| Feb 9 | No Votes In The House This Week House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced this afternoon that the House will not hold votes this week due to weather-related travel troubles for members attempting to get back into town. The House was already scheduled to be out of session next we.. |
| Feb 9 | Congressional Leaders React To White House Meeting The immediate reactions are in from the congressional leaders in attendance for a small gathering at the White House today to discuss a jobs bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid: \"Today\'s meeting with the President was productive. I applaud his c.. |
| Feb 9 | Show Must Go On: White House Moves up Concert by a Day President Barack Obama flaunted his Chicago roots over the weekend, mocking Snowmegeddon in Washington, but it was the White House on Tuesday that was scrambling schedules ahead of storm No. 2. A concert planned for Wednesday that was to celebrate.. |
| Feb 9 | Bloomberg Pulls Recalled Toyotas From New York City Fleet New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg\'s administration pulled all of its 2010 Toyota Prius vehicles from the road ahead of Tuesday\'s recall from the world\'s largest automaker. |
| Feb 9 | Shelby Drops Holds on All But Three Defense Nominees Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., has stopped blocking most of President Obama’s pending nominations but still has holds on three Defense Department nominees over an Air Force project of interest to his state. |
| Feb 9 | Arpaio Blasts McCain\'s \"Liberal\" Policies Maricopa Co. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is urging GOPers to shelve Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in favor of ex-Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R), a challenger attacking from the right, in a new letter sent to primary voters. \"Senator McCain has served this country admirabl.. |
| Feb 9 | Ritter to Take Campaign Finance Law Dispute to State\'s High Court Gov. Bill Ritter plans to take a dispute over campaign finance laws straight to the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday. |
| Feb 9 | Strickland Still Trails in Ohio A new Rasmussen survey in Ohio shows little improvement for Gov. Ted Strickland (D), who trails challenger John Kasich (R), 47% to 41%. This reflects a two point increase since December, but Strickland still has a fair amount of ground to make up. |
| Feb 9 | Opposing Michelle Obama\'s Obesity Push Michelle Obama is rolling out a campaign to fight childhood obesity today, but she may be wading into complicated political territory, with states\' rights advocates and civil libertarians opposed to federal intervention in school lunches and fearful .. |
| Feb 9 | Arizona Senate: Arpaio Lends Fundraising Muscle to Hayworth Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is stepping up his fundraising assistance for former Rep. J.D. Hayworth and his nascent Senate campaign. Arpaio, who has built a national profile from his controversial efforts to root out illegal immigration in Ar.. |
| Feb 9 | Steele Blames Criticism on Racism In an interview with Washingtonian , RNC Chairman Michael Steele talks about \"a double standard that he believes has been applied by his critics\" and suggests it\'s race-related. Said Steele: \"I don\'t see stories about the internal operations of the D.. |
| Feb 9 | President or Bag Man? Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty showed up to give a speech to GOP activists in Alabama on Friday. But he didn\'t just bring himself. He also carried with him a $100,000 check for the state Republican party from a mystery donor. No one\'s saying who .. |
| Feb 9 | New York Comedian May Seek Libertarian Nomination for U.S. Senate Randy Credico, a somewhat famous comedian, announced in January 2010 that he intends to run in the Democratic primary in New York for U.S. Senate, against incumbent Charles Schumer. He has more recently said that he may seek the Libertarian Party no.. |
| Feb 9 | Dicks Seeks Votes For Defense Appropriations Chairmanship When Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) died Monday at the age of 77, he left open his chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee\'s Defense Subcommittee, the most influential position in the House for Defense appropriations. Seniority would indicate tha.. |
| Feb 9 | Reid to offer jobs bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will introduce a jobs bill on Tuesday that he said would have Republican support. Read more... |
