In growing numbers, once-confident Democrats now say President Obama could lose the November election.
They claim it's all part of the plan. But still. The Nixon Center, an institution founded by President Richard Nixon within his own presidential library just three months before he died in 1994, has dropped "Nixon" to become the more generic "Center for the National Interest."
The House has passed sweeping legislation that aims to make food safer in the wake of E. coli and salmonella outbreaks in peanuts, eggs and produce.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell has decided that the debate over global warming calls for a tax increase. Surprise, surprise!
It's that time again. Members of Congress were trying last week to wrap matters up before their monthlong recess. Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the other leaders of the 110th Congress had an unusually complex set of questions to answer as they face the usual end-of-summer dilemma: explain or complain?
There is no truth to the rumors that Democratic Reps. Fortney "Pete" Stark of California and John Dingell of Michigan secretly jumped ship and are helping Republicans recapture the majority in the House. But you would never know it based on their health-care agenda. The two liberal old bulls who face little-to-no personal electoral vulnerability seem determined to march their caucus back to minority status by forcing them to cast a highly unpopular vote to cut Medicare.
There is no truth to the rumors that Democratic Reps. Fortney "Pete" Stark of California and John Dingell of Michigan secretly jumped ship and are helping Republicans recapture the majority in the House. But you would never know it based on their health-care agenda. The two liberal old bulls who face little-to-no personal electoral vulnerability seem determined to march their caucus back to minority status by forcing them to cast a highly unpopular vote to cut Medicare.
Emboldened by public anxiety over global warming and dependence on Middle East oil, Senate Democrats last month pushed through a 40 percent increase in the corporate average fuel economy standard for cars and trucks as the centerpiece of their energy bill.
Emboldened by public anxiety over global warming and dependence on Middle East oil, Senate Democrats last month pushed through a 40 percent increase in the corporate average fuel economy standard for cars and trucks as the centerpiece of their energy bill.
