Byron Dorgan

Tax cuts, jobless insurance: Voting 277 for and 148 against, the House on Dec. 17 sent the White House a package of tax cuts and economic-stimulus measures negotiated by President Obama and congressional Republicans. The bill (HR4853) would add $858...

Three Democrats and a GOP state chair pack in their jobs in these arduous political times....

by Mark Silva The word today is that two senior Democratic members of the Senate are on their way out at year's end: Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota announced his retirement on Tuesday, and Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut......

With Democrats bailing from the Senate and from statewide races all over the country, Republicans are planning a recruitment drive, eager to capitalize on the backlash to the big-spending policies of the Obama administration and a Congress steered by...

by Mark Silva The other Democratic senator who announced his retirement this week, Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, is leaving his party to a more competitive contest for the vacancy which he will leave at year's end. Dorgan talked......

The prospect of a little-known Republican state legislator besting the Democratic establishment in liberal Massachusetts was considered unlikely as recently as a month ago. Then Tuesday night Scott Brown walloped Martha Coakley in the bluest state in...

INDIANAPOLIS – Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh says he will not run for a third term in Congress. Bayh said at a news conference in Indianapolis on Monday that he believed he would have been re-elected despite "the current challenging environment" in Congress....

WASHINGTON -- With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor - all Democrats - ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama's party. Taken together, the decisions by Sens....

Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, a five-term Democrat whose political stock began falling after the financial meltdown and his failed 2008 presidential bid, has decided not to seek re-election in November, Democratic officials told The Associated...

by Mike Memoli A panel of Democratic party officials in South Carolina Thursday reluctantly accepted results of a June 8 primary won by a complete unknown candidate who's become something of a national embarrassment. The candidate expected to win, Vic.......

By Bill Gibson   Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A bill that would ease the process of selling food to Cuba is heading toward the Senate floor. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday added the Cuba provision to a broader financial ser...

Derided as silly, goofy and unnecessary, the special election to fill out the last two months of the seat now held by temporary Sen. Roland Burris stands to make at least some difference for the winner. Smart money says the......