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  • July 2008

    • Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jul 15, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      Obama Campaign Insular, Arrogant, Hill Dems Complain

      Some Congressional Democrats say they're not feeling the love from Barack Obama's campaign, Politico reports, with the candidate inattentive to broader election strategy and his camp uncommunicative on the day-to-day message blitz. "They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” one senior staffer said “They are kind of insufferable at this point.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Congress  • Democrats  • campaign fundraising  • Nancy Pelosi  • Harry Reid  • campaign  • congressional Democrats  • campaign staff

  • June 2008

    • Countrywide 'Bailout' Is Dem Chicanery

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 18, 08 1:33 PM CDT

      Countrywide 'Bailout' Is Dem Chicanery

      Congressional Dems are selling their $300 billion bill granting new taxpayer loan guarantees as a boon to homeowners, but Dick Armey sees more cynical motives in the “bailout” legislation. The former House majority leader writes in the Journal , pegging the recent revelations of sweetheart Countrywide loans for top (Dem) “banking players” to the active legislation, charging that “it’s all too clear who is being rescued.” More »

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      Fannie Mae  • Freddie Mac  • Countrywide Financial  • congressional Democrats  • bailout  • Dick Armey

    • GOP Hesitates on Call for Mortgage Probe

      newser  |  Politico  |  Jun 17, 08 5:11 PM CDT

      GOP Hesitates on Call for Mortgage Probe

      GOP lawmakers are leery of investigating mortgage deals Countrywide may have arranged for members of Congress, even though a fellow Republican is leading the charge, Politico reports. More Democratic ties to the troubled lender would give the GOP ammo in a cycle seemingly stacked against it—but the people who must pull the trigger are apprehensive about “opening Pandora’s box,” said one aide. More »

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      Democrats  • Republicans  • mortgage  • Countrywide Financial  • congressional Democrats  • Chris Dodd  • Kent Conrad

  • May 2008

    • Congress to Probe 'Misleading' Drug Ads

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 8, 08 3:10 AM CDT

      Congress to Probe 'Misleading' Drug Ads

      A congressional panel will examine three ad campaigns as part of a move to tighten regulations on drug companies' direct-to-consumer marketing, the Wall Street Journal reports. The committee will focus on ads for cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Lipitor, and anemia drug Procrit, which has been promoted as an anti-fatigue drug despite FDA demands not to do so. More »

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      drugs  • advertising  • Merck  • drug companies  • congressional Democrats  • Pfizer  • Johnson and Johnson  • Lipitor  • Schering Plough  • Vytorin  • Bart Stupak

  • April 2008
  • March 2008

    • Saddam Paid for Lawmakers' Trip to Iraq

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 26, 08 8:45 PM CDT

      Saddam Paid for Lawmakers' Trip to Iraq

      Saddam Hussein secretly paid for a trip made by three congressmen to Iraq in 2002  just ahead of the US invasion, the AP reports. The congressmen, all of whom opposed the war, did not know Saddam financed the trip because he funneled the money through a nonprofit group in Michigan. Federal prosecutors in Detroit today charged a member of that group with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Saddam Hussein  • congressional Democrats  • Jim McDermott

    • Kucinich Fights Off Challenge for His Seat

      newser  |  Cleveland Plain Dealer  |  Mar 5, 08 5:54 AM CST

      Kucinich Fights Off Challenge for His Seat

      Supporters of Dennis Kucinich had reason to worry about last night's primary for the congressional seat he's held for 12 years: with the Democratic gadfly away on the presidential campaign trail for so long, four rivals had built up a formidable challenge. But Kucinich weathered the onslaught to win the nomination, the Plain Dealer reports. More »

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      Ohio  • Dennis Kucinich  • congressional Democrats  • congressional seat

  • December 2007
  • November 2007

    • Pentagon, Congress Play Chicken Over Iraq Funds

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 21, 07 9:00 AM CST

      Pentagon, Congress Play Chicken Over Iraq Funds

      The Pentagon is threatening as many as 200,000 civilian layoffs by Christmas if war funding isn't approved by Congress, but Dems say there will be no funding until Bush sets withdrawal dates for Iraq. "Both sides are playing a big game of chicken here," a Congressional budget expert told the Washington Post. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Pentagon  • congressional Democrats

    • Dems: Hidden Costs Double Price of War

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 13, 07 12:00 PM CST

      Dems: Hidden Costs Double Price of War

      The costs of waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan is actually $1.5 trillion, Democrats say in a report out today—far above the $802 billion spent or appropriated by Congress. Citing "hidden costs" such as higher oil prices, veterans' care, and interest on war debt, the report estimates the average family of four has spent $20,000 so far, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Afghanistan  • Congress  • Iraq veterans  • Charles Schumer  • congressional Democrats  • war cost

    • House OKs Trade Deal With Peru

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Nov 8, 07 4:27 PM CST

      House OKs Trade Deal With Peru

      Despite sharp criticism from labor leaders, environmentalists, and free-trade opponents, roughly half of House Democrats joined nearly all Republicans to pass a trade-liberalization agreement with Peru. Speaker Nancy Pelosi came out in favor of the deal, defying expectations that President Bush would find no friends for his trade policy in the current Congress, the New York Times reports. The Senate is expected to pass it, too. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Peru  • congressional Democrats  • free trade  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi  • Globalization

    • House Overrides Bush's Veto of Water Bill

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 6, 07 9:13 PM CST

      House Overrides Bush's Veto of Water Bill

      The House overrode a presidential veto tonight for the first time in the Bush administration, with 138 Republicans crossing party lines to support a $23 billion water-resources bill. The 361-54 vote was far more than the two-thirds needed to override, reflecting the popularity on both sides of the aisle of legislation loaded with pet projects, the Washington Post reports. The Senate is likely to pass its own override, possibly as soon as today. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • Republicans  • House of Representatives  • congressional Democrats  • veto  • Steny Hoyer  • presidential veto  • veto override

  • October 2007

    • Dems Skewer Rice Over Iraq Foul-ups

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Oct 25, 07 6:35 PM CDT

      Dems Skewer Rice Over Iraq Foul-ups

      House Democrats today grilled Condoleezza Rice over alleged State Department bungling in Iraq, from failure to supervise private security contractors like Blackwater to ignoring corruption in the new Iraqi government to sloppy oversight of the new US embassy in Baghdad. Usually composed, Rice showed signs of frustration today, as Dems hammered her—and by extension, the administration—with questions, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • State Department  • Blackwater  • Henry Waxman  • congressional Democrats

    • Dems Nostalgic for Reagan Era

      newser  |  Politico  |  Oct 6, 07 11:57 AM CDT

      Dems Nostalgic for Reagan Era

      As President Bush's popularity among congressional Democrats plummets amid a storm of threats and vetoes, some have grown nostalgic for a bygone era—the Reagan era. "I never thought I'd say this, but I long for the pragmatism of Ronald Reagan," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel. Aided by a healthy dose of relativism, the Gipper is making a comeback, Politico writes. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Ronald Reagan  • congressional Democrats

  • September 2007

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