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Because much of Hollywood political giving is ideological, campaign donations are not usually tied to short-term legislative items, fundraisers said. "Hollywood money for the most part is actually quite pure," said veteran Los Angeles Democratic...
Rep. Darrell Issa, who is heading up investigations into the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, sent a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, claiming he has stonewalled at every turn in a bid to hold up the probe. The California...
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. , second from left, accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb.... View Photo »
He criticized me for – while he was out raising money – serving my country in China, yes, under a Democrat, like my two sons are doing in the United States Navy. They're not asking who -- what political affiliation the president is. I want to be very clear with the people here in New Hampshire and this ...
New political maps being proposed by the state Reapportionment Commission would shift an Oahu Senate seat to Hawaii island and place two Democrats into the same Senate district in the Makiki-Moiliili area. On the House side, five pairs of incumbents...
The White House had a few days earlier released a statement that some parts of the bill went too far, adding wind to the Web storm. By the time the dust cleared, lawmakers had backed off, and the old guard in Hollywood was fuming. “It’s the Rebellion...
While President Barack Obama and congressional leaders publicly jousted over the negotiations, senior Democrats and Republicans worked behind the scenes toward a compromise that would extend the tax and unemployment benefits through the year. A deal...
Sun Ming, who is Chinese and lives in New York City, protests with the Democratic Party of China, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, prior to the arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the White House. View Photo »
Since they still see no movement by Ohio’s Republican governor or GOP legislators, the Democrats are introducing their own bills to set up an exchange.
WASHINGTON — China ’s next leader, Xi Jinping , may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an...
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s budget proposal unveiled Monday would reduce the current level of funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to heat the homes of thousands of low-income New Hampshire residents. The...
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. Full Article
Michael Mufson protests in front of the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
View Photo »Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. , second from left, accompanied by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, following the Democrats'...
View Photo »Sun Ming, who is Chinese and lives in New York City, protests with the Democratic Party of China, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, prior to the arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping to the White House.
View Photo »Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. , left, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. , the ranking Democrat on House Budget Committee, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, to discuss President Barack Obama's fiscal 2013 federal...
View Photo »Members of the Occupy San Diego movement protest in front of the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
View Photo »Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaks at a luncheon during the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
View Photo »House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. , speaks during the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego. Pelosi told more than 2,000 Democrats gathered in San�Diego on Saturday for their party's convention that "the path to a House majority runs...
View Photo »Lilly Marie of Rough and Ready, Calif. , looks for signatures at the entrance to the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
View Photo »FOURTH IN A SERIES OF FIVE IMAGES - Chris McDonough, a Republican, left, and Robert O'Brien, a Democrat, argue about political issues for 30 minutes outside a caucus, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Portland, Maine.
View Photo »FIFTH IN A SERIES OF FIVE IMAGES - Robert O'Brien, a Democrat, left, and Chris McDonough, a Republican, shake hands after a 30 minute argument over political issues outside a caucus, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Portland, Maine.
View Photo »House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. , speaks with reporters and aides after a news conference on the first day of the California Democrats State Convention Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in San Diego. The annual convention continues through Feb. 12.
View Photo »Democrat Suzanne Bonamici receives a hug supporter Luis Nava after winning the special election for Oregon's 1st Congressional District against Republican Rob Cornilles Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, in Portland, Ore. Former Rep. David Wu resigned last year following a string of bizarre news...
View Photo »House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. , right, speaks alongside California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton, left, during a news conference on the first day of the California Democrats State Convention Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in San Diego. The annual convention continues...
View Photo »Sharon Weil celebrates as result come in for Democrat Suzanne Bonamici during a election night party for the special election for Oregon's 1st Congressional District Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, in Portland, Ore. Former Rep. David Wu resigned last year following a string of bizarre news...
View Photo »House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. , reacts during a news conference on the first day of the California Democrats State Convention Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, in San Diego. The annual convention continues through Feb. 12.
View Photo »Kansas House Elections Committee Chairman Scott Schwab, right, an Olathe Republican, confers with Rep. Ann Mah, of Topeka, left, the committee's ranking Democrat, after a meeting, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The committee has endorsed a bill to require new...
View Photo »Sen. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , one of the negotiators on the payroll tax conference committee, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, criticizing Democrats on the bi-partisan...
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , center, accompanied by Sen. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , criticizes Democrats on the deadlocked bi-partisan payroll tax confrence panel, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol...
View Photo »Kansas state Rep. Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat, asks a question during a hearing on Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to overhaul the state's Medicaid program during a House Health and Human Services Committee hearing, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Topeka, Kan.
View Photo »House Democrats from left, Rep. Simone Bell, D-Atlanta, State Rep. Rashad Taylor, D-Atlanta, Rep. Roger Bruce, D-Atlanta, and Lynmore James, D - Montezuma, hold a public hearing to talk about repealing a new law cracking down on illegal immigrants in Georgia Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, at the...
View Photo »State Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, left, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacamento, talk after the end of the Senate session at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. , Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. Lawmakers reconvened briefly the day after Democrats completed their state...
View Photo »Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is greeted by a woman who said she was a Democrat after speaking at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado February 6, 2012. The Colorado caucuses take place February 7, 2012.
View Photo »House Energy and Power subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky. , left, accompanied by the subcommittee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. , speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, during the subcommittee's hearing on American Jobs Now: A legislative hearing...
