- 06/26/07
Democrats' hopes of unseating North Carolina Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in next year's election suffered a setback Monday when Democratic Rep. Brad Miller revealed that he would take a pass on the race.
< Read more > - 06/26/07
Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) is a little safer today following Rep. Brad Miller's (D-N.C.) announcement yesterday that he would not run against her in 2008.
< Read more > - 06/26/07
Ted Kaplan, a Forsyth County commissioner, said he is thinking about running for the U.S. Senate next year against Republican incumbent Elizabeth Dole.
< Read more > - 06/26/07
North Carolina Democrats are once again asking themselves "Who will it be?" after Congressman Brad Miller said he would not run for the U.S. Senate in 2008.
< Read more > - 06/26/07
With Rep. Brad Miller out of the game in the 2008 Senate race, Democrats are scrambling again to come up with a big name to take on Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year.
< Read more > - 06/25/07
Citing family considerations, 13th District Congressman Brad Miller said Monday he wouldn't be the Democratic candidate to challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008.
< Read more > - 06/25/07
Rep. Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat who won a third term in the House last fall, said Monday he will not challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008.
< Read more > - 06/25/07
Rep. Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat who won a third term in the House last fall, said Monday he will not challenge incumbent GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008.
< Read more > - 06/25/07
Rep. Brad Miller will not take on Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole in the 2008 election. In an interview this afternoon, the Raleigh Democrat said he was excited about the possibility of taking on Sen. Elizabeth Dole, but he was afraid of what the campaign would be like.
< Read more > - 06/23/07
James Comey's voice broke, and he repeatedly stopped to compose himself. On May 15, while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the former deputy attorney general described the shocking events he had witnessed late one night in 2004.
< Read more > - 06/21/07
House lawmakers will consider adding a provision to raise the pay of some inspectors general to a bill that sets terms for IGs at seven years.
< Read more > - 06/21/07
A House subcommittee yesterday delved into long-standing tensions on how best to ensure the independence of the government's inspectors general so that they don't end up as lapdogs to their agencies, reluctant to prowl for waste, fraud and abuse.
< Read more > - 06/20/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller is close to making perhaps the most difficult choice of his political career -- whether to challenge one of the most famous names in American politics.
< Read more > - 06/15/07
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., long has defended congressional earmarking - the practice by which lawmakers quietly, sometimes secretly, slip pet projects and favored contractors into mammoth spending bills. But he now appears determined to make himself the poster child of egregious earmarks by squandering $63 million on a San Diego firm's failed military jet.
< Read more > - 06/15/07
The investigation into funding issues at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory has expanded its probe to gather any "motivation that individuals may have" regarding the lab's future.
< Read more > - 06/14/07
On paper, it looks really good. An inexpensive VTOL plane with a range of 5,000 miles and a top speed of 700 mph, capable of carrying 48 fully armed soldiers and a Humvee. What general wouldn't want to have seen such a tool on the battlefield?
< Read more > - 06/13/07
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, said Wednesday he is determined to continue securing federal funding for a San Diego County company that has been trying for two decades, without success, to design a military jet that can safely take off vertically.
< Read more > - 06/15/07
Two senior congressmen Thursday demanded a criminal investigation of NASA's top lawyer for destroying government records of a meeting involving the agency's administrator and its embattled inspector general.
< Read more > - 06/13/07
Rep. Brad Miller of North Carolina and other Democratic legislators argued yesterday that Congress should stop spending money on an aircraft that's never become airborne over 20 years of research and testing. Republicans pushed for continued support.
< Read more > - 06/13/07
Rep. Duncan Hunter on Tuesday defended his role in helping steer tens of millions of dollars to a La Jolla-based aerospace firm to develop a military jet the Pentagon did not want. Hunter aggressively supported the program over decades even though the Pentagon repeatedly questioned the jet's feasibility and lambasted the contractor's work.
< Read more > - 06/13/07
Democratic lawmakers argued Tuesday that Congress should stop spending money on an aircraft that's never become airborne over two decades of research and testing. Republicans pushed for continued support.
< Read more > - 06/12/07
Democratic lawmakers argued Tuesday that Congress should stop spending money on an aircraft that's never become airborne over two decades of research and testing.
< Read more > - 06/12/07
Members of Congress watched videos today of what they got for $63 million spent on an experimental aircraft the military did not want: repeated crashes and significant failures
< Read more > - 06/11/07
U.S. Rep. Brad Miller of Raleigh is calling for an end to years of federal funding to an aerospace company that is trying to develop a military aircraft that takes off and lands vertically.
< Read more > - 06/08/07
Forthcoming historians will judge the world harshly if more is not done to help stop the ongoing conflict in Darfur, Sudan, U.S. Congressman Brad Miller (N.C., 13th District) told a crowd of approximately 130 people on Friday, June 1.
< Read more > - 06/07/07
Homeowners unable to pay monthly mortgage bills and facing foreclosure shouldn't count on help from Washington this year. Regulators and lawmakers seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach as they confront the fallout from several years of lenders making too many home loans to people with inadequate credit.
< Read more > - 06/08/07
NASA's beleaguered inspector general admitted being verbally abusive to his staff members but insisted his behavior didn't hurt his effectiveness, saying he has the confidence of his workers.
< Read more > - 06/08/07
Key members of Congress urged NASA's inspector general to resign Thursday, saying they have lost confidence in his ability to conduct objective and critical investigations related to the nation's space agency.
< Read more > - 06/07/07
Lawmakers on Thursday demanded the resignation of the head of NASA's internal watchdog office for appearing too cozy with space agency management and bullying his staff. Robert Cobb called the allegations against him unjustified.
< Read more > - 06/07/07
NASA's embattled inspector general will face down some of his toughest congressional critics today, with the agency's top watchdog clearly intending to mount a stout defense of his conduct.
< Read more > - 06/07/07
NASA's embattled inspector general will face down some of his toughest congressional critics today, with the agency's top watchdog clearly intending to mount a stout defense of his conduct.
< Read more > - 06/05/07
A mobilization effort is under way to keep the Federal Farm Service Agency office in Granville County from a possible closure or merger with the one in neighboring Vance County.
< Read more > - 06/04/07
North Carolina's congressional delegation spent more than $1 million on bulk mailings to constituents during the last session of Congress, ranging from $326,642 for Rep. Virginia Foxx to none for Reps. G.K. Butterfield and Howard Coble.
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