Updated 6:55 p.m. | A controversy is stirring up in Texas about leadership, conservatism and state loyalty.
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Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is drawing more scrutiny as his poll numbers rise, and so is the increasingly lucrative super PAC backing the former Pennsylvania Senator.
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh wondered today whether the hosts of tonight’s GOP presidential nomination debate will ask Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) about repeatedly being double reimbursed for flights.
The campaign of Rep. Mark Critz (D) declared in a Tuesday press release that Rep. Jason Altmire (D) does not qualify to appear on the ballot in the Pennsylvania Member-vs.-Member race in which the two men are competing.
Although the newly released Minnesota Congressional reapportionment maphas drawn Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) into Rep. Betty McCollum’s (D) 4th district, a Twin Cities Member-vs.-Member race is not in the cards.
CLEVELAND — As President Barack Obama ramps up his re-election campaign, Cleveland is slowly seeing some signs of economic recovery. But as the third-poorest city in the country, America’s Comeback City has a long way to rebound from the years-long recession — and so do its voters, the majority of whom are black.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today that Travis Lowe will serve as the committee’s independent expenditure director. Lowe currently serves as the DCCC’s campaign director. Current DCCC Research Director Kevin McKeon was tapped as the IE’s research director.
In a private meeting of House conservatives last week, a lobbyist describing himself as Capitol Hill's point man for the Santorum campaign made a pitch for the White House candidate. The political moment made observers uncomfortable and revealed just how worried Rick Santorum is about his spotty reputation on Capitol Hill and K Street.
New Mexico's 1st district, a battleground for more than a decade, is in danger of sliding off the radar for national Republicans in 2012.
Joseph Kennedy III, who officially launched his bid last week for Massachusetts' open 4th district seat, has hired the same Democratic strategy firm that is leading Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign.
CLEVELAND — In his political lifespan, Rep. Dennis Kucinich traveled the globe to meet world leaders, crisscrossed the country to run for president and even flirted with running for re-election in Washington state. But a much less glamorous locale will determine the Ohio Democrat’s fate next month: Toledo.
Ex-state Sen. Robert O’Leary won’t run against Democratic Rep. Bill Keating in the 10th district primary in Massachusetts, giving the freshman and political survivor a clearer shot to another term.
As some Arizona Republicans have been writing him off, Sheriff Paul Babeu faced the media wildfire this evening that has consumed his House campaign for the state’s 4th district.
If I told you that the Oakland A’s or the Pittsburgh Pirates would be in the Major League Baseball playoffs this year instead of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers or Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, you’d probably have me institutionalized.
Vulnerable Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D) campaign is on the air with two radio ads pushing back against spots attacking her.
The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $4.8 million in January and had $17.6 million in cash on hand at the end of last month. That means the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee outraised the NRCC by more than $1 million in the first month of the year.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R) led presumptive Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren by 9 points in a new poll of registered voters. Forty-nine percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Brown, while 40 percent said they would vote for Warren. Nine percent were undecided.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a new Congressional map into law that solidifies the huge GOP majority in the Sunshine State’s federal delegation. Democrats are challenging the lines in court, saying they violate a 2010 state constitutional amendment that requires lines to be drawn without “the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent.”
The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.
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