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GOP Finesses Line of Attack

Barely six months ago, Senate Republican leaders held a well-choreographed press conference decrying the Democratic majority’s 2007 legislative record and inability to deliver on change.

Odds Are Even for Porter Re-election

in Nevada have made much of their surge in voter registration numbers, which has turned a few-thousand-voter registration deficit two years ago into a lead of nearly 41,000 enrolled voters statewide today

An Unusual Path to the Hill

Murphy’s book “Taking The Hill,” which hits bookstores today, follows his path to Congress, from his childhood in Philadelphia to a stint teaching law at West Point to his service in the sweltering

Spy Bill Knots Up Senate

. … We’re doing nothing today. Can’t we at least on [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] have some amendments offered?”

Mukasey, Senators Brace for Round 2

Durbin was referring to Alberto Gonzales, who was knocked from power last year after being accused of misleading Congress and bungling the firing of nine federal prosecutors in 2006.

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Jet?

Any Member of Congress can get a lobbyist to throw down some dough for a U2 or Bono fundraiser, but it takes a certain baby-faced Florida Republican with the courage to take on the Spice Girls. Rep.

Emanuel Strafes Bush Record

“By any measure, America is worse off today, and over the last seven years, than was the country that George Bush inherited and ran for in November of 2000.”

Stimulus on Tight Schedule

“We need to do something that’s simple, something everyone can understand,” Hoyer said of the rebate proposals in a Tuesday press conference.

Fast Track Set For Stimulus

Quickly means exactly that — quickly,” Hoyer said at a press conference. “I’m hopeful within the next, certainly, 30 days, to adopt a program that would be a stimulus to our economy.”

Fighting for D.C.’s Identity

hometown to 600,000 residents,” Norton said during a press conference at the National Capitol Station Post Office near Union Station.

Patching Up the AMT — In Time to Rev Up the IRS

Beyond the speed with which the IRS should be able to move once Congress finally clears this year’s AMT patch — possibly today or Thursday — the agency is under no legal restrictions to wait until

GOP Plans a ‘Butcher Shop’ to Chop Earmarks

With House Democratic leaders poised to introduce and pass a massive appropriations bill today covering funding for nearly every federal agency, Republican staffers and outside interest groups prepared

Hoyer Dreaming of Adjournment Next Week

“Clearly we are in the last two weeks of the Congress,” Hoyer said at his weekly press conference Wednesday. “I say that with a smile because there are some of you who do not believe that.”

Divisions Grow Over Approps

Republicans expected to successfully use Senate rules to strip out the military construction and Veterans Affairs spending bill away from the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education bill as soon as today

Obey Predicts Late December Finish

“I personally would be surprised if we’re out before Dec. 22,” Obey said at a Monday luncheon at the National Press Club.

Conservatives Launch Caucus

Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) today will announce a new bicameral caucus aimed at returning fiscal restraint, ethics and national defense to the fore of the GOP’s philosophical and policy platforms.

SCHIP Vote Up Again

House Democrats will return a children’s health insurance bill to the floor today — exactly one week after failing to overturn a presidential veto of a similar bill — asserting that several “clarifications

A See-Through Revolving Door

Lobbyists who follow U.S. relations with Cuba are gearing up for a speech by President Bush today on his policy toward the island nation.