By Mark Mix
Home day care providers would be forced into unions
When the new Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and 11 fewer tea party-backed House Republicans from the class of 2010 who sought a second term.
The 113th Congress won't be sworn in until January, but it's already making history on the religious-diversity front.
Democrats have their thumbs on Republican scales in Senate primaries in Missouri and Wisconsin this summer, hoping to improve their own chances of maintaining a majority in November. The idea isn't quite as far-fetched as it might sound.
Former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle is chasing surfers for their votes in Hawaii _ channel surfers.
Claire McCaskill of Missouri says that's because women "by nature are less confrontational," and Mazie Hirono, newly arrived from Hawaii, says it's because women are "problem-solvers."
