It’s a question few in the Senate will ask aloud but one that’s creeping into the chamber’s collective consciousness: What happens to Democrats if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid really does get knocked off in the 2010 midterm elections? Full Story »
Paul G. Kirk Jr. has spent most of his life in politics, rising from Senate aide to Democratic National Committee chairman and later co-chairing the Commission on Presidential Debates. But he has kept himself outside the spotlight and is known as a calm and cautious strategist. An associate of Kirk's told The New York Times in 1985: ''Behind that quiet exterior is a quiet interior.'' Full Story »
The White House asked New York Gov. David Paterson to step aside at least in part because the administration was asked to intervene by members of Congress and state legislators who raised serious alarms about a potential Paterson drag on the ticket in 2010. Full Story »
House Democrats could move legislation as early as this week to prevent Medicare premiums from rising sharply for certain senior citizens. Full Story »
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rebuffed Republican efforts Wednesday to delay a vote on a health care overhaul and to gut major provisions of the legislation. Full Story »
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday he will try again to find a bipartisan approach to a health care overhaul by reaching out to a few Republican leaders who have said they agree with about 80 percent of the ideas House Democrats have outlined. Full Story »
The cap-and-trade movement, spooked by the pounding health care reform took over the August break, is scrambling to persuade nervous Democrats they won’t suffer politically for taking another tough vote this year. Full Story »
Powered by big giving from its top three leaders, the campaign arm of House Democrats narrowly outraised its Republican counterpart in August, according to reports just filed with the Federal Election Commission. Full Story »
President Barack Obama caught at least one top Democrat by surprise when he told Congress its health care bill should cost less than $900 billion — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Full Story »
Blue Dogs and other conservative Democrats — uneasy with a key element of President Barack Obama’s plan to regulate Wall Street — are rallying around an alternative proposal that scraps the consumer financial protection agency the president has been pushing. Full Story »
The increasingly aggressive Democratic National Committee on Friday launched a new “Call ’Em Out” website targeting prominent Republicans for statements they have made about President Barack Obama’s health reform plans. Full Story »
Jimmy Carter is 84 years old and three decades removed from the White House, but he still has the power to make Democrats run. Full Story »
House Democrats dealt South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson a formal rebuke Tuesday, taking the rare step of passing a resolution of disapproval for his famous “You lie!” outburst last week in the House chamber. Full Story »
House Democratic leaders will move ahead with a "resolution of disapproval" against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday afternoon, following through on their threat to sanction the conservative lawmaker for heckling President Obama during his speech to Congress last week. Full Story »
AUSTIN – Eight months into Barack Obama’s presidency, as criticism of his administration seems to reach new levels of volume and intensity each week, the whispers among some of his allies are growing louder: That those who loathe the nation’s first African-American president, and especially those who would deny his citizenship, are driven at least in part by racism. Full Story »
A defiant Rep. Joe Wilson says he has no plans to make further apologies to President Barack Obama or House Democrats, setting up a showdown this week on sanctioning the South Carolina Republican for yelling out “You lie!” during Obama’s speech to Congress last week. Full Story »
Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday he is "not going to apologize again" for his outburst during President Obama's address, accusing House Democrats of "playing politics" and "trying to divert attention" from voters' concerns about health care overhaul legislation. Full Story »
The Republican National Committee says it has gotten an ad by its Democratic counterpart pulled from half the media markets in which it was running. Full Story »
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