| Feb 9 | The Tea Party in Context Matt Yglesias puts yesterday\'s poll which showed 33% of Iowans support the \"tea party\" movement into context, noting that \"38% of Americans have a favorable view of Cuba and 36% are favorably disposed toward socialism, but I don\'t see anyone writing.. |
| Feb 9 | Michael Steele Suggests Criticism Of His Tenure Motivated By Racism It\'s been awhile since Michael Steele has landed himself in the news, but this might stir things up again: In a new interview, Steele bluntly suggests criticism of his tenure — and all the media coverage it\'s garnered — may be motivated .. |
| Feb 9 | GOPers Promote 28 Candidates The NRCC has promoted 28 of their best-performing candidates to new levels of the party\'s \"Young Guns\" program for promising challengers. A total of 15 candidates have reached \"contender\" status and another 13 are now \"on the radar,\" the third tier .. |
| Feb 9 | Ala. gov race wide open for GOP With Alabama\'s Republican governor, Bob Riley, term-limited out of office in 2010, the field of GOP candidates to succeed him appears to be wide open, according to a survey by a Montgomery-based public affairs company. |
| Feb 9 | Minnesota Bill for Earlier Primary Advances Bills are pending in both houses of the Minnesota legislature to move the primary from September 14 to August 10. They are SF 2251, by Senator Terri Bonoff (DFL-Minnetonka), and HB 2552, by Representative Steve Simon (DFL-St. Louis Park). On Februar.. |
| Feb 9 | Hickenlooper Takes Lead in Colorado John Hickenlooper (D) leads Scott McInnis (R) by four points in the Colorado race for governor, 49% to 45%, according to a new Rasmussen poll . Last month\'s poll found McInnis leading by three points. Prospects for Democratic retention of the governo.. |
| Feb 9 | Causey Enters Race For Berry\'s Seat Chad Causey, the former chief of staff of retiring Rep. Marion Berry (D), announced Tuesday that he will run to succeed his old boss in Arkansas\' 1st district. It\'s a swing seat -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won it by 21 points in 2008, so look for .. |
| Feb 9 | Poll Suggests Greens Leading in One British Parliamentary District Ballot Access News : This newspaper story from Great Britain says a neutral poll suggests that the Green Party will win its first seat in the British Parliament. Thanks to Green Party Watch for the link. Britain will hold a general election sometime.. |
| Feb 9 | Senate Expected to Reject Obama\'s Labor Board Nominee Craig Becker, a former union lawyer who President Obama nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board, is not expected to get the 60 votes needed to break a Republican-led filibuster, a senior Senate Democratic leadership aide told Fox .. |
| Feb 9 | Stimulus Foes Seek Money for Projects The Washington Times reports that \"more than a dozen Republican lawmakers, while denouncing the stimulus to the media and their constituents, privately sent letters to just one of the federal government\'s many agencies seeking stimulus money for home.. |
| Feb 9 | Malik Rahim tackles Superbowl From Democracy Now!, by way of On The Wilder Side DAVE ZIRIN: I was speaking to [former Green Party Congressional candidate] Malik Rahim, who I know you’ve had on your show before, a former Black Panther Party member, someone who has been a communit.. |
| Feb 9 | New Mexico Secretary of State Tells Legislature She Has Insufficient F.. The New Mexico Independent newspaper of February 9 has this story, which says that New Mexico\'s Secretary of State Mary Herrera has told the legislature that her budget is over $1,000,000 short of having enough money to pay for the 2010 primary and .. |
| Feb 9 | Obama Wants More Bipartisan Meetings President Obama convened a meeting with House and Senate leaders of both parties today, he has invited lawmakers of both parties to a health care summit at the White House Feb. 25, and this morning he said he wants such meetings to be a regular thing.. |
| Feb 9 | Parties of snow: The Hill\'s lost week Health care, nominees and jobs bill hang in balance. |
| Feb 9 | Causey declares for boss\'s seat Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry\'s chief of staff, Chad Causey, announced Tuesday that he\'s running for the seat his boss plans to vacate after seven terms in office. |
| Feb 9 | Blue-state primaries keep parties waiting Democratic-leaning states hold their primary elections an average of five weeks later than Republican-leaning states, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota\'s Eric Ostermeier. |
| Feb 9 | Vermont Bill for Disaggregated Fusion Vermont already permits two parties to jointly nominate the same candidate. However, in Vermont, when a candidate is the nominee of two different parties, he or she is only listed on the ballot in one place, so a voter who votes for that fusion nomi.. |
