Sep 30 Cornyn: GOP Congress Would Take Aim at Health Care, Financial Reform Bills If in 33 days American voters put Republicans back in power on Capitol Hill, the head of the Senate Republican campaign arm predicts his party will "pretty quickly" introduce bills to repeal two of President Obama's major legislative accomplishments… Continue reading
Sep 29 Calif. Candidate Whitman Responds to Illegal Immigrant Hiring Revelation Updated 8:12 p.m. ET SAN JOSE, Calif. | Revelations that Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, employed an illegal alien as a housekeeper for nine years have made waves in a tight campaign here. At a… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch Democrats Look to Reinvigorate Youth Vote for Midterms Young voters only made up 12 percent of the 2006 midterm electorate but voted overwhelmingly for Democrats. Judy Woodruff gets three views on the battle for the youth vote and the potential impact in the upcoming elections. Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch News Wrap: Democrats Eke Out Tax Cut Proxy Vote Win In other news Wednesday, the U.S. House staged a proxy fight on whether the Bush-era tax cuts should be extended and the Democrats won by a single vote. In the end, the House moved to adjourn without acting on the… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch Obama Tells Democrats to 'Buck Up' for Midterm Elections President Obama finished out a three-day, four-state campaign trip in hopes of revving up Democratic supporters for the midterm elections. Continue watching
Sep 29 Supreme Court Preview: Marcia Coyle on the Cases and Justices to Watch By Elizabeth Summers Do a Kansas preacher and his anti-gay followers have a constitutional right to picket and protest during the burial of a Marine who was killed in Iraq? How far can the government go in checking the background of a potential… Continue reading
Sep 29 Florida's Three-Way Senate Scramble Each of the three major candidates running for the Senate from Florida seeks to group his two opponents into a single category. Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican, says he is running against opportunistic politicians… Continue reading
Sep 29 Experience Counts? By David Chalian California attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown speaks during a debate against Republican candidate Meg Whitman on Tuesday. Photo by Jose Luis Villegas-Pool/Getty Images. The 2010 midterm election narrative for members of Congress trying to keep their jobs… Continue reading
Sep 28 Ethics Committee GOP Members Allege Stalling on Rangel, Waters Trials Republican members say the House Ethics Committee must "stop stalling the resolution of the Rangel and Waters matters" and complete the Democrats' public trials prior to the November election. In a written statement issued Tuesday afternoon, GOP members accused… Continue reading
Sep 28 Earmarks Good for U.S. Democracy, 'Cheese Factories on the Moon' Argues Earmarks are an oft-maligned process by which members of Congress can request that appropriated federal dollars be spent in a specific way, and that money often winds up spent in the district of the member making the request. Sen. John… Continue reading