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Virginia Governor's Race Overshadowed by Scandal
April 30, 2013 Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli are locked in a tight race in the off-year gubernatorial contest to succeed Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell in Virginia. The campaign is expected to be filled with negative attacks, as McAuliffe and Cuccinelli jab each other over their close, personal connections with a ...
Why Isn't Joe Biden Giving Back Some of His Salary?
April 5, 2013 President Obama did it. So did Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Attorney General Eric Holder. Some members of Congress have offered to do it, too. But, setting up an awkward dynamic in the White House, there’s one high-profile Cabinet member who ...
Analysis: Obama's Political Gamble on Sequestration
February 28, 2013 President Obama stood in front of a giant five-blade propeller at a Newport News, Va., shipbuilding plant on Tuesday, warning the public about the dire “meat-cleaver approach” that automatic budget cuts will have on the economy. It was the third time this month the president took his case on sequestration ...
Deficit Reduction Among Top Priorities for Political Insiders
February 8, 2013 On a National Journal poll of political insiders, deficit reduction ranked among the top priorities for Democrats, tying with tax reform in popularity. Republicans rated it as even more pressing. What two issues should be the top priorities for your party this year? DEMOCRATS (107 VOTES) Deficit reduction: 21% Energy: ...
New Poll Shows Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio More Popular Than Obama
February 8, 2013 President Barack Obama's second term just got under way, but it's outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is far more popular, according to a new Quinnipiac poll testing politicians' favorability ratings. Need evidence that House Republicans are unpopular? House Speaker John Boehner sits at the bottom of the list, ...
Utah conservative: GOP should 'end slavery from the federal government'
January 28, 2013 Mia Love, the Republican mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah, wowed conservatives in Tampa at the Republican National Convention this summer. After a failed fall campaign that resulted in losing a congressional race to Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, she's again making an appeal to conservatives. "I will stay -- I don't ...
Chris Christie Reality Check
January 7, 2013 Last week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie very publicly scolded House Speaker John Boehner for not bringing superstorm Sandy relief legislation to the floor for a vote. Christie, who aggressively pushed for spending cuts and pension reforms during his first year in office, unambiguously criticized his GOP colleagues for not ...
How Boehner's Plan B vote imploded
December 20, 2012 Rep. Charlie Bass, R-N.H., overcoat in hand, was the canary in the coal mine. He jetted out of the Capitol basement room where the House Republican Conference holed up Thursday night, walked by a handful of journalists and delivered in a flash the news that House Speaker John Boehner's Plan ...
Status update on the Obama-Boehner standoff
December 11, 2012 President Obama spent Monday stumping in Michigan for higher taxes for the wealthy, and Republicans in Congress lamented there was still no "balanced approach" on offer from the White House. That was Monday. Our National Journal Daily colleagues explain what that means for the fiscal cliff debate Tuesday. Here's Billy ...
Fiscal cliff buzz muffles medical device industry message
November 16, 2012
FROM NEXTGOV
Several dozen medical device industry execs swarmed the Hill on Thursday, but the buzz over the fiscal cliff might have drowned out their message. The CEOs' pitch to lawmakers: The medical device tax that goes into effect in January is going to cripple the industry and they should repeal it. ...
