Why the Dems are Worrying About Money
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Despite their lead in the polls, congressional Democrats are concerned, and even feuding, about whether they will have enough cash to take back the House this fall
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Senate and House Democrats, optimistic about their election-year prospects, have more money in the bank for the midterm contests than their Republican counterparts.
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Investors are fretting over the Democrats' victory, but there are still ways to make money in health care.
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Tim Johnson's illness has threatened the Democrats' majority. But that may not be such a bad thing
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As House Democrats wrangle over details of a $100 billion war spending bill -- including whether restrictions should be placed on troops sent to Iraq -- some members want to add significant money for agricultural relief, Hurricane Katrina reconstruction and other nonmilitary projects.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; As the nation's trial lawyers again funneled tens of millions of dollars to Democrats and their causes in the last election, Republicans were crafting a strategy to choke off that money for future campaigns.
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When Democrats blasted Republicans last fall for taking annual congressional pay raises while blocking numerous attempts to raise the minimum wage, it was an effective campaign tactic. Democrats vowed not to accept the annual cost-of-living adjustment until Congress increases the minimum wage.
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Money follows power. That simple axiom helps explain why incumbent members of Congress, on average, raise so much more campaign cash than the candidates who want to supplant them.
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Consumers aren't the only ones getting hit by inflation. Campaign donors will also feel its effect as candidates and political parties raise money for the 2006 elections.
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In a year the Democrats should win the White House in a walk, we've got a perfect storm that could put a Republican there. With the Republican nominee all but decided, the Democrats are split down the middle across racial, gender and age lines. So we have three parties, not two, and the Republicans are spouting the same old fear about war and security while they advocate raping the Constitution and spending us into oblivion. Four more years of spitting and swearing while our economy goes from second rate to third world. How will this get resolved? Oy?
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Liberal pundits are now as enraged as their foes. That may be a problem for the Democrats
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Democrats seeking votes for their Iraq-withdrawal plan have stuffed the bill it's in with billions of dollars for farms, flu preparedness, New Orleans levees, home heating and other causes.
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Congress is on the hunt for revenue raisers. Watch your wallet. Call your lobbyist.
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Outpolled, outmaneuvered and out of power, Democrats are suffering an identity crisis.
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For certain conservatives, this fund might be appealing.
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Political and fiscal constraints will make it hard for Democratic critics of the presidentâs budget to assert their priorities.
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When the new Democratic majority in the House of Representatives passed one of its first spending bills, funding the Energy Department for the rest of 2007, it proudly boasted that the legislation contained no money earmarked for lawmakers' pet projects and stressed that any prior congressional r...