View Photo »California Gov. Jerry Brown, right, is ushered through a door after addressing the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego. The party's annual convention runs through Feb. 12. Gov. Jerry Brown outlined an optimistic political agenda for California...
View Photo »California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego. The party's annual convention runs through Feb. 12. Gov. Jerry Brown outlined an optimistic political agenda for California Democrats at their party's annual...
View Photo »Michael Mufson protests in front of the California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in San Diego.
View Photo »He criticized me for – while he was out raising money – serving my country in China, yes, under a Democrat, like my two sons are doing in the United States Navy. They're not asking who -- what political affiliation the president is. I want to be very clear with the people here in New Hampshire and this ...
Democrat Steve Cohen, the first Jewish congressman to represent a district in Tennessee, has lost a key constituency, the small Jewish community in Memphis, after the borders of his district were redrawn
A Washington Democrat’s worldview is so federally focused that he will lead you to believe that if he isn’t in charge of something, it simply ceases to exist
We have no doubt the Democrats were able to rally their left-wing base around this baseless and expensive recall effort ... This shameful recall of the governor will accomplish nothing but saddle Wisconsin taxpayers with over $9 million in un-budgeted costs. Voters rejected the Democrats’ era of job los...
We have no doubt the Democrats were able to rally their left-wing base around this baseless and expensive recall effort ... This shameful recall of the governor will accomplish nothing but saddle Wisconsin taxpayers with over $9 million in un-budgeted costs. Voters rejected the Democrats’ era of job los...
The Democrats have already held 22 parties to celebrate costing Wisconsin taxpayers $9 million for this baseless recall ... Throwing parties to celebrate a taxpayer-funded recall election is an insult to Governor Walker’s successful reforms and Wisconsin families who are benefiting from them. Tomorrow’s...
In 1998, there was a seat in the Hawaii Statehouse, and the Democrat was going to win merely by filing her election papers, because there was going to be no Republican running for that seat. So, I thought I should put my money where my mouth is, and after years and years of volunteering for (Rep.) Pat S...
Democrat legislature in Massachusetts
That same struggle was going on in the Democratic Party in Texas 60 years ago.
Since they still see no movement by Ohio’s Republican governor or GOP legislators, the Democrats are introducing their own bills to set up an exchange.
In 2008 Democrats voted for change, in 2010 Republicans took control of the United States House of Representatives frustrated with Washington — what we’ve witnessed these past years is a broken system
This year, turnout in Massachusetts is most likely to be driven by the Presidential election ... President Obama at the top of the ticket will help all Democrats running in the Commonwealth. Even with that, every candidate will have to make their own personal appeal and work hard to earn the support of ...
In short, the House will be relentlessly focused on the issue of jobs in 2012 - with or without the cooperation of Washington Democrats
In an ideal, utopian society, we'd like someone who knows what it's like to struggle as a teacher or a working mum. But Republican or Democrat, they always have money if they end up in the White House.
Come home Jon. Utahans of both parties will welcome you back. The governor's office is yours for the asking, and so is Orrin Hatch's seat in the Senate. Here, we know when we find a leader with character. Signed, Utah Democrats Utah Moderate Republicans Utah Independents
Reversing himself in what had become an awkward intraparty stalemate for Democrats, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey said Friday that he would no longer block President Obama’s nominee to a federal appeals court. Mr. Menendez said he had decided to support the nominee, Magistrate Judge Patty Shwart...
When the Democrats had the majority, we liberals who thought we were the heart of the party had to yield to conservative Democrats, because without them we would not have had the majority ... So you bet your life, if you find it’s not compatible between the group that made you the leader, then you have–...
There’s no question that the way the House of Representatives treated me, which will soon be exposed entirely, we’ve reached a point as to whether anyone Democrat or Republican could afford politically to put themselves in a position like they were defending me as opposed to putting themselves in a posi...
Many Democrats and journalists alike, feeling grouchy, were dismissive of Al Gore and magnified his shortcomings. We forgot the context, prided ourselves on our disdainful superiority—and won eight years of George W. Bush.
Ron Paul’s candidacy is a mirror held up in front of the face of America’s Democratic Party and its progressive wing, and the image that is reflected is an ugly one; more to the point, it’s one they do not want to see because it so violently conflicts with their desired self-perception.
I can guarantee you, Sean, that if this were the Democrats and somebody was taking something that they were saying out of context that every single reporter would be on the news correcting the record so that America would know exactly what that candidate had said ... Now they're doing the exact opposite...
I was criticized last night by Governor Romney for putting my country first. And I just want to remind the people here in New Hampshire and throughout the United States that I think… (APPLAUSE) He criticized me while he was out raising money for serving my country in China, yes, under a Democrat, like m...
That's why I think they like what's going on in New Jersey because I work with Democrats ... We fight like crazy in public. But then we get in a room together and we say there is a boulevard between getting everything you want and compromising your principles. I won't compromise my principles, but I ack...
For the first time since Spitzer’s landslide 2006 victory, a majority of voters – 51 percent – think New York is headed on the right track, compared to only 38 percent who say the state is headed in the wrong direction. This is a major shift since Siena’s November poll when it was 42-46 percent ... Whil...
What I also can tell you about the tea party is that they are not a party. They are Republicans, Democrats and independents who have had enough with Washington. And no member of the tea party will vote in a bloc because someone tells them to. ..You are going to see them very divided through this as they...
