News Source: The Hill
| 26 days ago
Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), touted his party's victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections. "Virginia and New Jersey elected new governors Tuesday, and in both cases, voters chose...
News Source: Washington Post
| 27 days ago
Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, November 7, 2009 The 177 Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to unanimously oppose health-care legislation that would constitute the biggest expansion of insurance to Americans in decades,...
News Source: The Age
| 27 days ago
Obama, who wooed skittish fellow Democrats by telephone Friday, hoped to bring the full persuasive power of the presidency to bear in an 11th-hour push to secure the 218 votes needed to prevail in the House of Representatives. "The sales pitch is...
News Source: The New York Times
| 27 days ago
As Congress prepares to vote on a health care bill this weekend, however, there were indications on Capitol Hill that the Democratic setbacks on Tuesday were not high on the list of factors influencing even politically vulnerable Democrats as they...
News Source: Voice of America
| 27 days ago
One year after his election as U.S. president, Barack Obama faces an increasingly challenging political situation at home, with rising anger on the right and growing nervousness among many of his fellow Democrats in Congress. It has been a difficult...
News Source: The Washington Times
| 27 days ago
Neither Barack Obama nor Nancy Pelosi can be as clueless as they want us to think they are. The White House said the president was so uninterested in the results on election night that he watched a documentary on the '08 presidential campaign, no...