In the 5-way 11th CD Republican primary, there's little real difference between candidates' views on the issues, but there's been a growing amount of push and pull over experience, campaign finances and national attention. The winner of the February 2 GOP primary in the 11th CD will take on freshman Democrat Debbie Halvorson' [...]
With the 2010 election getting closer, Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson is trying to play both sides on the plan to sell Thomson prison to the feds in order to house terrorists from Gitmo. She told the Herald-Review that she "needs more information before she" [...]
Speaking Wednesday at the Abraham Lincoln National Military Cemetery, Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson seemed to compare the sacrifice of American soldiers to "rent". As quoted in the Morris Daily Herald, Halvorson said of the sacrifices made, "It's the rent we pay for the lives" [...]
From the NRCC --
The federal deficit has reached a monumental high of $1.4 trillion under Democrats’ watch and thanks to their recent spending sprees it could swell to $9 trillion over the next decade. Rather than taking heed and following the necessary steps to reduce the ballooned deficit, Speaker [...]
Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady issued the following statement today on the passage of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ government-run health care experiment:
"Today is a disappointing day for Illinoisans as Nancy Pelosi, Melissa Bean, Debbie Halvorson and Bill Foster ignored the concerns of voters and rammed a trillion" [...]
from the Kinzinger for Congress campaign
BOURBONNAIS, IL – Despite a promise to hold an in-person town hall forum before the final health care vote, Debbie Halvorson chose to ignore her constituents today by voting for Nancy Pelosi’s 2,000 pages, $1 trillion dollar health care bill. HB [...]
Smart Girl Politics is featuring a list from Congressman Eric Cantor of the 69 U.S. Reps who reportedly remain "undecided" on the Pelosi health care plan. Three of those listed are from Illinois: Jerry Costello, Bill Lipinski and Debbie Halvorson.
Halvorson must be telling associates something different that she told [...]
