The Week Ahead: Partisan ammunition for election ads
Seventeen legislative days remain before Election Day, only four are scheduled before Congress' August recess.
View ArticleDiversity in action: Straight white men are a minority among House Democrats
For the first time in history, there will be a minority of straight white men in the House Democratic caucus.
View ArticleConservatives — at least a few — declare war on the Republican Party
The political chasm is widening. A line has been drawn between two different ideologies, but not between Republicans and Democrats. This gap is between the Republicans and conservatives. “I think the...
View ArticleCornyn blames GOP Senate losses on polling, primary wins of weak candidates
Despite leading the GOP to a net loss of two seats in last week’s election, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn earned himself a promotion and is poised to take on the roll of...
View ArticleTed Cruz to be closing speaker at CPAC conference packed with conservative stars
Freshman senator Ted Cruz has created buzz throughout the halls of Capitol Hill ever since the 113th Congress convened on Jan. 3. And the conservative movement has taken notice. The American...
View ArticleTexans use social media to jab at Washington with #SequesterMovieLines
The big day is here. As the sequester buzzer dings, the President and Congressional leaders are making one last-minute effort to muster up a deal at the White House. Though billions of dollars among...
View ArticleSequester Day roundup: How budget cuts will affect Texas — and you
The sequester is finally here. After weeks of debate among Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, the deadline to reach a deal on the across-the-board budget cuts has arrived and...
View ArticleRand Paul admits he considered using a catheter during filibuster
When nature calls, even a United States senator can’t talk his way out of it. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul concluded his filibuster to halt the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director just under the...
View ArticleTexas Democratic chair tells Republicans: ‘Let’s start acting like adults’
Until Republicans “start acting like adults” to solve the budget crisis, Texas families will continue to suffer, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said in a Friday conference call...
View ArticleCruz laments that so many of his GOP Senate colleagues are ‘a bunch of squishes’
Dale Carnegie he’s not. Andrew Carnegie, perhaps. Sen. Ted Cruz called his Senate Republican colleagues “‘squishes” over their response to his adamant opposition to gun legislation. Cruz, who was a...
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