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If it was a good day for salmon in Bristol Bay, the signs were mixed elsewhere.
If it was a good day for salmon in Bristol Bay, the signs were mixed elsewhere.
Katie Halper | Posted 08.10.2011
Posted 05.25.2011
By Bruce Alpert The Times-Picayune/Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) When Sen. David Vitter admitted in 2007 to a "very serious sin" after his ...
AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — Republican Sen. David Vitter survived a 2007 prostitution scandal and has shrugged off fresh questions about his judgment in allow...
AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — An ethics watchdog group filed a federal complaint Thursday accusing Republican Sen. David Vitter of accepting illegal campaign con...
Cate Long | Posted 05.25.2011
A fight's a'brewin in room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building... This is the committee room of the Senate Banking Committee...
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 05.25.2011
Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.
New York Times | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 05.25.2011
A Republican senator's proposal to count only United States citizens when reapportioning Congress would cost California five seats and New York and Il...
The Hill's Briefing Room | Michael O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011
The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint against Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Friday, accusing Vitter of using his taxpaye...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
Check out this statement we just got from the Louisiana Democratic Party, responding to Republican Sen. David Vitter's recent Web ad going after his p...
AP | BEN EVANS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Barack Obama's pick to head the nation's emergency management agency Tuesday after a Louisiana Repub...
McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011
A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate's nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ....
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011
Don't get me wrong. It was a stupid joke and Joe definitely is a stupid man, but one thing that Mr. The Plumber does know how to do quite well... is market himself.
Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
This hasn't been a very good week for Louisiana Sen. David Vitter but it's ending on a positive note: Family Research Council president Tony Perkins h...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE 3/24: Vitter has been cleared in the TSA investigation of his airport tantrum. CNN reports: The Transportation Security Administration said T...
Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011
Republicans like Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-AZ), have been attacking the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, claiming that it has too ...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), whose career became mired in the D.C. Madam prostitution scandal back in 2007, and is now headed into his 2010 re-election c...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE 2/13: Daniels has reached out to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt to run her Senate campaign. The Times-Picayune reports: In a telephone intervi...
Hot Air | Posted 05.25.2011
A quickie from this morning's chat with Laura Ingraham courtesy of her producer, Tom Elliott. The observation's unremarkable -- the boss mocks the, er...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
President Barack Obama's decision to freeze top White House staff salaries may force members of Congress to do something they never want to do -- bloc...
Times-Picayune | Bruce Alpert and Bill Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has been mostly mum on the prostitution scandal that forced Democratic New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer to announce his resignati...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Defense attorneys spared Sen. David Vitter an embarrassing trip to the witness stand in a federal prostitution trial Monday as they...
AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify on behalf of a woman accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution ser...
Politico | Martin Kady II | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. David Vitter has tried move on after his embarrassing hooker scandal, but Hustler magazine won't let him. In a magazine interview hitting the ra...
Carl Pope | Posted 12.19.2011