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The Kane County Board will have a new face even before the 2010 elections as the need to fill a vacancy may elevate a candidate to a seat on the board.

DIXON – A Friday night fundraiser for state Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon, was supposed to be a local show, but health care fever in Washington turned that plan on its head.

The result of the NY-23 special election shouldn't have come as a surprise, since Republicans have lost 20 of the past 29 House special elections, dating back to January 2003.

This is a rush transcript from "Your World With Neil Cavuto," November 3, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

Monday was the last day for candidates from established parties to get their names on the ballot for next year's congressional, state and county elections, and as expected, the field included a couple of local former legislators vying to win back their seats.

The deadline has come and gone, and after a flurry of last-minute filings, the ballot for next year's elections has taken shape.

Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, pictured in friendlier days in 1995, are rivals on upstate NY race.

The next time Roy Blunt and his Republican colleagues complain that are a lot of pages in the House Democrats' health care bill, he should be asked to explain what's changed since November 2003, and explain why he's not an enormous, gargantuan hypocrite.

BATAVIA – A local businessman has officially filed to run for Congress. Thursday, Jim Purcell, of Batavia, announced that he has become the latest candidate to officially seek to place his name on the ballot in the race for the Republican nomination in Illinois' 14th Congressional District.

An essay just posted in Time magazine takes Minnesota's own Michele Bachmann, mixes the recently prominent liberal flamethrower from Florida, Rep.

For all the encouragement that Republicans took from the angry health-care town halls of August, the fall has not been kind to the GOP.

Monday was the first day of the filing period for the 2010 elections, but while election authorities were open and accepting petitions all day, they really only needed the first few minutes.

Even the most astute voter might have been a little surprised to see candidates for governor showing up in TV ads before Halloween this year.

Date : Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:49:33 +0500 WASHINGTON BRIEFING: KEY ARMENIAN CAUCUS MEMBERS COMMENT ON PROTOCOLS, GENOCIDE RESOLUTION by Emil Sanamyan http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-10-17-key-armenian-caucus-members-comment-on-protocols-genocide-resolution Saturday October 17, 2009 Washington - Leading advocates of Armenian-American concerns in ...

But Media Matters for America has compiled a list of organized attacks that GOP leaders -- often aided by Fox News -- have conducted against media outlets based on groundless complaints of bias; those attacks have included boycotts or threatened boycotts of media outlets, efforts to revoke journalists' credentials or ban them from press planes, and ...

Christian Fong, a 32-year-old businessman who wants to be Iowa's governor, has a New Hampshire connection.

An Iowa wrestling museum has inducted several athletes into its hall of fame and honored a former high-profile politician from Illinois.

U.S. Rep. Bill Foster is leading the 14th Congressional District race in campaign contributions as third-quarter fundraising totals were released.

Date : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:57:47 +0500 ARMENIAN CAUCUS AGAINST PROTOCOLS' HISTORICAL COMMISSION http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/10/12/armenian-caucus-against-protocols-historical-commission/ October 12, 2009 WASHINGTON-On the eve of the signing of the Turkey-Armenia protocols, Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone and Mark Kirk ...

When President Obama took office, Democrats stood beside him in unity, but just as soon as Congress got to work, divisions in the party emerged.