May 7, 2010 – "Henry Hyde was one of my heroes," House Minority Leader John Boehner told a crowd on a rooftop in Washington, D.C., over a month … after the historic vote on health-care legislation in the House of Representatives. … Also there was Daniel Lipinski, a Democrat from Illinois, who was the only pro-life member of his party left standing firmly against…

May 7, 2010 – Other Democrat leaders have weighed in advocating the VAT, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), Sen. … Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota), White House advisor Ezekiel Emanuel, and John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress. … The NCFRR is an 18-member commission co-chaired by former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Sen…

May 6, 2010 – Obey's decision could trigger other House Democratic departures in the weeks to come. … He is the 17th Democrat who is leaving at the end of this year. … Time magazine's Jay Newton-Small is calling this "a troubling sign for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for whom retention of the House grows…

May 5, 2010 – In a major blow to House Dems (and Speaker Pelosi in particular), House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey has reportedly … The Wisconsin Democrat was facing some pretty ugly poll numbers back home, but his staff had insisted he would be running for another…

May 3, 2010 – It’s worth noting that Brown and Obama lead political parties – Labour and Democrat, respectively – that take pride in characterizing … My hairstylist’s sister-in-law bought what she thought was a wonderful new house in Arizona – only to find that, every morning, her…

May 2, 2010 – One year after his jump from Republican to Democrat, Pennsylvania’s U.S. Sen. … to Democrat. … With Specter backed by the White House and by great big gobs of cash, conventional wisdom has Specter winning the May 18 primary.…

May 20, 2010 – Among other things, she's been a professor at the University of Chicago (where she met Barack Obama), a White House adviser to Bill … Along the way, she has labored for a long line of leftists -- New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman (Senate campaign), Massachusetts … Democrat Michael Dukakis (presidential campaign), Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe (research assistant), federal Appellate Court…

May 20, 2010 – Following the GOP loss of this seat in the Democrat wave year of 2008, Illinois’s 14th Congressional District will be an ideological … This is the seat of former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and includes the townships of Aurora, Batavia, De Kalb, and Ronald Reagan … seat covers the eastern portion of the 14th district, which he has represented since 2007 having previously served in the State House…

May 20, 2010 – Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief that Mark Critz -- Democrat and former staffer of the late Rep. … Blanche Lincoln, must go through a June runoff election against a Democrat who painted her as a buddy to Wall Street banks. … His Tea Party-backed opponent, Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida House, portrayed Crist as insufficiently fiscally conservative…

May 19, 2010 – But when the Democrat won, it seemed like an against-all-odds, come-from-behind Hoosiers victory! … Given a choice between two candidates who both hate ObamaCare, why would lifelong Democrats not vote for the Democrat? … Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner is ludicrously predicting Republicans will pick up 100 seats in the House in November…

May 19, 2010 – Pennsylvanians in the 12th district pulled for Critz because they've pulled for a Democrat in every Congressional election since 1974 … They emphasize that Critz lost by a massive eight points.All the evidence pointing to monster Republican House gains this fall—the … Democratic districts, the ever-rising number of Democratic seats thought to be in jeopardy—was contradicted Tuesday.In the only House…

May 19, 2010 – In fact, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Americans "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." … The only Democrat with the ability to literally change the direction of the world is Michael Moore, who can do so using his gravitational…

May 19, 2010 – Morrison ran to Lincoln’s right as a conservative, Reagan-loving Democrat. … So, what explains the outcome in the special House election to replace recently deceased Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)? … Ron Brownstein, the brainy political expert at National Journal, argues that to regain control of the House, Republicans must prevail…

May 19, 2010 – The February announcement of Democrat Representative Brad Ellsworth’s run for the US Senate rather than re-election to his Southwest … Now, as an open seat, the election battle will be fought between Democrat State Representative Trent Van Haaften and Republican Dr. … Democrat Trent Van Haaften is yet another career politician seeking to pick up where Ellsworth left off in supporting Nancy Pelosi’…

May 18, 2010 – House this November. But Democrats are about to unveil their secret weapon to keep Nancy Pelosi in her catbird seat. … Boyda's bill passed the House by the overwhelming vote of 411 to 3, and the Senate passed a similar bill 75 to 23. Then-Sen. … NAFTA is merely a law passed in 1993 by a simple majority vote of the Democrat-controlled Congress, and no Congress can be bound by…

May 17, 2010 – Congressional Democrats hold overwhelming majorities in the House and the Senate. … Over the last 100 years, Democrats have lost on average 32 House seats and 1.4 Senate seats in the first mid-term election of a Democrat … Absent that election, they have lost an average of 39 House and 3.3 Senate seats.…

May 17, 2010 – House brought about by the death of John Murtha, who had held that seat for almost as long as Specter was a Republican. … This is a lunchbox-Democrat district which may well elect the Republican.…

May 16, 2010 – in California, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Massachusetts makes it an important voting bloc in key House … What that means in closely contested House and Senate races in states like North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, later this … socially conservative could just as easy find a connection and comfort with a true Republican than with a socially conservative Democrat…

May 13, 2010 – Adam will be challenging Democrat incumbent Debbie Halvorson. … She claims to be an independent-minded Democrat, but her liberal voting record suggests otherwise. … Congress is the “House of the people,” so what exactly is she hiding from?…

May 12, 2010 – President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat … The caustic comeback is another example of the verbal venom between the White House and the conservative radio star.…

May 12, 2010 – Joe Sestak running ahead of Republican-turned-Democrat U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. … Obey is the 17th Democrat to retire against 20 Republicans who have called it quits. … House has the Democrats with 257 seats.…

May 12, 2010 – She spent the summer of 1980 working to elect a left-wing Democrat, Elizabeth Holtzman, to the Senate. … "On Election Night, she drowned her sorrow in vodka and tonic as Ronald Reagan took the White House and Ms. … What may be a little more surprising is that liberal reporters were touting Kagan as a centrist before Obama won the White House.…

May 11, 2010 – West Virginia's Alan Mollohan has become the first House incumbent to lose his seat, losing his primary tonight to a fellow Democrat…

May 11, 2010 – Daniel Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat, the larger-than-life chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. … As many insiders know, "Showdown at Gucci Gulch" references the marbled floors just outside the committee hearing rooms for the House … And just as in 1986, we find our Democrat friends stuck with their hands out.…

May 28, 2010 – Over the past year, the DCCC, the NRCC’s Democrat counterpart, has been working hard to shore up their preferred candidate, Lori Edwards … Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards to their “Red to Blue” program - which the Democrats’ main offensive program for House … After an endorsement from the House Blue Dog Coalition, which is supposedly made up of “Conservative Democrats”, Edwards claimed that…