Politics
By
Jennifer Bendery
Rep. Michele Bachmann is calling on President Barack Obama and House Democratic leaders to say “I’m sorry” for attaching mandatory spending to health care reform.
By
Jennifer Yachnin
Rep. Frank LoBiondo’s former treasurer plead guilty Friday to embezzling more than $450,000 from the Republican’s campaign accounts, the Justice Department announced.
By
John Stanton
Speaker John Boehner on Friday announced he would inject the House into the legal fight over the Obama administration’s decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
By
Paul Singer
Attendees at the January Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been confused when they ran into Darrell Issa: Were they meeting the California Republican Congressman and new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee? Or were they meeting the board member of a private company Issa founded called DEI Holdings Inc.?
At the Races
By
Kyle Trygstad
Former Rep. Heather Wilson will announce Monday that she is running for New Mexico’s open Senate seat in 2012.
By
Steven T. Dennis
A meeting Thursday between Congressional leaders and Vice President Joseph Biden to resolve the dispute over funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year ended with a pledge to keep negotiating.
Politics
By
Jessica Brady
Hawaii Democrat won’t say if she’ll consider running for Sen. Daniel Akaka’s seat.
Politics
By
Tricia Miller
Texas National Committeeman Bill Crocker will serve as the Republican National Committee’s next general counsel, Chairman Reince Priebus announced Thursday.
By
Jessica Brady
Rep. David Wu said it was “a huge wake-up call” when six of his longtime staffers resigned after the 2010 elections.
At the Races
By
David M. Drucker
Rep. Trent Franks appears closer to a decision on whether to enter the Republican primary for Senate in Arizona, with one knowledgeable Grand Canyon State source saying the GOP Congressman has already begun signaling that he will in fact run.
By
David M. Drucker
Senate Republicans are asking President Barack Obama to withdraw Donald Berwick as his nominee to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
