by Jim Heath | Sep 28, 2018 | Battlegrounds, Congress, Headlines
Faced with a likely blue wave in November, House Republicans canceled all votes for October as embattled members return home to face voters. House Republicans are recessing with two weeks left on their October schedule. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said the...
by Jim Heath | Sep 26, 2018 | 2018, Battlegrounds, Congress, Headlines
Five more Republican-held House seats are moving closer to the Democrats’ reach. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, shifted its ratings for five House races today, upping Democrats’ chances in GOP-held districts in Colorado, New...
by Jim Heath | Sep 25, 2018 | Congress, Headlines, Republicans, Supreme Court
The eleven Republican men on the Senate Judiciary Committee have hired a female attorney to handle questioning during this week’s hearing with Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The attorney’s name has not been released. The hire was...
by Jim Heath | Sep 25, 2018 | 2018, Congress, Headlines
A leading Minnesota newspaper is joining a legal effort to unseal the divorce records of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), who is running for state attorney general. The Minnesota Star Tribune, the most read newspaper in the state, said in an article it had filed a motion to...
by Jim Heath | Sep 22, 2018 | 2018, Congress, Endorsements, Headlines, Political Ads
It’s the most jaw-dropping political ad of the year. Attack ads are nothing new in the television age, but one campaign video targeting an Arizona congressman just hit a new level of “whoa.” More like… “whoaaaaaa.” David Brill, an Arizona...
by Jim Heath | Sep 14, 2018 | Congress, Headlines
Rep. Clay Higgins, the onetime captain in the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office who rose to fame with a series of tough-talking videos, has introduced a bill to get Congress to clean up its act: random drug screenings. “I have observed some behavior that would cause...
