The Democratic National Committee transferred $2.5 million to its House and Senate campaign arms as well as a trio of contested governors races today, its latest financial investment in the party heading into the 2010 midterm elections. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each received $833,000 while another $833,000 was doled out to gubernatorial contests in Florida ($400,000), Pennsylvania ($333,000) and Maryland ($100,000), according to a source familiar with the money maneuverings. Earlier this month, the DNC sent $2 million total to the DSCC ($667,000), DCCC ($667,000) and the state parties of Florida ($333,000) and Ohio ($333,000), and Chairman Tim Kaine has promised $20 million in direct investments to party committees and state parties. The DNC -- and, by extension, President Obama and his political inner circle -- have come under some criticism from congressional Democrats of late for being insufficiently focused on the coming
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Congress is getting ready to pass tough new aviation safety measures that were developed in response to a deadly commuter plane crash in western New York in early 2009, a key lawmaker said Wednesday.
Congress on Wednesday changed a quarter-century-old law that has subjected tens of thousands of blacks to long prison terms for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the powder form of the drug.
The victories of Rep. Mary Fallin (R) and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins (D) in yesterday's Oklahoma gubernatorial primaries makes the Sooner State the latest state on track to elect a female governor this fall. Along with Oklahoma, New Mexico is ensured to elect a female governor too -- Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez (R) is facing off against Lt. Gov. Diane Denish (D). Women have also been nominated in gubernatorial races in four other states: state Rep. Nikki Haley (R) in South Carolina, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman (R) in California, state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink (D) in Florida and state Senate President Libby Mitchell (D) in Maine. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's (R) primary opposition has all but disappeared, while state House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher (D), state Auditor Rita Meyer (R) and former Secretary of State Karen Handel (R) are competing for their parties' nominations in
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Congress was warned Tuesday that the failure to build the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada could delay licensing of the country's first new nuclear power plants in a generation.
