S. Supreme Court ruling that President Barack Obama and others warn may drown out the voice of the American people by allowing corporations, unions and other groups to spend unlimited funds in political campaigns without even identifying themselves.
On a largely party-line vote of 219-206, the Democratic-led House sent the bill to the Senate where it [...]
The biggest primary night of the season left the two parties struggling Wednesday to figure out their next steps in an increasingly volatile election year. House Republicans tried to explain their costly defeat in a special election in Pennsylvania, a contest they had hoped would launch them toward big gains in Novembers midterm elections. [...]
S. Senate, revisiting their main campaign themes at a GOP dinner Saturday night as their primary showdown loomed.
Sharing a stage for a final time before Tuesdays contest, both gave campaign pitches honed from months of crisscrossing Kentucky.
In back-to-back speeches, Paul repeated themes of ending government bailouts and balancing the federal budget while Grayson [...]
S. Senate primary, opting instead to run affable spots featuring some of his more prominent supporters.
It will be a radical change in tone in what has been a bitter fight for the GOP nomination to run for retiring Republican Sen. Jim Bunnings seat.
Polls show Paul, a tea party favorite, with a double-digit lead [...]
The combination is evident in one of Bauers favorite memories from the 2008 presidential primaries, when Obama campaign aides worried that opposing forces were trying to depress voter turnout. Bauer, the campaigns top lawyer, confidently reassured staffers that hed have anyone engaged in such conduct arrested.
It was a morale-boosting bit of bluster that campaign workers [...]
Democrats at the state partys annual convention had a brash message at a time when polls show President Barack Obamas popularity slipping and party candidates in tight races across the country: Bring it on.
“Democrats are for protecting the peoples interest; Republicans are protecting the special interests. Democrats are protecting consumers and small businesses on Main [...]
Federal campaign finance records describe the March 4 check to Joe Racalto from Massas campaign account as a “campaign management fee.” Massa had announced a day earlier, on March 3, that he would resign his seat.
Racaltos lawyer, Camilla McKinney, said Friday the check was a “deferred payment” for Racaltos work this year and last year [...]
The Shawmut Group, led by aides to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, is helping GOP congressional candidate John Loughlin, whos campaigning to replace retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
The handiwork of two Shawmut Group principals, Eric Fehrnstrom and Peter Flaherty, was evident in Loughlins campaign announcement speech, staged shortly after Browns win on Jan. 19. Loughlin, [...]
Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans, is facing the perils of bipartisanship unlike any other lawmaker in Washington – trying to please a heavily Democratic constituency while relying on core conservatives for money to fuel his campaign.
Although Republican leaders have continued supporting Cao with money from their campaign committees despite his [...]
President Barack Obama pledged to close the jail by January, but logistical woes and Republican roadblocks on Capitol Hill have made fulfilling that promise less likely. Much of resistance has been whipped up by former Vice President Dick Cheney, who warns that closing the prison would endanger national security.
The campaign, Close Gitmo Now, includes a [...]