Nov 4, 2014 – The milder stuff includes a letter to black voters from the Democratic National Committee appealing for racial solidarity. … Anthony Brown is in a close race with Republican Larry Hogan, the state Democratic Party sent out a flyer.…

Nov 3, 2014 – The ad is sponsored by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. … They are a political action committee dedicated to electing conservative women to public office. … Regardless, the National Republican Congressional Committee decided to spend $100,000 in television ads in the final week of the election…

Oct 31, 2014 – was 100 percent behind a border fence: “I support a strong border and have for many years as chair of the Homeland Security Committee … Now, the Republican National Committee is calling her bluff.…

Oct 31, 2014 – Clinton, she was basically robbed of the nomination in 2008 by a crafty, left-leaning Democratic National Committee. … They punished Clinton for the actions of a Republican Florida legislature, which chose to move up to an earlier date that state's presidential … primary, in violation of national party rules.…

Oct 30, 2014 – As a result, both sides have prominent national figures heading down to stump for them. … An ad sponsored by the National Republican Senatorial Committee features a clip of Hagan campaigning against Dole: “Voting 92 percent … If immigration becomes an issue in the waning days of the 2014 cycle, it will surely play into Republican hands, as it’s a topic that…

Oct 30, 2014 – many others, assert it's because of an answer Bush gave in 2012 to a hypothetical question posed by a member of the House Budget Committee … National Convention: "Read my lips: no new taxes." … The national debt has passed $17 trillion, and continues to climb.…

Oct 29, 2014 – With much of the national media attention (such as it exists) focused on this year's Senate races, the battle for the House of Representatives … With President Barack Obama’s unpopularity hindering their candidates and Republican cash flooding into races across the country, Democrats … Over the last several days, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has directed resources to maintain seats in Hawaii and…

Oct 29, 2014 – A Republican landslide is forming. How bad will the coming election results be for Obama and Democrats? … Polls show generic Republican Congressional candidates leading by more than four years ago.  … Even Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman won’t answer questions about the President.…

Nov 16, 2014 – How should the new Republican-led Congress deal with the lame duck president? … mostly Chairman Grassley should just put a "Gone to Lunch, Back in 2017 sign" on the doors of the hearing room of the Judiciary Committee … The fence is the visible expression of the invisible resolve to control the border for national security purposes and its construction…

Nov 16, 2014 – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) are congressional bureaucracies that wield tremendous … Steve Entin is superb, but he would be an inspired pick for the Joint Committee on Taxation, not the CBO. … This video explains the Joint Committee on Taxation’s revenue-estimating methodology.…

Nov 16, 2014 – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) are congressional bureaucracies that wield tremendous … Steve Entin is superb, but he would be an inspired pick for the Joint Committee on Taxation, not the CBO. … This video explains the Joint Committee on Taxation’s revenue-estimating methodology.…

Nov 13, 2014 – Senate: Senate Republican Leader:  Mitch McConnell (R-KY)  Senate Republican Whip:  John Cornyn (R-TX)  Senate Republican Conference … Chairman: John Thune (R-SD)  Senate Republican Policy Chairman: John Barrasso (R-WY)  Senate Republican Vice Conference Chairman … : Roy Blunt (R-MO) National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman: Roger Wicker (R-MS) Editor's Note: An earlier version of this…

Nov 13, 2014 – So did the Republican wave in the mid-term elections make reform more likely? … Does the rise of a newly elected Republican Senate change that calculus? … The head of the National Socialist Workers Party gets a double-dose – hereand here – of bad news about Obamacare.…

Nov 13, 2014 – Lynch is sure to be confirmed by either the present Democratic-controlled Senate this fall or by the newly constituted Republican-controlled … Republican senators have a duty to ask her probing questions. … Hence, I suggest to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that they permit Lynch to distinguish herself from Holder by inducing…

Nov 12, 2014 – Republican Sen. … about the Republican grip on the House should now be gone. … or Democratic Party, compared with the national average.…

Nov 12, 2014 – The Crossroads Farmer's Market was the recipient of a $5,000 grant from the National Watermelon Association, and used that money to … And last year, Stabenow, who is chairwoman of the Senate's Agriculture Committee, proposed including it in the so-called farm bill. … On the other side of Capitol Hill, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Republican Frank Lucas, from Oklahoma, was hearing…

Nov 12, 2014 – Dirty politics, lies and cover-ups are the liberal, socialist Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) stock in trade, but one hopes … for higher standards from the Republican National Committee (RNC). … On Saturday, November 8, Arizona’s RNC National Committeeman Bruce Ash got on the airwaves with quasi-conservative radio talk-show…

Nov 12, 2014 – Hopefully, though, Republican apparatuses like the Republican National Committee as well as individual campaigns have been readying … If 2012 proved anything, it’s that winning midterm elections does not always portend a successful national election, especially if … Well-meaning (and well-paid) Republican flacks might spin our dilemma as evidence of healthy “free market competition,” a depth of…

Nov 12, 2014 – might have more luck this time, since his earlier amendment was approved by the House but not the Senate, which will soon have a Republican … Rand Paul, R-Ky., who is expected to chair a key committee that oversees the District, believes Congress should respect the will of … "We believe that a new Republican Congress will not interfere with something that deals solely with personal liberties."…

Nov 12, 2014 – On Monday, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Rep. … Lamar Smith, R-Texas, requested that the National Science Foundation send him all information about how and why the taxpayer-subsidized … Chris Coons, as well as a "Republican activist in Pennsylvania" whose Twitter account was then shut down after Truthy identified tweets…

Nov 9, 2014 – Living under different laws than the rest of us is so ingrained in our national leadership, that it seems they hardly give it a second … “The present era of incredible rottenness is not Democratic,” wrote Mark Twain, “it is not Republican, it is national.” … What Jindal is referring to are the candidates who made bizarre comments during the election, like Todd Akin the Missouri Republican…

Nov 8, 2014 – Hell, I'm a conservative and even I don't love the Republican Party. … The National Republican Senatorial Committee? Everyone in that organization should be fired and run out of politics. … Thank you, Republican Governors Association.…

Nov 7, 2014 – Beltway types -- not Republican voters. … and others threw themselves on in reaction to what is well described as a "Republican wave." … According to "multiple GOP sources," the National Journal reports, a new Republican proposal circulating in the House sets forth that…

Nov 25, 2014 – John McCain,R-Ariz., who is slated to take over as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in January, said that Hagel ‘was … frustrated with aspects of the administration’s national security policy and decision-making process,’ citing ‘excessive micro-management … "superficial," and a political attempt to convince dissatisfied Americans that the White House is engaging in a post-election, national…

Nov 25, 2014 – So nobody should be surprised that I think the incoming Republican majority should install new leadership at CBO (and the Joint Committee … Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, who…is most famous as the author of the anti-tax pledge that binds virtually every Republican … post is an exaggeration,” Mitchell writes, “but it’s certainly a logical conclusion based on” CBO’s claim that paying down the national…