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» Pairing Up for Parity , April 01, 2004 Advocates of pay parity won the day Wednesday, when an overwhelming majority of House lawmakers voted for a resolution supporting military-civilian pay parity in 2005.

» Dems together on budget, March 30, 2004 House Democrats will attempt today to force Republicans to retreat from a key provision in their budget, hoping to repeat last year’s victory in which the GOP leaders released their rank-and-file members and allowed them to vote for the Democrats’ motion to instruct conferees.

» Budget Battle Heads to Floor, March 23, 2004 As House Republicans work to build support for the fiscal 2005 budget, Democrats head into this week’s vote confident that their own Members will unanimously oppose the GOP bill.

» House Dems launch spring offensive on Medicare law, March 23, 2004 House Democrats fanned across the country last weekend for a spring offensive on the new prescription-drug program, holding more than 70 town-hall meetings.

» Ethics Truce Frays in House , March 17, 2004 A seven-year ethics truce between congressional Republicans and Democrats has begun to fray under the weight of mounting alleged abuses by House GOP leaders and tensions among Democrats over how aggressively to pursue the matters.

» Dems urge White House restraint on whistleblower, March 16, 2004 Democrats are urging President Bush not to retaliate against a whistleblower who spoke out on alleged White House efforts to suppress Medicare program.

» Deficit Sparks Family Feud Among House Republicans, March 13, 2004 Lawmakers are split on spending caps and tax cuts as they try to build a budget for fiscal 2005

» Common Cause, March 09, 2004 Democrats of all stripes are quickly coming together to beat the Republicans

» Caution on Election Reform Urged, March 08, 2004 Congressional sponsors of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 cautioned their colleagues that ongoing efforts to amend the law to deal with security issues could do more harm than good.

» Open Checkbooks: So Far This Cycle, DeLay, Hoyer Give More Than Hastert, Pelosi , March 05, 2004 When it comes to colleague-to-colleague giving, the No. 2 leaders are the tops

» Rational Exuberance, February 26, 2004 There is a strange, rare political species quietly roaming the landscape these days. Long endangered and occasionally thought to be extinct, its sudden re-emergence is as startling as it is sublime, particularly on Capitol Hill, where it seemed to face a fate on par with what the dinosaurs endured.

» Leaders Ponder Rewards for Newcomer, February 23, 2004 House Democratic leaders are scrambling to find a plum committee slot to reward their newest Member, Rep.-elect Ben Chandler (D-Ky.), for wresting away a Republican seat and giving them much-needed momentum heading into the 2004 elections.

» Hoyer 'Made to Order' as Minority Whip , February 22, 2004 These days, Hoyer, from La Plata, the 64-year-old dean of Maryland's delegation, finds himself in a comfortable spot almost everywhere he goes.

» Key legislators stand firm on military-civilian pay parity , February 20, 2004 Washington-area House lawmakers said Friday that they continue to support military-civilian pay parity, despite recent calls from the Bush administration and a senior congressman on the House Appropriations Committee to hold down the 2005 civil service pay raise.

» Democrats Take Kentucky Special Election, February 17, 2004 Former state Attorney General Ben Chandler (D) won a convincing victory tonight over state Sen. Alice Forgy Kerr (R) in Kentucky's 6th district, handing House Democrats their first victory in a Republican held-seat in a special election since 1991.

» For Hoyer, All Signs Point to Democratic Pickups, February 17, 2004 Pointing to hoped-for gains in upcoming special elections, renewed vigor in Texas House races and the nation’s evolving political mood, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is painting an ever-rosier political picture for House Democrats heading into the 2004 elections.

» Democrats Anticipate Momentum, February 10, 2004 Fresh off their annual retreat to plot election-year strategy, House Democrats for the first time in recent months believe they have a legitimate shot at narrowing the margin of their minority, sources throughout the Caucus indicate.

» Budgeting for Another Florida, February 08, 2004 President Bush has been spending money with reckless abandon, but he has found at least one place to economize: election reform.

» Bush's Unified Government, February 08, 2004 In the 27 months since he lost the popular vote by half a million ballots and won a majority in the Electoral College only by the intervention of the U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush has become leader of a uniquely unified government.

» Steny's Mission, February 06, 2004 Reflecting the party's strategy for cementing the traditional Jewish-Democratic bond, Mr. Hoyer makes the case that while Israel is important to most Jews, it continues to be just one of many issues that shape their votes and their political activism.

» Brad's Little Problem, February 04, 2004 In the Feb. 4 Roll Call, Nicole Duran reports that the refusal by Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., to "toe the party line on Medicare does not seem to be hurting his son's campaign to succeed him in Congress."

» For the Record, February 04, 2004 House Democrats may file an ethics complaint if Republican congressional leaders do not open an investigation into whether bribes were offered to win passage of the Medicare prescription drug bill, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) said.

» Congressman Urges Vote-Buying Inquiry , February 03, 2004 A House Democratic leader said yesterday that he plans to press for an investigation by the chamber's ethics committee of alleged Republican vote-buying during deliberations on a new Medicare drug plan last November, threatening to end an informal agreement among lawmakers to refrain from triggering inquiries against one another.

» Hoyer Seeks Hastert Intervention, February 03, 2004 House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Monday he will for a third time call on Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to urge the ethics committee to investigate alleged House floor bribery, but if the Republican leader continues to balk, he vowed Democrats will be forced to file a complaint.

» An End to Ethics Truce?, February 02, 2004 House Democrats are on the cusp of breaking the seven-year cease-fire with Republicans over filing ethics complaints, sources throughout the Caucus confirm.

 

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