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Within hours a host of gay or liberal activists endorsed the move -- Daily Kos, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, Dan Savage, Michelangelo Signorile, David Mixner, Andy Towle and Michael Goff of Towleroad, Paul Sousa of Boston's Equal Rep, Pam Spaulding, Robin...
Tags: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee, DCCC, House, Stupak Amendment, San Francisco
Creamer, is a friend of White House adviser David Axelrod and the husband of Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. A major Democratic Party political strategist, he is the author of a 628-page book that describes how the Democrats can become the...
Tags: Robert W. Creamer, Barack Obama, Senate, Catholic Bishops, faith community, White House, USCCB, public option, federal funding, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Conservative Democrat, Politics, Jan Schakowsky, Republican Party, Social Issues, Political parties in the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Religion Belief, John Boehner, Democratic Party
Whether he intended to or not, when Rep. Dennis Moore announced that he was retiring from Congress he shook the Kansas political landscape for the next year. Moore, the state's lone Democrat in Congress, announced he would not seek a seventh term representing...
Tags: National Republican Congressional Committee, Kansas City, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, northeast Kansas, Kansas House, Gabby Adler, Lynn Jenkins, Tom Erickson, Dennis Moore, political landscape, Topeka, Kansas, Politics, Vince Snowbarger, District attorneys, Nancy Boyda, Nick Jordan, Todd Tiahrt
Inviting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to a $100-a-plate breakfast event next month for Congressional candidate Ethan Hastert has raised criticism from three of his Republican Primary opponents. But politicos say despite Gingrich's controversial...
Tags: House Newt Gingrich, Ethan Hastert, Dennis Hastert, Matthew Streb, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Gabby Adler, Andrew Nelms, Geneva, Bill Foster, Politics, University of West Georgia, Randy Evans, Newt Gingrich
Fundraising for Democratic campaign committees is surging, helping the party to extend a winning streak in competitive special elections and giving House Democrats a more than 3-to-1 advantage over Republicans in cash stockpiled for the battles ahead,...
Tags: Democratic House, New York City, International Democrat Union, Republican Party, Politics, Jackson Michigan, Democratic National Committee, United States House of Representatives elections 2006 - notable races, Social Issues, Politics of New York, Daily Kos, Political parties in the United States, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Chris Van Hollen, Democratic Party
In the battle for Congress, 41 is the crucial number. That's the number of seats the Republicans need to win back from the Democrats in next year's midterm elections to take control of the House of Representatives. Next November, all 435 seats in the...
Tags: health care, House of Representatives, House Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Congressional Democrats, Atlanta, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, United States House of Representatives elections 2006 - notable races, United States House of Representatives elections, Political parties in the United States, International Democrat Union, Jackson Michigan, Politics
Republican Rep. Tom McClintock says the federal government has wasted enough money subsidizing solar power, calculating that it would take 22,000 acres of solid solar panels to duplicate the energy from a single nuclear plant. "This is an industry that...
Tags: Tom McClintock, California, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, health care, Rothenberg Political Report, House, Elk Grove, Kenneth McClintock, California State Senators, Democratic Party, Politics
Rep. Larry Kissell bucked his party and voted against health care legislation, June Mabry's phone line is still burning up with calls from angry Democrats. "They feel like they got hit in the gut," says Mabry, 8th District Democratic chair. "There are...
Tags: Larry Kissell, health care, Medicare Advantage, House, 8th district, Barack Obama, June Mabry, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Michael Lawson of Charlotte, Albemarle, United States National Health Care Act, Medicare, North Carolina Democratic Party, Healthcare reform in the United States, Robin Hayes, Politics, Social Issues
Canastota, N.Y. The moderate Republican who suddenly abandoned her campaign in an Upstate New York Congressional race that has exposed deep divisions in the Republican Party urged her supporters on Sunday to vote for the Democratic candidate a surprising...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Jon Corzine, Upstate New York Congressional, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, New Jersey, Mr. Obama, upstate New York, Moves Jumble N.Y. House
Silvan Johnson adores Sarah Palin, belongs to a conservative discussion group and fumes at President Obama's spending policies. But when it comes to picking a new congressional representative for her upstate New York district, she is in no mood to help...
Tags: Sarah Palin, Dede Scozzafava, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democrats in Congress, GOP, New York district