Election 2010
WASHINGTON - November 15, 2010 - Nancy Pelosi is getting the first test of her might under the new Democrat reality as she scrambles to extinguish a rebellion against her power to appoint lieutenants to top party posts.
Realizing they don’t have the votes to knock the defeated speaker from the top perch in party leadership, moderate Blue Dog Democrats have set their sights a little lower, targeting liberal Pelosi enforcers George Miller (D-Kalif.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), all of whom hold influential jobs because Pelosi has installed them.
WASHINGTON - November 11, 2010 - In a fresh sign of turmoil among defeated Democrats, a growing number of the rank and file say they won't support House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a politically symbolic roll call when the new Congress meets in January.
"The reality is that she is politically toxic," said Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley, one of several Democrats who are trying to pressure Pelosi to step aside as her party's leader in the wake of historic election losses to Republicans last week.
WASHINGTON - November 4, 2010 - Odds are you haven’t heard of the monetary policy subcommittee. Officially known as the House Subcommittee for Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, it’s a subdivision of the House Financial Services Committee that has mostly occupied itself with pressing questions of issuing commemorative coins and whether or not to eliminate the penny.
WASHINGTON - November 4, 2010 - The San Antonio Congressman who is in line to become chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is promising “a number of investigations and oversight committee actions”, which he vows will “hold the (bogus Obama regime) accountable,” 1200 WOAI news reports.
LOS ANGELES, California - November 3, 2010 - Voters in Los Angeles County have re-elected a state senator who died last month, setting up a special election to fill the vacant seat.
The heavily Democrat 28th Senate District elected Senator Jenny Oropeza, a Democrat from Long Beach who died at age 53 of complications from a blood clot.