Progressive Democrat vies to take back Kennedy seat
Many in Massachusetts were unhappy to see Republican Scott Brown win the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in 2010 - now they are throwing themselves into the campaign to elect Elizabeth Warren.
Will Republicans let "Made in Missouri" happen?
Missouri's Republican-dominated Senate did something unexpected recently during the legislative special session.
GOP opens offensive against almost all regulations
Republican lawmakers in Congress have opened an unprecedented offensive against almost every type of government regulation.
President demands lawmakers pass $447 billion jobs bill
Republicans, as expected, are already throwing wrenches into the works, with all of the GOP presidential candidates essentially trashing the proposal.
Public support grows for government jobs program
"Let's make our country what it should be," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday.
In Florida, 98 percent pass state mandated drug test
As results for the first month of Gov. Rick Scott's "drug test the poor" law come in, only 2 percent test positive for illicit drug use. Conflict-of-interest questions also surfaced.
Philadelphia says: Heal America, tax Wall Street
Over 100 rallied outside the downtown office of Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., Sept. 1 to deliver the message.
GOP finally masters Internet with social media blitz
Before this year, using the words "Republican" and "online" in the same sentence conjured up images of your grandmother attempting to plug her phone cord into her typewriter.
“America Wants to Work” kicks off this week
The AFL-CIO and its allies will spend weeks organizing an "America Wants to Work" campaign to focus on what they see as the nation's real crisis: jobs.
Ohio Republican forced to retract voter supression threat
Facing calls by area members of Congress for a Justice Department investigation, Secretary of State John Husted retracted a threat not to process mail ballot applications sent to voters by the Cuyahoga County government.
