Two Minnesota congressmen -- Republican Erik Paulsen and Democrat Tim Walz -- are teaming up on Tuesday to call for repealing Minnesota's moratorium on new nuclear power plants.
Paulsen and Walz have scheduled a 9:30 a.m. press conference at the state Capitol to urge state lawmakers to include nukes as [...]
We haven't heard much from Ashwin Madia since he lost to Republican Erik Paulsen in the 3rd Congressional District last year.
But he showed up recently at St. Paul City Hall (hat tip to our friends over at City Hall Scoop).
Turns out a guy named Joe Pederson' [...]
Independence Party of Minnesota (IP) delegates at its recent state convention in Brooklyn Park voted to throw out the recent practice of candidate cross-endorsement.
That is, the IP will no longer endorse candidates that do not belong to the party — recent 6th District DFL congressional candidate El Tinklenberg was quick [...]
According to this morning’s Rasmussen polling, support for the Democrats’ health care plan is cratering. It isn’t likely to get more popular as more information is reported on. Here’s what Rasmussen’s latest polling shows:
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional [...]
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The rate of uninsured residents in Minnesota’s eight congressional districts is a good predictor of how U.S. House lawmakers voted on health care reform. But, according to data in a new report by the Urban Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, there’s one [...]
According to this morning's Rasmussen polling, support for the Democrats' health care plan is cratering. It isn't likely to get more popular as more information is reported on. Here's what Rasmussen's latest polling shows:
Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional [...]
The more people see of ObamaCare and the way Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have to force it through Congress, the less they like it. Rasmussen’s latest survey on the legislation shows support for the bill reaching its nadir, 38%, with an 18-point deficit from public opposition, which is [...]
From one of the smartest men ever to serve in government, here is Robert Reich's take on the state of the health care reform bills now being fought over in Congress. The entire article is well worth reading:
But even the House's shrunken and costly little public option is too [...]
While Republicans Erik Paulsen and Michele Bachmann are leading by a wide margin in the amount of funds raised overall by the Gopher State's U.S. House representatives and announced congressional candidates in the current election cycle, it is Bachmann's two DFL challengers, Maureen Reed and Tarryl Clark, [...]
On Friday, my friend Gary Gross called me about a hysterical interview he had seen on Neil Cavuto's program. Apparently someone from New Hampshire has launched a campaign for New Hampshire's "00" Congressional District, commenting just because we don't exist doesn't mean we don't deserve representation and "Even a'" [...]
Texas Congressman Ron Paul calls for an end to the war in Afghanistan.Ethnic Americans say they have a far better image of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), otherwise known as the $751 billion federal stimulus package Congress passed almost nine months ago, than do Whites.
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Grant Bosse is onto something. Let me go further than that. Grant Bosse is a genius. This video will explain why he’s a genius:
Here’s a transcript of the interview he did with FNC’s Brian Sullivan:
SULLIVAN: Your next guest has jsut announced his run for Congress from the phantom [...]
From Citizen's Council on Health Care:
ALERT - ObamaCare Debate Friday with Vote on Saturday
Call Tomorrow by 5:00 p.m. EST! (try Saturday too in case they answer)
DIRECT Phone and Fax Numbers for Congress
U.S. Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121 - Toll-free numbers
11/19/09 email from U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's office [...]
After viewing Bluestem Prairie’s coverage of Allen Quist’s announcement that he will be the GOP candidate for Congress against Tim Walz, I have one thing to say:
Sally Jo, you should know that Quist prefers “fisherman” to “angler.”
From a February 8, 1986 story in the [...]
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A new report by the National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC) finds that, despite the nation’s economic turmoil, Minnesota’s civic health is good — so much so that we’re among the country’s leaders in indicators like voter turnout, volunteerism and charitable giving. NCOC is chartered by Congress [...]
Roll Call columnist and American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Norm Ornstein will speak at the Humphrey Institute on Friday to review the Obama administration's wide-ranging policy initiatives and their progress in Congress as the political winds appears rady to shift.
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Norm Ornstein, Resident [...]
The retired professor and farmer said he decided to get back into politics because he is concerned [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Before making legislative history, Sen. Robert Byrd - on Wednesday he became the longest-serving member of Congress since 1789 - spent a lifetime mastering it.
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