Democrats, the deficit, and all they want to achieve
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Congress's new party of power faces a challenge in achieving their goals amid the current budget crisis.
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Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership's promise of "openness and transparency" in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible to get information on lawmakers' pet projects. Staffers for only 31 of the 435 members of the House contacted by CNN last week supplied a list of their earmark requests for Fiscal Year 2008.
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President George W. Bush won the vote. Now he has to beat the math. Analysts say the logic is inescapable: you can't cut taxes deeper and still halve the deficit.
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After losing back-to-back presidential elections, Democratic leaders are trying to figure out how to make the party more relevant to mainstream Americans and keep it from slipping into perpetual minority-party status.
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BOTH PRESIDENTIAL candidates want you to think they have a serious plan to deal with the budget deficit. President Bush and Democratic nominee John F. Kerry each promise to cut it in half in the next several years.
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The Democratic Party is widely seen as having tremendous advantages in the 2008 Presidential election. They benefit from Bush fatigue, a pair of candidates that many Democrats say they would be happy to have as their nominee, and a general desire in the nation for change of course.
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The Democratic Party's most powerful weapon is heading back into battle.
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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...
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To hear Democrats tell it, all the tools to kick a dent in the Republican majority in the Pennsylvania House and Senate were in their hands Tuesday.
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With abortion, gay marriage, and other core issues at stake, Democrats and Republicans angle for any advantage.
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At least eight people are vying to hold a job crucial to the Democrats' future direction.
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By ANDREW TAYLOR  WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats pressed for budget increases for party priorities such as health, special education and medical research Tuesday as an appropriations panel approved a $152 billion spending bill.
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It is a well-worn axiom that money follows power. And that was certainly borne out by the mid-year campaign finance reports just filed by all U.S. House members Ã¢ÂÂ which exhibit the strengthened fundraising clout of the Democrats since they captured the majority of seats in last yearÃ¢ÂÂs elections.
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WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office projected Tuesday that this election-year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion, a shortfall that would be smaller than analysts predicted earlier this year.    The figure immediately provided political fodder for both parties now in the final two-month stretch of the presidential and congressional campaigns...
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Infighting among US Democrats after their victory in the November 7 elections has led some to wonder if the party is up to the task of controlling Congress.
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For the Democrats, Super Tuesday may settle nothing. The reason lies in new party rules that were never road-tested
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Drew Westen, a professor of psychology at Emory University, argues that the Democratic Party should, for the most part, focus on feelings, not issues or facts.