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Political robocalls — automated phone messages from candidates or political organizations — are exempt from the national “do not call” registry that the Federal Trade Commission and Congress established six years ago (PL 108-10).
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The once-a-decade process for redrawing the map of the House of Representatives has two distinct parts with similar-sounding, multisyllabic names. Redistricting, the drawing of the lines within each state, is the second part. Reapportionment, deciding how many House seats each state will have, ...
Congress
With the midterm election now less than a year away, Washington is becoming predictably fixated on how voters will next alter the partisan makeup of Congress. But focusing entirely on the hottest contests for the House and Senate illuminates only part of the story, because those outcomes will ...
Congress
Embattled Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on Monday rejected calls for his resignation based on an extramarital affair with a former aide, saying to do so would take the focus off Republican efforts to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Congress
John Ensign
Harry Reid
An Obama administration tax-policy task force is delaying its report until after the holiday season, the White House has announced.
White House
Federal Reserve
Individuals who purchase health coverage through an “exchange” in the Senate Democrats’ health care bill would pay higher premiums than they would under current law for their plans, but new subsidies would offset the increased costs for more than half those people, according to a new analysis.
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In this winter of Washington’s discontent, there may be no more acute symbol of the public’s anger at its economic circumstances — and no more obvious target of lawmakers’ indulgence in that unhappiness — than the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
White House
TARP
Health care overhaul and the jobs picture — and how each could affect the 2010 midterm elections — prompted a little sparring Sunday between two ex-governors who both ran for president.
Congress
Health care
The Republican National Committee has introduced a list of 10 principles designed to keep candidates aligned with party ideals and while one former GOP leader insisted Sunday it “is not a litmus test,” the concept does raise a question about 2010 midterm election strategy.
White House
Republican National Committee
Filmmaker Jeff Reichert is writer and director of an upcoming documentary about redistricting. That’s something you don’t hear every day.
World
Former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis will formally endorse Rep. Michael E. Capuano in the Democratic primary for the Senate special election Sunday at an event in Brookline, Mass.
Congress
Michael Dukakis
Michael E. Capuano
Alexi Giannoulias, the Democratic state treasurer of Illinois, was 4 years old when GOP Rep. Michael N. Castle was elected lieutenant governor of Delaware. But come 2011 the two men could serve together in the Senate.
Congress
Marco Rubio
When liberal Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky met last week with about 50 like-minded women in a Chicago home in the posh suburb of Highland Park, she quickly found herself explaining what’s become the most contentious legislative trade-off Nancy Pelosi has made in her three years as Speaker of ...
Congress
Nancy Pelosi
In the color-coded spectrum of modern-day politics, Americans for Democratic Action is, naturally, a deep blue.
Congress
Joe Wilson
President Obama may be heading to Copenhagen next month for the United Nations’ global climate change summit, but Democratic senators tasked with moving health care overhaul legislation will likely stay behind to pass a bill by year’s end.
Congress
Health care
When President Obama announced plans to give a speech to the nation’s schoolchildren in September, it set off a frenzy among conservative commentators who deemed it, in the words of Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer, an attempt to “indoctrinate America’s children to his socialist agenda.”
