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The past two polls in the race showed Democrat Kathy Hochul (right) with a small lead over Republican Jane Corwin.
The political world will be watching western New York today. It is there, along the suburbs of Buffalo and Rochester, that the stage is set for a GOP special election upset in the once-sleepy race to succeed former Rep. Chris Lee (R).
The Senate vote this week on the budget blueprint of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will be a gut-check moment for Republicans, who risk angering constituents no matter what they do.
Congressional Democrats are gathering signatures this week on a letter to the White House supporting a draft executive order that would compel government contractors to disclose their political spending.
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Sen. Kay Hagan (D) will host the North Carolina delegation for an “American Idol” finale viewing party tonight.
Former Illinois Deputy Treasurer Raja Krishnamoorthi (D) launched an exploratory committee Monday to look at running for the House in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.
With a highway bill stalled and a ban on earmarks in Congress, some Washington, D.C., lobbyists are telling their clients to staff up for local battles over federal transportation funds.
House Republicans are trying again to focus their efforts on a job creation agenda, with leaders acknowledging they want to boost the GOP’s political standing with voters.
Capitol Hill denizens won’t have trouble finding a doctor in the House — or Senate on Tuesday. That’s because nearly 500 emergency physicians will be on the Hill lobbying for a medical liability reform bill.
OPINION
By Don Wolfensberger | 48 minutes agoOn Feb. 23, President Barack Obama divorced himself from the Defense of Marriage Act by directing the Justice Department to stop defending its constitutionality in the courts. That prompted a partisan split in the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group on March 9 over whether the House should defend the act.
By Stuart Rothenberg | 48 minutes ago
That former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely regarded as one of the top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination says a great deal about the GOP field.
OPINION
By Stan Collender | 48 minutes agoIt obviously would have been a terrible event for the human race if the world had ended Saturday as some had prophesied, but it might not have been all that bad from a federal budget perspective.
Top Republicans in South Carolina say a map released by the state House Judiciary Subcommittee last week is likely to be close to the final product that gets signed into law.
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By Shira Toeplitz, Kyle Trygstad, Steve Peoples | 48 minutes agoRoll Call Politics is releasing the first House ratings for the 2012 cycle. We’re beginning with the states that elect Members to at-large seats. The seven seats are largely expected to not be competitive, except in Montana.
House Republicans will unveil a jobs-growth agenda May 26, Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters May 23 in the Capitol. The initiative, which will include tax and regulatory reform, marks House Republicans’ return to the jobs issue after months spent focusing on spending cuts and follows several unsuccessful attempts to cast job growth as part of a larger economic platform.
Amy Niles Gonzalez and several other former strategists at MSHC Partners recently launched the website for Blueprint Interactive, a new media strategy, marketing and design firm.
Sen. Thad Cochran learned much about politics and campaigning when he ran to be elected a cheerleader in college.
A small, bipartisan group of Senators formed Monday in an unsuccessful attempt to block a reauthorization of the Sept. 11-era anti-terrorism law known as the USA PATRIOT Act.
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