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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann urged her supporters to fight health care reform by calling Congress “every day, when you wake up in the morning and comb your hair and take your vitamins.”
Democrats are purposely pushing health care legislation at holiday time, Bachmann charged during a [...]
Congress’ first Muslim, DFLer Keith Ellison, has drawn an independent challenger with a lot to say — particularly about Islam.
Lynne Torgerson charts her own course, telling the Minnesota Independent in an interview that she considers herself almost “apolitical.”
The Minneapolis criminal-defense attorney unsuccessfully sought election as [...]
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) thinks it can convince 17 Democrats — including Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson — to retire before next year’s election. The “Dem Retirement Assault List” targets 14 seats in districts that voted for Sen. John McCain in the 2008 election, [...]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning why it is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is imprisoning people coming to the United States seeking asylum from persecution abroad.
“A 2005 congressionally authorized bipartisan commission found [...]
Once again, the Obama administration reveals either incompetence or dishonesty in its economic policies this week. On Monday, when Barack Obama announced an effort to push a jobs package (but don’t call it “stimulus”!) through Congress, he said that he would end the controversial TARP program to fund it:
President [...]
Astronomy teaches that a star will, in its death throes, greatly expand itself in a vain attempt at survival before finally collapsing of its own weight and destroying itself. For some reason, that process seems to be popular in Congress as entitlement reform. The latest trial balloon floated out [...]
President Obama announced his plans for handling the Afghan War on national television last week. As a result of that, another front has opened up....
A civil war is breaking out within the left of the Democratic Party pitting the Congressional Black Caucus against the first African-American president.
The battle began [...]
Soaring population in central Minnesota and southern metropolitan regions to require eventual carving up of 6th and 2nd Congressional Districts after 2010
Although the Gopher State's population is continuing to grow, there were concerns as late as last year that Minnesota might lose one of its eight seats' [...]
Today, several liberal blogs are posting that former State Representative Shelly Madore is going to run for US Congress against Congressman John Kline. Here is a sample of some of the old MDE Posts on Madore:
WHAT DID REPRESENTATIVE MADORE MEAN?by Michael Brodkorb – October 24, 2008
A dedicated reader of Minnesota [...]
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that up to 10 million people could lose their employer-based insurance coverage under the Senate's health care reform bill.
The estimate was provided after Republicans pressed the CBO for details on employer coverage, [...]
President Obama and congressional Democrats haven’t even announced their latest job creation plans, but already they’re stirring controversy with an idea on how to pay for it - by tapping the Treasury’s so-called TARP funds.
[...]The post’s title says it all. According to Open Congress, Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voted to cut Medicare’s home care budget by 14.5 percent:
By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican effort to block cutbacks in payments to home [...]
The post's title says it all. According to Open Congress, Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voted to cut Medicare's home care budget by 14.5 percent:
By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican effort to block cutbacks in payments to home [...]
St. Paul- At a Capitol rally today, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Senator Amy Koch, Representative Paul Kohls, Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton, Deputy Chairman Michael Brodkorb and energized grassroots activists rallied [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a today case examining the extent to which Congress can create an independent watchdog agency insulated from direct presidential control and political accountability.
[...]Michele Bachmann speaks to national TV audiences an average of once every nine days, but the Minnesota congresswoman makes extra-sure that voters in her district hear from her directly: She sent more than 1 million email messages or print mailings to them last [...]
