White House to government: Continue to open up
CNN - Tue Dec 8, 6:48 pm ETCleaning up the way Washington works and providing a transparent, open government was one of President Obama's key pledges upon taking office.
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Cleaning up the way Washington works and providing a transparent, open government was one of President Obama's key pledges upon taking office.
A Republican with a track record of winning in one of the nation's most Democratic states and a prosecutor seeking to become Massachusetts' first female senator will compete next month in a special election that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley won the Democratic nomination and Sen. Scott Brown won the Republican nod Tuesday night in a special primary election to narrow the field of candidates vying to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
A Republican with a record of winning in Democratic areas and a prosecutor seeking to be Massachusetts' first female senator face off Jan. 19.
Cleaning up the way Washington works and providing a transparent, open government was one of President Obama's key pledges upon taking office.
From Nevada to Washington, calls were mounting Tuesday for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize for comparing opponents of health care reform to supporters of slavery.
Seeking to resolve two contentious issues blocking health-care reform in the Senate, lawmakers began consideration Monday of an amendment to restrict abortion coverage, while Democrats closed in on alternatives to the public-insurance option.
Liberal and centrist Democrats worked on a deal for a public option as the majority leader’s slavery analogy drew Republican ire.
Naples —Collier County GOP Chairman Carla Dean has announced she will step down from her post effective Jan. 11.Dean was originally elected to the post in December 2004 and subsequently re-elected in 2006 and 2008. Dean also served as the vice chairman for one year.Dean was appointed by the Republican Party of Florida Chairman to the State Party Rules and Constitution Committee and the Women’s ...
RNC Chair Says Left Plays the Race Card When They're Not Getting What They Want
Matt Bostrom, an assistant St. Paul police chief, made his bid for Ramsey County sheriff official today at the Landmark Center in St. Paul.
The former chairman of the Republican National Committee says that new immigration reform efforts will give his a party a chance to soften its tone on the issue.
With time growing short, Senate Democratic liberals are seeking expansion of two large federal programs, Medicare and Medicaid, as part of a compromise that drops a government insurance option from health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, several lawmakers said Monday.
RICHMOND -- Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell warned his fellow Republicans Tuesday about the danger of creating an ideological "purity test" to weed out moderate candidates, a nod to the increasingly important role independents play in Virginia politics.
WASHINGTON — Perhaps a time-out for etiquette could be helpful in the health care debate, which opened this week with incendiary remarks and wild claims in a discussion that has already seen plenty of both.
Republican foes of the president's health plan are just like those lawmakers who once dragged their heels to end slavery -- doling out the "same excuses" to wrongly maintain the status quo, the Senate's leading Democrat charged yesterday. "Instead...
RNC chairman: Focus on lagging economy instead.
When Chris Strouth found out he had kidney disease, he named his sickness Harold. It was a way to deal with something that might kill him, and the name was a lot easier to remember than IGA Nephropathy. Strouth has coped with Harold for about three years, but by last winter, his l...
She knows if you've been bad or good COLORADO SPRINGS - Hundreds of people spent a frigid Tuesday afternoon hunkered down with books inside the Chapel Hills Mall, but they'd likely all have waited just as long outside in the sub-zero temperatures for a chance to see Sarah Palin.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid upped the rhetorical tension Monday during debate on healthcare, invoking times of slavery and women's suffrage fight.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus defended recommending his girlfriend for appointment as Montana’s U.S. attorney, saying Saturday his one-time staff member and the former state prosecutor is “highly qualified” but eventually withdrew her nomination.