August 7, 2010
Greg Gordon AND Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers | 8-5-2010

WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury on Thursday charged a once-powerful Washington lobbyist with evading federal limits on campaign donations by using straw donors to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of Congress, especially those with influence over military spending.

Read more – including donations to Norm Dicks……. Read More

July 28, 2010
Jordan Schrader, TNT Political Buzz | 7-28-2010
Republican Senate candidates Dino Rossi, Clint Didier and Paul Akers have signed on to the “Contract from America,” supported by many tea party groups and other conservative organizations.

The 10-point agenda, whose name is a takeoff of Republicans’ 1994 Contract With America, offers a series of promises for candidates running for Congress and other elected positions to adopt. Hundreds of candidates and a few members of Congress, including Washington state’s Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers, have made the pledge……. Read More

July 19, 2010
Chad Pergram, Fox News | 7-19-2010
The Tea Party Caucus has just joined the Major League in Congress.

It now joins other such groups in the House of Representatives like the Afterschool Caucus, the 9-11 Commission Caucus, the Bourbon Caucus and the Minor League Baseball Caucus.

The House Administration Committee Monday approved a request by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., to form the Tea Party Caucus…… Read More

July 19, 2010
Naftali Bendavid, WSJ | 7-19-2010
WASHINGTON—Democrats for the first time are acknowledging that Republicans could retake the Senate this November if everything falls into place for the GOP, less than two years after Democrats held a daunting 60-seat majority.

Leaders of both parties have believed for months that Republicans could win the House, where every lawmaker faces re-election. But a change of party control in the Senate, where only a third of the members are running and Republicans must capture 10 seats, seemed out of the question……. Read More

July 17, 2010
RasmussenReports.com | 7-16-2010
Washington’s Senate race looks increasingly like a referendum on incumbent Democrat Patty Murray with two Republican candidates edging past her this month.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Washington State finds Republican hopefuls Dino Rossi and Clint Didier both earning 48% support ……… Read More

July 16, 2010
Newsmax.com | 7-15-2010
WASHINGTON – The Senate Republican leader promised on Thursday to rein in the size of government and make it more efficient if the party does well in November’s congressional elections.

Republicans head into the autumn campaign ……… Read More

July 12, 2010
FoxNews.com | 7-12-2010
With the economy still sputtering, Republicans are drawing renewed attention to the looming expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and warning that the rollback will “clobber” everyone from small business owners to middle-class families.

Though the tax cuts passed by Congress with the encouragement of former President George W. Bush are often described as a boon for the wealthy, the changes passed in 2001 and 2003 lowered taxes for every income bracket…….. Read More

June 30, 2010
Michael O’Brien, THE HILL.com | 6-30-2010
The top two House Republicans signed onto two petitions to force votes to repeal Democrats’ healthcare reform law in its entirety.

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said they had signed onto discharge petitions set to be offered by members of their conference, one of which would seek to repeal health reform in its entirety…….. Read More

June 23, 2010
WDSU.com | 6-23-2010
Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue

NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil. But the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department has concerns about where the dredging is being done…….. Read More

June 22, 2010
Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk , Bloomberg | 6-22-2010
A New Orleans federal judge lifted the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling imposed by President Barack Obama following the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling services shares jumped on the news.

Obama temporarily halted all drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet on May 27 to give a presidential commission time to study improvements in the safety of offshore operations. More than a dozen Louisiana offshore service and supply companies sued U.S. regulators to lift the ban……. Read More

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