AARP of North Carolina issued a press release rapping the Senate for voting against allowing the importation of prescription drugs from abroad. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan both voted against allowing drug reimportation.
Rising prescription drug prices are a major problem for people of all ages, [...]
Cal Cunningham received a phone call this week from President Barack Obama, another indication that he is seen in Washington as the Democratic Party's strongest potential challenger to Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr.
Cunningham, a former state senator from Lexington, said he talked with Obama [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr is neck-and-neck with a generic Democrat in a new poll released by Public Policy Polling.
PPP asked likely North Carolina voters who they would pick between Burr, a Republican, and an unnamed Democrat. The poll found that 42 percent would pick Burr [...]
Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr leads potential Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall by eight percentage points, according to a new poll released today by the Civitas Institute.
Civitas' poll of 600 likely North Carolina voters was conducted Dec. 1-3, before former state Sen. Cal Cunningham entered the [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr will be one of the speakers Tuesday at a rally in the Capitol by opponents of the health care legislation being pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic Senate leadership.
Burr, a Republican, will join radio host Laura Ingraham, Sens. [...]
How exciting! Art Pope's daddy's money is now going to create the illusion of a grass roots uprising, with hundreds of Puppets joining Dallas (who is neither a dog nor a bus driver) Woodhouse on a road trip to Washington!
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Senator Richard Burr to speak at Code Red [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr does not plan to return his "blue slip" on U.S. attorney nominee Thomas Walker until the current investigations into two of the state’s most prominent Democrats are completed.
Burr informed President Barack Obama of his decision through the White House counsel’s office, Barb [...]
Two Florida senators have joined U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan in urging the Navy to fund a study on water contamination at the Marines’ Camp Lejeune.
The Navy has not committed to fully funding a 2010 work plan on the contamination by The Agency for Toxic [...]
As health care reform legislation makes it's way through the Senate, Dome will track votes by the state's Senators, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Kay Hagan.
ABORTION LIMITS: Limit insurance companies that are participating in a federal insurance exchange from covering abortions. The Senate voted to table, [...]
Sen. Burr is fighting hard to maintain Medicare overpayments to private insurance companies.
But amid the usual silliness there was an interesting claim on his website:
The additional benefits provided by Medicare Advantage are particularly important to some of our nation’s most vulnerable seniors — a higher portion of [...]
Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham launched his campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate on Monday with a Web video.
As Dome expected, it includes plenty of references to Cunningham's military service. Cunningham takes a few digs at Republican Sen. Richard Burr and notes that [...]
Ed Cone thinks Richard Burr is not as vulnerable as Liddy Dole was, and he's probably right. After all, Burr appears to actually know where North Carolina is, and has even been here a few times. That said, the senior Senator definitely has his work cut out. From where [...]
Cal Cunningham has reversed course from a month ago and has now decided that he is jumping into next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. Cunningham is a Democrat who will be vying for his party’s nomination to take on incumbent Republican Senator Richard Burr.
Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham, of Lexington, officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate this morning.
Cunningham faces two already-announced candidates for the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican. Both Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Durham lawyer [...]
A Washington-based campaign finance group has named U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, an "insurance puppet" for the political contributions he has taken from insurance companies.
The Public Campaign Action Fund has an ad on the website fivethirtyeight.com depicting the North Carolina Republican on puppet [...]
Today the nonpartisan group Public Campaign Action Fund, a watchdog organization that advocates for public financing of political campaigns, named Sen. Richard Burr as one of its top insurance puppets.
The group released its top four insurance company puppets this week. The list includes senators Mitch McConnell, Joe [...]
While Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan says she is unsure whether she'll hold up the confirmation of a new U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has no plans to hold up the process.
DURHAM — Democratic Senate candidate Kenneth Lewis criticized Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s position on health care legislation Thursday, saying he was part of the Washington establishment that had blocked efforts to make health care more affordable.
I’m not trying to defend Burr because his performance in the [...]
First, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham said no thanks. Now he’s back in the race for the Democratic nomination to challenge incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, reports the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. Could it be Cunningham’s gotten a Kay Hagan-style commitment from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee?
[...]Story here. Reasonable people agree that precautions should be taken to keep psychologically impaired individuals from buying guns. In the enduring debate over gun regulation, this has been one area of consensus. That's why it is difficult to fathom legislation proposed by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) that would make [...]
