Congressman Michael Burgess (R, Lewisville) recently announced on his campaign website that he had introduced H.R. 4315 - the United States War Bonds Act of 2009. The act would authorize the Treasury Secretary to borrow money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan directly from [...] 
DEMOCRAT SWITCHES TO REPUBLICANTravis County Democratic Party Chair Andy Brown filed for re-election earlier today. Brown, who was elected chairman in March 2008, announced an impressive list of supporters that includes practically every Democratic elected official within the county.
Brown's supporters include:
Congressman Lloyd Doggett; State Senator Kirk Watson; [...]From an e-mail I just received:
"In February, after receiving strong encouragement from friends and supporters throughout Texas to consider running for United States Congress, we formed an Exploratory Committee to evaluate the race.My wife, Carla, and I have been humbled by the broad and deep" [...]
It would have been unprecedented had the president not described the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit as "unprecedented," that being the most overworked [...]
Is there anything that could bring our deeply divided Congress together in an act of overwhelming bipartisanship? Is there any issue that could unite more than 400 members of the House of Representatives, Democrats and Republicans, in common cause? Is it even possible to have broad [...]
Stands in Strong Support of Israel
Republican for Governor, fmr. Congressman John Kasich, has been campaigning on a platform of abolishing the state income tax. Kasich believes the move would help spur Ohio's weak double-digit unemployment plagued economy. The incumbent Democrat Governor disagrees. Ben Nelson must have felt like a punching bag.
The Democrat was the center of attention at a rally in downtown Omaha on Sunday — and much of the attention was unfavorable, as opponents of the health care legislation in Congress expressed outrage with his decision to [...]
From Eric Dondero:
News that gets my goat..Congress worked on finishing its last business, with the Senate likely to vote on their health bill before leaving for Christmas vacation. Both the House and the Senate passed extensions of unemployment benefits and the COBRA health subsidy. The Senate also passed a defense spending bill which most [...]
For readers who haven't attended a large scientific meeting, this is an attempt to capture the scene.From the White House weblog:
The President looks back to the bipartisan Patient’s Bill of Rights, a bill that was defeated in Congress at the hands of special interests and their supporters, and notes that health insurance reform covers the same ground and much more in terms of giving the consumers [...]
The waiting is finally over for some of the District of Columbia's most ambitious school children and their parents. Democrats in Congress voted to kill the District's Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides 1,700 disadvantaged kids with vouchers worth up to $7,500 per year to attend a [...]
Florida Rep. wants Obama's AG Holder to investigate Tea Party activistWhen your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the [...]
Beneath the debate over health care there is one fact that should not be lost on anyone. The most powerful institution in America is not the White House. It is not Congress. It is the insurance industry, which is having its way in Washington. As usual.
When the [...]
To challenge Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's efforts to fight Democratic health care plans, Gov. Rick Perry is now tweaking the senator for not filibustering - of all things - a defense spending bill.
The congressional session is nearly [...]
Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats this week to claim Congress was on the "precipice" of something historic. Believe him. The president is demanding his party unilaterally enact one of the most unpopular and complex pieces of social legislation in history. In [...]
