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By Jennifer Yachnin and Steven T. Dennis
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Barring a last-minute settlement agreement over allegations that Rep. Charlie Rangel violated House rules, a special ethics panel will meet Thursday to set the stage for a rare ethics trial.
By Emily Pierce and Anna Palmer
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
After a year and a half of demanding that Senate Democrats enact their long-awaited priorities, liberal groups may finally be ready to give it a rest.
By John Stanton, Kathleen Hunter and Jennifer Bendery
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
A federal judge’s decision Wednesday to cut the heart out of Arizona’s contentious immigration law is forcing lawmakers to address the politically thorny issue once again, just as they were hoping to slip out of town and avoid controversy over the August recess.
By Elizabeth Brotherton and Alison McSherry
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Rep. John Sullivan turned a few heads when he wandered onto the House floor late Tuesday afternoon dressed decidedly down in a golf shirt, visor and gym shorts — and it wasn’t even Friday!
By David M. Drucker
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Senate Republicans escalated their attacks Wednesday against the $1.2 trillion health care reform law and insisted Democrats will pay a political price for it in November, with the majority responding that the GOP was gravely miscalculating.
By Matthew Murray
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
The business community has spent mightily trying to defeat the Democratic-backed DISCLOSE Act, which suffered a bruising loss in the Senate earlier this week. Lobbying disclosure reports show that the campaign finance bill set off a flurry of lobbying activity in recent months.
By Daniel Newhauser
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
As the dust settles on a top-level firing at the Capitol Visitor Center, both the recently sacked CEO for visitor services and those accusing her of mismanagement are speaking out about Terrie Rouse’s tenure and the future of the multimillion-dollar complex.
By Kathleen Hunter
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
House Democratic leaders have ramped up their efforts to give their rank-and-file Members plenty of messaging fodder to take home during the August recess.
By Morton M. Kondracke
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
There’s not a prayer that comprehensive immigration reform will pass Congress this year, but there’s a slim one that a smaller “down payment” measure might. And it should.
By Stuart Rothenberg
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
I’ve heard dozens of times over the past few months that large Democratic losses in the House were inevitable this year because of sweeping Democratic victories in 2006 and 2008. The reality is quite different.
By Jane Oates
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
These are admittedly challenging times. The depth and duration of the recession have affected a great many people who have not been unemployed in decades and believed that it would never happen to them. For others, particularly African-American, Latino and Native American workers, this recession has magnified the long-term difficulty of getting full-time, family-sustaining employment.
July 29, 2010, Midnight
The latest cartoon from R.J. Matson.
By Steve Peoples
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
It may not matter that Rob Simmons has become a candidate again in the race to become Connecticut’s next Senator. The former Congressman, once the Republican frontrunner, has less than two weeks to overcome weak polling numbers, a huge financial disadvantage and a virtually nonexistent ground game.
By Tricia Miller
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Seven-term Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick faces another tough primary — and even the possibility of defeat — when Democratic voters in Michigan head to the polls on Tuesday. But the dynamics of this race are different from her narrow victory in August 2008.
By John McArdle
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Tennessee’s 8th district GOP primary is shaping up to be more than just an unusually expensive intraparty fight. It’s become a marquee race that carries high risk and the potential of a big reward for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
By John McArdle and Alex Knott
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), a heart surgeon with more than two decades of experience in medicine, is hitting the road over the August recess to stump for GOP House candidates and talk to voters about health care issues.
By Steve Peoples
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte continues to lead in the race for the Republican nomination to succeed retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R).
By Katherine Rizzo
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Confronted by an opposition ad that tries to turn the “mom in tennis shoes” slogan against her, Sen. Patty Murray (D) is defending herself as only an incumbent can: with an ad that shows Boeing workers thanking her for saving their jobs.
By Katherine Rizzo
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
An elementary teacher excited to walk through the schoolhouse door is the featured face in the latest campaign commercial for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D).
By Emily Heil
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
These are things that strike fear in the hearts of Members of Congress hitting the campaign trail this August recess: angry voters, bad poll numbers, damaging political ads by opponents. But perhaps most of all, they fear the unflattering video clip.
By Rachael Bade
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Postmodern artists choose the abstract over realism in “Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figure Painting,” a new exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
By Sam Jewler
| July 29, 2010, Midnight
Many a documentary feeds off political upheaval, but it is rare that such a film leaves societal change in its wake. At the rate it’s going, Josh Fox’s “Gasland” — already a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner and HBO featured documentary, even though it has yet to be released in theaters — may be the next to do so.
July 29, 2010, Midnight
On Dec. 14, 1935, John W. Thomas feeds newly minted Social Security checks into a machine that can sign 7,000 checks an hour. The first checks would go out on
Jan. 1. This year is the 75th anniversary of the passing of the Social Security Act, a milestone that was noted Wednesday by House leadership in an event on the East Front of the Capitol.
