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U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, joined Democrats in passing an omnibus $1.1 trillion spending measure that boosted federal agency budgets by almost 10 percent on average and included more than 5,000 earmarks, including 22 projects in his district totaling more than $20 million.
Representative Chet Edwards released this statement about the 2010 Congressional Race Thursday afternoon.
U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, said on Wednesday that he supported House passage of a bill providing tax relief to middle class families and businesses and allowing Texas taxpayers to continue to deduct local and state sales taxes from their federal income taxes.
U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards filed for re-election in November’s election to his District 17 seat on Thursday. Edwards has won 10 consecutive elections and begins his 2010 campaign with more than $1 million in the bank, said Elizabeth Connor, Edwards campaign manager.
U.S. Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) recently voted in support of HR 3288, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision in the omnibus that waives the restrictions on Community Development Block Grant funding from being used as local match requirements for other federal funding in areas affected by Hurricane Ike and all other federally declared disasters in 2008.
State Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, a powerful state lawmaker whose name had been mentioned as a possible 2010 opponent to Democratic U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, of Waco, appears to have closed that door, opting instead to seek re-election.
Van Taylor, who ran against U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, in 2006, is out of McLennan County, but he’s not out of politics.
More than 30 years of work will come to fruition this weekend with Saturday's opening of the Waco Mammoth Site. "Opening the Waco Mammoth Site to the public has been a long journey for Central Texas and the supporters of the historic Waco Mammoth Site," Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, stated Tuesday.
In a nationally televised speech Tuesday night from the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama said he’s sending tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, but pledged to begin withdrawing the forces within 18 months.
In addition to national and state elections next year, Johnson County residents will weigh in on numerous local elections next November. The filing period to compete in the March 2 primaries continues through Jan. 4.
A senior adviser to former North Carolina senator John Edwards approached representatives for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in an effort to secure a vice presidential nomination during the 2008 election, according to a new book by Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe.
Democrat John Edwards tried to cut a secret deal with Barack Obama and perhaps Hillary Clinton during last year's presidential primaries, offering his endorsement in exchange for the vice presidential nomination, according to a new book by Obama's campaign manager.
WASHINGTON — Democrat John Edwards tried to cut a secret deal with Barack Obama and perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton during last year's presidential primaries, offering his endorsement in exchange for the vice presidential nomination, according to a new book by Obama's campaign manager.
What's Your Reaction? David Plouffe's claim in his new book on Campaign 2008 that the Edwards camp suggested he be made Veep in exchange for dropping out of the race is accurate, the Edwards adviser who had the conversation with Plouffe tells me.
WASHINGTON -- Here is how area members of Congress -- Reps. Joe Donnelly and Peter Visclosky and Sens. Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar -- voted over the previous week. REQUIRING CRIME REPORTING BY CRUISE VESSELS: The House approved the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (H.R. 3360), sponsored by Rep. Doris Matsui , D-Calif., to create crime reporting and safety requirements for cruise vessels ...
After years of campaigns by lawmakers and local citizens, a postal stamp honoring Waco World War II hero Doris Miller will be unveiled next year.