Dec 15, 2011 – This year, Virginians handed Republicans a super-majority in the House of Delegates, as well as a state Senate majority.  … Republican George Allen leads Democrat Tim Kaine 42% to 39% with 19% undecided.…

Dec 15, 2011 – willingness to say anything, regardless of how divorced it is from reality, to advance his short-run political agenda (sort of a Democrat … This interpretation might make partial sense because the House Republicans have made a few semi-serious efforts to shrink government … This interpretation might make some sense because the GOP did control the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, but does Schumer understand…

Dec 14, 2011 – … “You all probably know our featured guest and beloved friend Newt Gingrich this morning as the former speaker of the House. … In 1988 he helped bring down the Democrat Speaker of the House Jim Wright over ethics violations, some of you may remember that. … 40 years of Democrat rule.…

Dec 14, 2011 – divided and broadcasting a confusing message -- which is what Obama craves -- it will help him win another four years in the White House … Like it or not, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is the overwhelming favorite among Republican voters, and among many Democrat voters…

Dec 13, 2011 – Senate Democrats raised the issue on a conference call with White House officials, dismayed at the potential reversal of what one Democrat…

Dec 13, 2011 – It has enlisted for this purpose Senator Dick Durbin, the Senate's Number 2 Democrat. Sen. … Evidently, he is trying to euchre members of the House of Representatives into earmarking funds for the federal government to purchase…

Dec 13, 2011 – Last February, Democrat Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, gave the eulogy. … of whom ran against earmarks) and 75 from House Democrats. … Among McCaskill's findings was a $2.5 million line item inserted into the House bill by Republican Rep. Robert T.…

Dec 12, 2011 – WASHINGTON (BP) -- Conservative lawmakers in the House of Representatives are making a push to ban abortions based on the gender or … At the House hearing, opponents claimed that Franks' bill discriminates against women. … But passage in just the House will likely be the best prospect for his bill.…

Dec 12, 2011 – The White House is not involved, and nor should it be." … During a House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing in 2004 Gregory Meeks (D-NY) erupted with, "I'm p***ed off at OFHEO, because … In a 2010 CNBC interview, Frank, then the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee with direct oversight responsibility for…

Dec 12, 2011 – Earlier this month, South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn, a top Democrat, suggested “we ought to look at the overseas contingency account” … Just last week, the House passed the POWER Act, which would expand the misguided Jones Act. … Earlier this year, the House used the suspension procedure to vote on an extension of business subsidies.…

Dec 10, 2011 – Then there was Paul Ryan and Alice Rivlin, the House Republican and the Democrat who once directed the Congressional Budget Office. … Then, there was the Ryan House Republican budget proposal. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CN) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) have a proposal.…

Dec 8, 2011 – It was a very uncomfortable Thursday for Attorney General Eric Holder on Capitol Hill as he testified before the House Judiciary … James Sensenbrenner talking about impeachment Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers called for … “No house has been cleaned,” Issa said.…

Dec 8, 2011 – William Galston, a top domestic aide in the Clinton White House, has argued that the Obama campaign should concentrate on states like … Only one Democrat in the last century has won the presidency without carrying Ohio, Galston points out. … And in the 2010 House elections, non-college whites went Republican by 63 percent to 33 percent.…

Dec 7, 2011 – Rothman, a New Jersey Democrat who sits on the powerful panel that writes the foreign aid bill, says flatly, "There has been great … Royce, a California Republican who is chairman of the terrorism subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and has a strong…

Dec 7, 2011 – convince them that bullying is wrong.But in Boston, Mark was charged with sexual assault.Just to get this straight: Massachusetts Democrat … All this chatter from the left about the problem of bullying -- Lady Gaga is visiting the White House this week to tell her subordinate…

Dec 7, 2011 – Hundreds of millions of voters won’t decide who controls the White House; 538 Electors will. … This foolish fantasy ignores an obvious but inconvenient truth: every one of the members of the House (yes, 435 of 435) who’ll make … Despite a likely shutout in the Electoral College (and certain irrelevancy if the choice went to the House), a minor party candidacy…

Dec 26, 2011 – Quoting Bluto from Animal House sans burp: “Why the hell not.”    … The question that I have for the political geniuses at the White House is: “After getting elected primarily on the strength of the … The results are showing in our two parallel economies: One for the Democrat Party and one for the rest of us.…

Dec 24, 2011 – That is in direct opposition to the Democrat/Obama/Union/BigGovernment agenda. … Much of Congress disarray can be blamed not on Congress but on the White House.…

Dec 23, 2011 – Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon. How did the White House react? … No, Ryan's reforms didn't quite resonate in the White House. … The Ryan "Path to Prosperity" budget passed the House this past spring. In effect, it became Republican policy.…

Dec 22, 2011 – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor - Mr. … House and Senate – House Republicans will lose seats, but retain their majority. … He will lose Iowa to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.…

Dec 22, 2011 – The move was blasted by Congressman John Sullivan, Vice Chairman of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee as the “EPA gone rogue. … But that argument ran into a buzz saw of opposition called common sense, aka, the House Energy and Power Subcommittee. … OWS groups have been “occupying” both Obama’s Iowa campaign headquarters and the headquarters of the Democrat National Committee to…

Dec 21, 2011 – Philadelphia looked askance at a flawed field of primary candidates and, after six bitterly divided ballots, turned instead to a former Democrat … Of these last-minute nominees only Harding won the White House (with a record-setting popular vote margin, in fact) but this year increasing…

Dec 20, 2011 – Recently, 115 Democratic House members signed a letter urging Mr. Holder to use his office to oppose new voter ID laws. … Marcia Fudge, Ohio Democrat, unabashedly played the race card, charging that “these efforts have an all-too familiar stench of the…

Dec 20, 2011 – Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA) alerted members of the House Oversight Committee that four members of the House received VIP loans from sub-prime … You’re a Democrat. … Look for the House Oversight Committee to press the case under a Republican majority as the GOP makes a pitch for taking over the House…

Dec 19, 2011 – And frankly, House Republicans agree.”  … The White House and Senate leadership keep grumbling that there's "no reason" for the House to block the temporary plan before Christmas … A School House Rock-style refresher: The House passes a bill.  The Senate passes its own varaint. …