| Feb 9 | It All Depends on the Meaning of Party Identification By Stuart Rothenberg I’ll admit it. I like numbers. Whether the number is a WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) when evaluating a baseball pitcher, a price-to-earnings ratio when evaluating a stock or a job approval when considering an incumben.. |
| Feb 9 | AL GOV: Byrne Leads Wide-Open GOP Field Ex-state Community College chancellor Bradley Byrne (R) begins his race to replace Gov. Bob Riley (R) with a slim lead over the GOP field, but with nearly half of all primary voters undecided, it\'s anybody\'s contest, a new survey shows. The poll, co.. |
| Feb 9 | Ala. poll: Huck is 2012 frontrunner He leads his nearest GOP competitor by 10 percent, according to a new poll of Alabama Republicans. |
| Feb 9 | McAuliffe Insists Investment Not About Politics According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch , Terry McAuliffe (D) is seeking to buy a paper factory in Virginia but he says the proposal \"is not tied to a possible repeat bid for governor in 2013; that he is only doing as a private investor what he emph.. |
| Feb 9 | \'Miss Me Yet?\' Bush Billboard Leaves Minnesotans Puzzled A billboard featuring a picture of former President George W. Bush and the tagline \'Miss Me Yet?\' left residents of Minnesota wondering what it meant and who paid to have it erected. |
| Feb 9 | Obama Pushing For Deficit Commission Republican and Democratic senators alike have rejected the idea of a bipartisan deficit commission (even though some of them formerly supported it), but President Obama says he will push for consensus on the idea. \"Another area where I hope we can fi.. |
| Feb 9 | Republicans Unlikely To Pull Out Of Health Summit, GOPers Say After talking to a bunch of senior Republican aides and advisers on background, I can report that the chatter in GOP circles is that it\'s unlikely that Republicans will pull out of the health care summit, despite GOP leadership hints to the contrary.. |
| Feb 9 | What\'s the Deal with The Ryan Budget? We\'ve been reporting and writing a lot about Rep. Paul Ryan\'s (R-WI) \"shadow budget\" over the last week. And I wanted to take a moment to explain some of the reasons why. As I\'ve noted before, Ryan is the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee.. |
| Feb 9 | Lowden Runs Second Ad Former Nevada state Sen. Sue Lowden\'s (R) second ad looks a lot like her first . It\'s another biographical spot, starting with black and white photos of her ancestors and parents and then photos of her in various professional roles. Lowden narrates .. |
| Feb 9 | Dicks Hopeful For \"Powerful Position\" Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) is making phone calls to fellow members of the House Appropriations Committee to line up the necessary votes to take over a defense panel left vacant by the passing of Rep. John Murtha (D-PA). Dicks and Murtha joined the defen.. |
| Feb 9 | Boehner spox calls out Gibbs Boehner spox calls out Gibbs. |
| Feb 9 | Obama Hopeful Bipartisan Cooperation Can Spur Job Growth President Obama says he thinks Republicans and Democrats can work together to spur job growth even though the two parties disagree on many issues. |
| Feb 9 | On Using Satire In a very funny clip, Stephen Colbert looks at the difference between Rahm Emanuel and Rush Limbaugh using the word \"retard\" and teaches Sarah Palin a lesson about satire. |
| Feb 9 | Barring delays, Senate set for Tuesday votes The Senate is still scheduled to start votes at 5 p.m. Tuesday, but staffers say the weather could change that. Read more... |
| Feb 9 | Murtha\'s Death Turns Seat Into Likely Battleground Within hours of Rep. John Murtha\'s death, political forecasters were upping the odds for a Republican takeover in his western Pennsylvania District 12. |
| Feb 9 | Toles, today Funny. But sad too. |
| Feb 9 | Texas Race Could Be Headed to a Runoff A new Public Policy Polling survey finds the Republican primary for Texas governor on a path to a runoff. Surprisingly, however, the runoff could be between Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Debra Medina (R), leaving Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) as the odd-wo.. |
| Feb 9 | How And Why The Senate Won\'t Change Talk has percolated over the past few weeks of reforming Senate rules--finding some way to get around the 60-vote cloture requirement, and possibly to do away with \"holds\"--as Democrats have publicly lamented their inability to accomplish the big ite.. |