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Reporting from Washington — As Democrats fan out across the country to campaign for reelection this month, many are surprisingly quiet about their hard-won accomplishments — the major bills they have passed under President Obama. (more)

The road to a Republican congressional majority may not run through New England, but GOP officials expect to make at least a few inroads this fall in a region where they suffered heavy losses in recent election cycles. (more)

Saying “I’m very comfortable where I am,” Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) indicated Tuesday he will not switch to the Republican Party — or become an independent. (more)

At the core of some of the major policy fights in Washington these days is a ferocious competition between Republicans and Democrats over which party is the champion of America’s small businesses — a mantle that each side views as crucial to shaping economic policy and winning the November elections. (more)

House and Senate Democratic leaders Tuesday rolled out their big “spill bills” — the main legislative responses to the Gulf oil spill. The proposals are packed with aggressive offshore drilling reforms that Republicans have long fought and were immediately met with fierce pushback from the GOP and the oil industry. (more)

One year after anger over a proposed health care overhaul lit a fire at town halls and ignited the Tea Party movement, the stage is set for Republicans to rally against the Democrats’ agenda. But it remains unclear whether an anti-Democratic agenda is more effective than a pro-GOP platform in 2010. (more)

Republicans Saturday promised a full-fledged campaign to make permanent a suite of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and accused President Obama and other Democratic leaders for not taking steps yet to prevent their sunset. (more)

(CNN) — Anti-establishment candidates are capitalizing on widespread anti-incumbent fervor and proposing term limits as a way to bring the power back to the people. (more)

Four months out from Election Day, the Democrats will probably lose the House and are in some danger of losing the Senate. But losing those legislative bodies would not be the most damaging aspect of the impending tsunami heading toward the Democratic Party. After all, Barack Obama will still be in the White House to stop the congressional Republicans from accomplishing much. (more)

Smiling docents, green-clad rangers, music piped in everywhere — for Michael Jackson fans, Neverland State Park would no doubt be a thriller. But state park officials say it’s an idea whose time may never come. (more)

Security at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale is on the lookout for people who have apparently been defacing Michael Jackson’s mausoleum wall. (more)

It’s little secret that over the past two election cycles the Republican Party has taken a shellacking amongst Latino voters. (more)

The 2010 Texas Republican Party platform, decided last month during the Party’s state convention, unabashedly embraces the far right of the Republican Party. The document, which can be accessed here at the Texas GOP’s website, contains controversial positions, such as support for anti-sodomy laws. (more)

PRAGUE (AP) — Thousands of Czechs are protesting plans to place a Michael Jackson statue in Prague. (more)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are show business royalty, heirs of the King of Pop. Someday, they will be very rich. But a year after their father Michael Jackson’s death, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson are normal kids full of fun and pranks, devoted to each other and to their grandmother who is their guardian, according to a lawyer who sees them frequently. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) – It’s not easy crafting an agenda for the fall elections. Just ask Republicans in Congress. (more)

To gauge what voters are thinking in House districts where surveys show the races will likely be tight in November and a switch in party control is possible, Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies conducted a poll of 1,200 “likely” voters in 60 battleground districts that elected Democrats in 2008 (one of the seats is vacant) and 10 districts now represented by Republicans. (more)

Republicans are banking that anti-health reform ballot initiatives will give them a significant edge in the November midterm elections. (more)

Two weeks ago, House Minority Whip Rep. Eric Cantor launched his new “YouCut” program—an experimental platform by which citizens can go to his website and each week chose from different programs they think should no longer be funded by the federal government. (more)