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The Ohio River Basin is getting its own interest group in Congress.
The euphoria over President Barack Obama's inauguration is giving way to political reality for African-American lawmakers as Democrats grapple with stubborn challenges facing a long-awaited domestic agenda.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus will travel to Cuba on Friday in another sign of federal lawmakers' interest in easing a long-standing trade embargo and travel restrictions.
President Barack Obama reassured members of the Congressional Black Caucus that he's on their side and will do what he can to support the group's left-leaning agenda, lawmakers said Thursday after an hour-long session at the White House.
The Congressional Black Caucus is calling for Illinois Democrat Roland Burris to be allowed to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
Black leaders in Congress don't expect to have an especially close relationship with President-elect Barack Obama.
DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa is where Barack Obama’s path to the presidency began.
The contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for Texas delegates appeared to be tightening, as counting from Saturday's caucuses dragged on into Sunday.
The Texas Democratic Party said Monday it had denied a request by Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign that it take extra steps to verify the signatures of election night caucus-goers before party conventions being held at the end of the month.
Fewer than half of Texas' voting sites had reported the results by Thursday from Democratic caucuses Tuesday night that were so chaotic and overcrowded by record turnout that police were called to some polling places.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has raised the possibility of a challenge to Texas' primary and caucus rules just days before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action from the state's Democratic Party.
Winning the delegates wasn't enough. Now the Democrats running for president must keep them from straying. The party's arcane system of caucuses and conventions has both campaigns working to keep delegates they had already claimed in Nevada, Iowa, Kansas and elsewhere.
Democratic voters flocked to Hawaii caucus sites by the thousands on Tuesday as party officials predicted a record turnout in the contest between Honolulu-born Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are expected to draw long lines and record turnout Tuesday as voters take advantage of a rare opportunity to influence the tight contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
You've waited patiently in line to vote, only to be told your name can't be found on registration rolls. Worse, they've run out of ballots at your polling station.
Chelsea Clinton munched chili at a popular Hawaiian restaurant Saturday while urging hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to vote for her mother in the upcoming Democratic presidential caucus.
More than 17,000 provisional ballots are the only thing that stand between either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama from claiming victory in the state's Super Tuesday caucus.
Democrats prepared Wednesday to examine more than 17,000 provisional ballots that will determine a winner in New Mexico's tightly contested presidential caucus.
A union with ties to Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton failed in court Thursday to block the state party's plans to hold caucuses at special precincts inside casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.
A last-minute federal court battle over caucus rules demonstrates just how important a tight three-way Democratic presidential contest in Nevada has become in the battle for momentum headed into Super Tuesday's votes.
The Nevada caucuses are becoming a proxy for the racially tinged fight for the Democratic presidential nomination, with Barack Obama's campaign criticizing Hillary Rodham Clinton's allies for a lawsuit that could prevent some minorities from participating.
Nevada teachers have filed a legal challenge that could curb the influence of the state's largest union in its Democratic caucus later this month.
The mantra of change that helped lift Barack Obama to his surprisingly robust victory in Iowa's Democratic presidential caucuses was strongly embraced by young people and independents. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee's win was more rooted in tradition and religion.
After a year of intensely covering the presidential campaign, TV news networks finally had actual votes to count Thursday — and at times their Iowa caucus coverage felt like boarding a jet airplane to travel down the street.
South Carolina GOP offers Sanford no supportRepublican legislators fumed Saturday over Gov. Mark Sanford's affair and questionable travel, but didn't try to remove him from office before they return to the Statehouse in January.
Call Out Harry Reid (202 224 3542)"We need to call his office (202 224 3542) repeatedly to demand that they get a bill done and voted on by the August recess or they should forfeit their vacations because they have an obligation to Americans across this country to get it done."
Democrats caused the economic crisis -- and here is the proof!Watch this incredible -- and disgraceful -- video from 2004 as Republicans warn about the danger Fannie Mae and the mortgage industry pose to the economy and try to create new regulations which would have prevented this whole mess.
Black caucus to press Obama on prioritiesPresident Barack Obama may be in familiar company when he sits down for his first White House meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, but it won't be a clubby reunion.
Black caucus to press Obama on prioritiesPresident Barack Obama may be in familiar company when he sits down for his first White House meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, but it won't be a clubby reunion.
Democrats spend $500,000 of taxpayer money on annual retreatsThe House Democratic Caucus spent more than $500,000 in taxpayer money over the past five years for its annual retreats at resorts in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
In Albany, Higher Taxes for the Rich ExpectedWarning to rich New Yorkers: The tax man might be digging deeper into your pockets in the years ahead.
Before the White House, the Clubhouse - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.comPresident Obama, east hardly on the Gold Course and play the first 18 hole game in a series of planned golf events. Why on vacation
Are the Republicans Still a National Party?I've been turning my attention recently to the House, which is almost certain to be the more active of the two chambers in the first 30-60 days of the Obama Administration.
From December 2007 to March 2008, I wrote various drafts of a proposal on how our political parties -- starting in 2012 -- might adopt primary election procedures that would better serve our country in selecting presidential candidates.
Hollywood Insiders rip MSNBC, defend PalinIn a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC for what some believe to be "completely out of control" presidential race coverage.
Fissure in Nevada's Republican Party may hurt John McCain in NovemberNow, as Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to formally pick McCain as their presidential nominee, Paul supporters are fuming over a nasty battle that resulted in two sets of Nevada delegates vying to be seated at the convention.
Yesterday we did assist to the speech addressed by Obama to the folks in Berlin, Germany, at the famous Sieggesaeule (The Victory Column). Authorities told more than 200,000 people listing to Obama's statement.
Obama Calls Muslim Women Barred From Stage - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times BlogObama Calls Muslim Women Barred From Stage By Sarah Wheaton
Reuters and FOX are reporting that Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, met Thursday night with Sen. Hillary Clinton. FOX reports that they met at the home of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Reuters declines to speculate.
Now as it is clear that Obama crossed the threshold to be the Democratic nominee to the Presidentials 2008 a true question might be the role of Mrs. Clinton.
I've had the conversation a million times around the vine and everywhere else.
New Report Shows Caucuses Unfair - How Is This The "Will Of The People"?"[I]t''s been shown that caucus elections not only suppress voter participation but also literally systemically disenfranchise voters such as people with disabilities, military personnel on assignment, those physically incapable of participation and all other would-be voters wh …
Clinton's Claim - In A True Democracy It Is Winning A Majority Of The Popular Vote That Should Be ParamountAlthough Mr. Obama has won more states and more elected delegates by far, the system by which he won is deeply flawed.
Kos: Some predictions regarding Guam and, more importantly, Indiana.A Kos blogger goes ape-nuts with numbers, figures, and other minutia regarding the upcoming caucus in Guam and primary in Indiana.
Hillary Clinton Asks Obama Pledged Delegates In North Dakota To SwitchSen. Hillary Clinton made a blunt appeal to North Dakota delegates to switch their support to her, despite the fact that Sen. Barack Obama handily defeated her in the state's caucus in February.
Bill Clinton: Caucuses 'Killing Us'And yet again, there's a line being drawn between the caucus states and primary states, this time by Bill Clinton
Exclusive: Clinton Vows to Push On - Yahoo! NewsYesterday in Montgomery County I probably had six women tell me that they had changed their registration from Republican to Democrat to be able to vote for me,
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