UPDATE: Henry Waxman made Blue Dog Democrats an offer that could lead to an agreement on health care legislation after a three-hour meeting on Monda...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
House Democrats issued a warning to President Obama on Tuesday: Cool it with the signing statements. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the Financial Ser...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
Ignoring criticism - namely from Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid - that intra-party targeting was ineffective, Barack Obama's campaign arm is expan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
House Democrats have reversed a decision by President Obama and removed a ban on federal funding for needle-exchange programs that he included in the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she's seeing "a great narrowing of the undecided" in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill this week. Not enough, h...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics
The Democratic Party showed on Friday what it's capable of when led by the majority of its members rather than its conservative wing. In stark contras...
Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
This bold new Peace Corps needs a bold new leader with the initiative, energy and decisiveness to turn the organization from a child of the Sixties until a vibrant creature of the 21st century.
Michael DeJong | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
I hope that the Sierra Club continues to support the new proposed bill more enthusiastically than they have the "greenwashing" efforts of their shot-gun bride, Clorox Corporation.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
Shortly after President Obama's Inauguration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) let Republicans know that the election would come with consequence...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress are organizing to squash a White House proposal that would require veterans to use private insurance to pay for treatment of the...
CNN | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
House Democratic aides denied Wednesday that work is already underway on a second stimulus package....
The Plum Line | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
The House on Thursday passed bankruptcy reform legislation that dealt the banking industry its first major defeat since 1994. The bill, passed 234-191...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
CNN reports that a dozen House Republicans are targeted in a new House Democratic political campaign that criticizes them for opposing the $787 billio...
New York Times | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but h...
The Nation | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
The House of Representatives is a body that produces few stars, but Jim Cooper of Tennessee is a household name inside the Beltway. David Brooks has c...
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Two years out, Democratic campaign leaders have differing outlooks for the next election cycle in 2010. On the House side, there's pessimism, as Polit...
The Plum Line | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
Okay, here's some more for you on that big advantage that Congressional Republicans seem to have over Democrats when it comes to getting on the cable ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
It's been called a Christmas tree of spending, a sop to liberal priorities, and a Democratic power-grab in the guise of an economic recovery package. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
House Democrats brandished a Gallup poll out Tuesday showing that 75 percent of Americans want Congress to pass some version of President's Obama's st...
The Plum Line | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
GOP leaders -- led by John Boehner and Eric Cantor -- have spent days bashing the economic stimulus package being touted by President Obama and Democr...
Mary Lyon | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
1 7 09 Blago for Senate Majority Leader By Mary Lyon There! I said it. Yes. I know embattled and ethically - well, um - relaxed Illinois Governor ...
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that leading House Democrats are currently drafting a non-binding congr...
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The financial turmoil that has devastated the stock market is also battering Republicans in congressional races, giving Democrats a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics