed out of a Congressional bid this week.
By John McArdle
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
A slew of new polling numbers released this week has the two Democratic Senate candidates at odds over who has momentum just six months from the primary.
By Greg Giroux
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Ben Loyola (R), a businessman who is challenging freshman Rep. Glenn Nye (D), made the rounds in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to publicize his campaign in the 2nd district in and around Virginia Beach.
By Emily Cadei
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Michigan’s 19th district state Senate race received some extra attention on election night from national Republicans, who hope a big win by state Rep. Mike Nofs (R) is a harbinger for the area’s 2010 House race. Nofs defeated state Rep. Marty Griffin (D) by double digits to win the open seat previously held by Rep. Mark Schauer (D). Republicans say their win in the Democratic-leaning state district, which encompasses the key counties of Calhoun and Jackson, shows that Schauer is in trouble in his first re-election bid.
By Tricia Miller
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
It’s hard to imagine a time when washing hands between patients wasn’t standard practice for doctors, but in the 1840s, that was the case.
By Casey Hynes
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Lily Dorman-Colby’s story is the kind you should listen to with tissues handy. A foster child since age 12, Dorman-Colby was shuffled through five homes in two years and was subjected to the kind of instability and abuse that can permanently damage a child.
By Alison McSherry
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Having grown up in Venezuela with parents who don’t drink, the wine director at Alain Ducasse’s downtown restaurant, Adour, is obsessed with vino. Not only does Narvaez spend his career tasting it, but he also married a wine distributor and says his house is crowded with bottles and cases of his favorite vintages.
By Alison McSherry
| Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
Equinox (818 Connecticut Ave. NW) is getting creative with leftover Halloween candy. The downtown hot spot is repurposing the treats and turning them into sinfully sweet cocktails.
Nov. 5, 2009, Midnight
In November 1994, Republicans formally elected a new leadership team after regaining control of the House for the first time in 40 years. But Republicans at the time said the writing was on the wall one year earlier, when GOP candidates won gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
