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House Democrats Keep Beating Republicans In Key Area

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

The chief campaign arm of congressional Democrats continued last month to beat its Republican counterpart in fundraising. The Democratic Congressio...

IRS Scandal Sparks Fundraising Blitz

Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics

By Dave Levinthal Center for Public Integrity The scandal-signed Internal Revenue Service could unwittingly generate a mountain of cash for Repu...

Jennifer Bendery

Democrats Pressure Boehner To Hold Key Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched a new campaign on Monday aimed at pressuring House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio...

House Dems Set Fundraising Record

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee set a record for its own first-quarter fundraising by pulling in $22.6 million over the first three mo...

Obama's Give Up On The GOP Question Explored

Roll Call | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics

Fewer than 75 days into his second term, President Barack Obama already seems resigned to the reality that big chunks of his second-term agenda will d...

Dems Look To Sink GOPers By Linking Them To 'Radical' Paul Ryan

The Huffington Post | Will Wrigley | Posted 04.01.2013 | Politics

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday released the first of 17 online ads attacking congressional Republicans for their support of...

Jennifer Bendery

Democrats Raise $500,000 After Republicans Vote For Paul Ryan's Budget

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Democrats routinely rail against the GOP budget put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), but there's at least one thing they like about i...

House Dems' Fundraising Win

The Huffington Post | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.20.2013 | Politics

The campaign committee for House Democrats raised $6.3 million in February to beat the $4.9 million raised by the House Republicans' counterpart commi...

Obama Returning To Campaign Trail

AP | By JULIE PACE | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will return to the campaign trail next month, heading to California for a pair of fundraisers for Democrati...

Former Wall Street Exec Introduces Bill To Roll Back Key Element Of Wall Street Reform

The Huffington Post | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 03.08.2013 | Politics

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Wall Street executive, is joining Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.) to introduce legislation that would undercut one of ...

Former Goldman Sachs VP Named Dems' Finance Chair

The Huffington Post | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 02.28.2013 | Politics

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), a former Wall Street executive, will serve as the national finance chairman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commit...

Dems Find Political Edge In GOP's Sequester Stance

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Democratic leaders may be mounting a full-court press to head off the impending start of sequestration cuts, but their congressional cam...

Second Amendment Politics: Despite Rumors to Contrary, Tea Party Is Far From Dead

Steven Kurlander | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Steven Kurlander

The president's subsequent leap toward a gun control crusade -- and the substantial, building resistance to it -- is now shifting the political focus back again toward the original tea party agenda against Obama's vision of big government.

Ryan Grim

Call Time For Congress Shows How Fundraising Dominates Bleak Work Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Welcome to town, new members of Congress. Now hit the phones. For an incoming member of Congress still basking in the glow of electo...

Michael McAuliff

Grover Norquist Targeted In Fiscal Cliff Debate By Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 11.28.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- With Republicans showing signs of bending on taxes for the richest Americans as the nation nears the so-called fiscal cliff, Democrats m...

Can Democrats Retake the House in 2014?

Mike Lux | Posted 01.23.2013 | Politics
Mike Lux

The pundits will be predicting doom and gloom for sure. Not only did we fail to win the House back in a good Democratic year, they will remind us, but in the sixth year of a presidency the president's party almost always loses seats.

Dem Launches Longshot Bid Against 'Larger Than Life' Ryan

AP | TODD RICHMOND | Posted 10.31.2012 | Politics

JANESVILLE, Wis. -- Rob Zerban spent his morning on his hands and knees scrubbing a toilet in a homeless shelter. Half a country away, Paul Ryan stood...

Dem Leader Moves On Electoral College Reform

The Huffington Post | Ian Gray | Posted 10.26.2012 | Politics

Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, has proposed a constitutional amendment that would award 29 extr...

Allen West Foes Ready Attack Ad For High-Profile Moment

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- When millions of people tune in for Monday night's presidential debate, those in Florida's newly drawn 18th District -- where the debate...

5 Metaphors to Explain Romney's Tax Plan

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 12.22.2012 | Politics
Dr. Faheem Younus

Where is the guy who pulled our car out of the ditch? Remember? In May of 2010 when President Obama encapsulated a ton of economic jargon for the ave...

DCCC Calls On Voters To 'Fire The Tea Party Congress'

The Huffington Post | Ian Gray | Posted 09.25.2012 | Politics

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee put up a large banner Monday at its Washington headquarters that reads, "FIRE THE TEA PARTY CONGRESS,"...

Democrats Offer Joint Lunch With Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi As Prize To Donors

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.22.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Al Gore has been entirely absent from President Barack Obama's campaign this year and was nowhere to be seen at th...

DCCC Hopes '47 Percent' Comments Will Help Them Take Back House

The Huffington Post | Ian Gray | Posted 09.21.2012 | Politics

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Steve Israel said Friday he thinks the party can use GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's comme...

Make Wall Street the 4th Branch of the Federal Government

Gareth Edmundson | Posted 11.04.2012 | Politics
Gareth Edmundson

If we can't stop money coming into politics then let's at least make sure that we know where it is all the time. And if we know where it is then we can subject it to checks and balances just like the rest of the system. Genius.

House Democrats Hit New Fundraising Record

The Huffington Post | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 09.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A day after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced a $6.8 million fundraising haul for August, the Democratic Congressi...