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8:23 AM, Aug 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENU.S. Senator John McCain has endorsed Ben Quayle over David Schweikert in the Republican primary for Arizona's Sixth Congressional District. McCain endorsed Quayle, a House freshman and the son of former vice president Dan Quayle, in a press conference Wednesday in Phoenix. Dan Nowicki of the Arizona Republic reports:
Read more... 4:41 PM, Aug 13, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENDebbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, has just sent out a fundraising letter criticizing her House colleague Paul Ryan, saying a Vice President Ryan would be a "nightmare" and that "we cannot afford to let this man be a heartbeat away from the presidency." Read the email below:
Read more... West calls ad 'classless.'5:02 PM, Aug 9, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENA Florida super PAC affiliated with a Democratic congressional candidate has a new ad criticizing Florida Republican Allen West. The ad depicts West, a freshman House member, as a boxer who "socked it to seniors" and "whacked women." The animated West punches an elderly woman, a younger woman, and a family. Watch the ad below, along with a statement about the ad from West himself:
Read more... 1:28 PM, Jul 25, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENRepublican congressman Don Young of Alaska has crossed the aisle to endorse Democrat Mazie Hirono in the U.S. Senate race in Hawaii. "But here's what's important, Hawaii," Young says, sitting next to Hirono. "If you're looking for a United States senator who doesn't just talk about bipartisanship but actually knows how to work with both Republicans and Democrats to get things done, Mazie Hirono will be that senator." Watch the ad below:
Read more... 10:22 AM, Jul 25, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENHouse minority whip Steny Hoyer, speaking with reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, said Democrats in Congress "didn't have the votes" in 2009 or 2010 to raise taxes, even though the party had a majority in both the Senate and the House and Barack Obama was president.
Read more... "Devastating mpact on our national security."2:31 PM, Jul 18, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe House of Representatives voted 414-2 Wednesday to pass the Sequestration Transparency Act, a bill requiring President Barack Obama to release to the public a plan to implement the forthcoming automatic budget cuts, including drastic cuts to the Department of Defense.
Read more... 7:54 AM, Jul 10, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe New York Times ran the following headline: "Cracks Appear in Republican Unity on Health Law Repeal." The accompanying piece quoted "cautious" Republican campaign consultants wary of restarting the Obamacare debate, just as House Republicans plan to hold a vote to repeal the unpopular law on Wednesday. But despite supposed dampened enthusiasm among some establishment types, it's likely every House Republican will vote for repeal.
Read more... 11:12 AM, Jul 9, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENTomorrow, the House of Representatives is expected to hold another vote to repeal Obamacare, and the American Action Network is encouraging voters to tell House Democrats in potential swing districts to support repeal.
Read more... 10:45 AM, Jul 2, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENArkansas Democrat Gene Jeffress, who is running for Congress in Arkansas's Fourth District, offered a strange story about health care reform at a recent campaign stop. The video, picked up by Caleb Howe at RedState, contains some offensive language from Jeffress, who suggests that Republican opposition to universal health care is racist. Watch it below:
Read more... 10:49 PM, Jun 26, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENDemocrats in New York's Eighth Congressional District are projected to overwhelmingly choose Hakeem Jeffries over controversial city councilman Charles Barron in Tuesday's primary. So far, Jeffries has won 74 percent of the vote with 49 percent of precincts reporting, while Barron has received support from only 26 percent.
Read more... 11:17 AM, Jun 22, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) has a new ad running on New York television documenting a series of radical, racist, and anti-Israel statements from Democratic congressional candidate Charles Barron of New York's Eighth District. Watch the ad below:
Read more... 5:17 PM, Jun 21, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENAnti-Israel advocate and professor Norman Finkelstein posted on his personal blog that there were "four reasons" to support Democratic congressional candidate Charles Barron in next Tuesday's primary for New York's Eighth Congressional District: "Ed Koch, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), City Councilman David Greenfield and state Assemblyman Dov Hikind."
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