For the first time since she was elected in 1992, more Californians do not want Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein re-elected than do, and her likely Republican opponent hopes to capitalize on that desire for change to oust the three-term senator. (more)
California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein joined Twitter Sunday, following a dig by her newly announced Republican opponent that she was “out of touch” with her constituents because she had failed to embrace social media. (more)
California dentist and lawyer Orly Taitz, best known as a leading proponent of conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama’s birth, is running as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. (more)
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that lax gun control laws, not Obama administration malfeasance within the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF), was the real problem uncovered by Operation Fast and Furious. (more)
LOS ANGELES—Accusations that a campaign treasurer stole more than $1 million from Democratic candidates across California have jolted the party on the eve of the 2012 campaign season. (more)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A longtime Democratic campaign accountant whose clients included U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein siphoned off nearly $700,000 from a California candidate to pay her credit cards, a mortgage and business bills, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. (more)
Foreshadowing a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Defense of Marriage Act, the White House today announced President Barack Obama’s endorsement for repealing the 1996 law. (more)
Pakistan should be left to deal with the new leader of al Qaeda if intelligence shows he is there, the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Wednesday. (more)
Take the James E. Clyburn Pedestrian Overpass. Or the The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. (more)
According to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, Goodwin Liu should be the new judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals because he is “the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and would bring much-needed diversity to the Federal bench. He has a brilliant legal mind, and is admired by legal thinkers and academic scholars from across the political spectrum.” (more)
Congress is poised to decide whether aggressive, bold education reform in the District of Columbia will continue at an accelerated pace, or whether the interests of adults will trump the best interests of students. The time has come to put aside the needs of special interests and do what’s right for children — right now and by any means necessary. (more)
Senators remembered former President Ronald Reagan on Thursday, a few days before his 100th birthday. Members of both parties spoke during a two-hour tribute. (more)
It was a deliriously fun combination of Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve and world championship – with the crowd of the century on hand to celebrate. (more)
The Democrats are in trouble in the United States Senate come November. (more)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — It’s hard to turn off Meg Whitman. The most expensive campaign for governor in U.S. history — about $162 million and counting — is inundating California voters with an unprecedented array of TV and radio ads, glossy magazines, smartphone messages, Facebook videos, postcards and phone calls that will test how far a Republican dollar can go in a state Democrats often dominate. (more)
Harry Reid’s gambit to attach the DREAM Act as an amendment to this year’s Defense Authorization Bill failed miserably last week. Republicans, who strongly oppose DREAM as a stand-alone measure — but might one day consider it as part of broader immigration reform legislation — weren’t biting. Reid, however, never expected them to. He wanted Republicans to vote DREAM down so that that he could continue to paint the GOP as “anti-immigrant” with Latino voters back in Nevada. Reid’s been in a dead-heat with Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle for months, and may well lose his seat. Latinos comprise 22% of the Nevada electorate, and voted 3-1 for Obama in 2008. Reid desperately needs to get them to the polls. (more)
While Democratic leaders ponder whether to vote on extending the Bush-era tax cuts before the November midterm elections, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday that she thinks it would be a terrible idea. (more)
Democratic senators are donating generously to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid but his biggest contributor is the one who often gives him a serious case of heartburn – Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.). (more)
On Monday, The Daily Caller began revealing its Ranking of America’s 50 Best Colleges. We encourage you to check out our methodology and the reasons why our college ranking is uniquely definitive. (more)
