Having exceeded expectations for their March fundraising, Senate Democrats have launched an online ad campaign targeting several Republicans running for Senate this year, including incumbent Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, according to the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC). The DSCC last month “we received more contributions and raised more money than at any time since before the 2010 elections,” says Guy Cecil, executive director of the arm of the Democratic Party which oversees the election...
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Congressman Hustled Off Floor For Hoodie; Trayvon Martin Protest
A congressman was escorted off the House floor after donning a hooded sweatshirt in protest of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American Florida teen. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) was forced off the House floor after giving a speech in which he denounced the sort of racial profiling which appears to have led to 17-year-old Martin being gunned down in his Sanford, Fla., neighborhood. Martin’s death has sparked national outrage and protest, as well as multiple investigations into the...
Democrats Sees Bad Signs At High Court For Healthcare Reform Law
With at least much of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc “spoken for,” a pair of Democratic strategists say that they are not as optimistic as perhaps the Obama administration appears to be that the healthcare reform law will survive this week’s legal challenge at the high court. Oral arguments began this week at the high court in a number of cases brought against the landmark two-year-old law. The court could rule for or against all or part of healthcare...
‘Obamacare Is Working’
Its fate may be in the hands of the Supreme Court come Monday, but on Friday Democrats were not shy about defending the landmark 2010 healthcare reform law on the second anniversary of its enactment. While President Obama himself talked about healthcare reform Friday only in the form of a single quote on the White House website, many other prominent Democrats were much more voluble — including Vice President Joe Biden, who extolled the virtues of reform in an...
With Eyes On Healthcare Reform, Another Patients’ Rights Battle Brews
While public attention might be on this week’s second anniversary of healthcare reform — and next week’s legal challenges against it at the Supreme Court — consumer advocates already have moved onto the next battle for patients’ rights in Congress. Nearly two dozen consumers’ groups wrote a letter Wednesday to GOP House Speaker John Boehner, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and other lawmakers to object to H.R. 5, the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act. Although its supporters...
Voter ID Laws: Could They Backfire?
Although Democrats and progressives worry that a net of restrictive state-level voter ID laws could prevent millions of Democratic-leaning voters from casting ballots this fall, the national outcry against these new measures could at least blunt their effect. Indeed, have these laws — usually enacted in states controlled by Republican governors and state legislators — sparked such attention and outrage that they could actually backfire? The threat that these laws could deny the right to vote to so many...
Sen. Patrick Leahy Voices His Support For Kony 2012
A key U.S. senator voiced his support for Kony 2012, the online video which portrays atrocities committed by a Ugandan warlord and has become a celebrity-fueled viral Internet cause. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy visited Champlain College in his home state of Vermont Monday, to praise the role of students there in the Kony 2012 movement, which seeks the capture of Joseph Kony, a brutal warlord who has forced young boys to serve in his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and...
For Women’s Day, Democratic Senators Push John Boehner To Quit Birth Control Fight
In observance of International Women’s Day, all 12 Democratic women senators sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker John Boehner calling on him to rescind his pledge to push forward with efforts to restrict women’s access to contraception after the Blunt amendment was defeated in the Senate. The senators’ letter comes in the wake of Boehner’s public pledge to continue efforts to limit birth control access in the House, where a similar version of the Blunt amendment has over...
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