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by Frank James No signs yet that the Era of Good Feelings is about to break out in the nation's capital. Check out this press release from the office of House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner: Boehner Statement on Economic......

by Mark Silva With added sweeteners for resistant Republicans and Democrats alike, Senate leaders are voicing confidence today that they can win the $700-billion bailout of the nation's financial markets stalled on Capitol Hill. "We're going to fix the...

by Frank James The shake-up among House Republicans continues. Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republicans second-in-command, is giving up his leadership position. The Association Press has a small report on it: WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, the...

by Frank James, Janet Hook and Peter Nicholas and updated Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is battling a malignant brain cancer, collapsed at the congressional lunch for President Obama currently underway in the U.S. Capitol. Obama confirmed that it was......

by Mark Silva To hear House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tell it, she was channeling all of America when she voted for the president's $787-billion economic stimulus bill today. "I could feel it myself, when I turned in my voting card,......

by Mark Silva Unemployment at a 25-year high. The stock market at a 12-year low. Mortgage foreclosures, bank failures and massive layoffs -- 2.6 million jobs lost in the last four months, more than 4 million lost since the start......

by Mark Silva As President Barack Obama pushes for healthcare reform this summer, he also is attempting to rally that 'permanent campaign'' of supporters known as Organizing for America. The president recently telephoned supporters from Air Force One, and...

by Mike Memoli Two sitting members of the House of Representatives -- one Republican, one Democrat -- each have released new television ads for their Senate campaigns in the past 24 hours with a common message: Congress cannot be trusted......

by Mike Memoli President Obama is back on the political circuit, with fundraisers planned in the next two days for Democratic Senate candidates in Missouri and Nevada. Obama has already held events for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.......

by Mike Memoli A new poll in Missouri crystallizes something we've written about before -- how President Obama's sagging poll ratings will affect Democratic candidates this November. Mason Dixon finds that in Missouri, Obama's job approval rating is...

by Mike Memoli Noam Levey writes today on the first court victory for opponents of the health care reform law: U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson did not rule on the central issue in the lawsuit brought by Virginia Atty.......

by Matthew Hay Brown House Republicans unveiled a new slogan today to go with their long-anticipated rebranding effort for the 2008 elections. And as several bloggers now have pointed out, it turns out it's already being used - to market......