Atty. general bests other Dems in Mass.
USA Today - 37 minutes agoA Republican with a record of winning in Democratic areas and a prosecutor seeking to be Massachusetts' first female senator face off Jan. 19.
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A Republican with a record of winning in Democratic areas and a prosecutor seeking to be Massachusetts' first female senator face off Jan. 19.
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.
Elliott Broidy, a major philanthropist in the Los Angeles Jewish community and a major player in Republican fundraising circles, pleaded guilty to the felony charge of rewarding official misconduct.
With the death last week of Bangor Village President Rob Gjertsen after a long battle with leukemia, the community lost one of staunchest advocates.
RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia's governor-elect, Bob McDonnell, may be the future of the Republican Party, if he can translate his substantial electoral victory into policy victories following his Jan. 16, 2010 inauguration as the state's first GOP governor in eight years.
Businesses planning first responders banquet
Calls for party purity misguided A friend of mine who is a Republican Party officer recently wrote on the popular New York City Republican blog, UrbanElephants.com, to sing the praises of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and urge him to run for Governor or United State Senator next year.
A friend of mine who is a Republican Party officer recently wrote on the popular New York City Republican blog, UrbanElephants.com, to sing the praises of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and urge him to run for Governor or United State Senator next year.
n Abortion, public option still contentious issues as lawmakers haggle, bicker and trade barbs
HELENA — Sen. Max Baucus' disclosure last week that he recommended his girlfriend as a possible nominee for U.S. attorney earlier this year may not cause him much political heartburn, a pair of political scientists said Monday.
Associated Press - December 8, 2009 7:15 AM ET CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Republican Party intends to elect a new committeeman to represent the state on the Republican National...
Republicans attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday after Reid compared opponents of healthcare reform to those who opposed the abolition of slavery. Read more...
The Republican Party's days of putting benchwarmer candidates on the ballot in South Jersey may soon be over.