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Instituting a war surtax Nov. 23: Playbook: A If President Barack Obama chooses to send more troops to Afghanistan, should the U.S. government raise taxes to pay for it? Rep.

Union-backed groups are pressuring a handful of renegade House Democrats from New York and New Jersey to back the party's efforts to overhaul the health care system.

Bennie Thompson, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, will be visiting the 29th Congressional District with Congressman Eric Massa this weekend.

The 29th has seen a few close races, but neither Randy Kuhl nor Eric Massa poisoned the well the way Doug Hoffman just did.

As the U.S. Senate gets closer to debating a health care reform bill, there is much troubling news about what reform could cost.

As I cruise the liberal blogosphere I've been seeing a lot of ads attacking Rep.

President Obama has repeatedly stated that his stimulus package has "saved or created" hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The Dryden Theater hosted a public forum on health care justice November 15, 2009.

ROCHESTER -- One of three New York Democrats to vote against a health care reform bill in the House of Representatives defended his position Sunday, saying the legislation passed by his Democratic colleagues will do more harm than good.

When it comes to hiring and paying staffers, congressional representatives from upstate New York and the Hudson Valley take different approaches.

WASHINGTON -- As Senate Democrats prepare to bring a health care bill to the floor this month, they might want to reflect on comments made by Democrats from New York and other states who voted against the version the House passed last weekend.

" Two local Congressmen are weighing in on the question of whether it is time to pull troops out of Afghanistan.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been likened to the Vietnam War. Despite the concerns about the cost of the two current conflicts today, returning soldiers are not treated with the disdain that many Vietnam vets met when they came home.

The motion of the ocean aside, here's a quick guide to some Democratic House members that Republicans believe are genuinely vulnerable in a year when President Obama isn't on the ballot.

Albany, N.Y. /Washington, D.C. - A sweeping health care reform bill is now in the hands of the Senate after the House passed it late Saturday night.

Today Congressman Eric Massa outlined his reasons for voting against H.R. 3962 on Saturday night.

Perhaps the most symbolic fact about why it's so difficult to pass rational health care reform in this country involves U.S. Rep.

There would be no clapping from five New York congressmen. Over the weekend, while you were out enjoying the fall foliage, your representatives in Congress were working overtime to pass a historic health-care-reform bill.

But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.

So much for the political power of the public option. Reps. Baron Hill of Indiana, elected with the class of 2006 that gave Democrats the House majority, and Dan Maffei of New York, who rode to office with President Obama on a Democratic wave last year, were among the last lawmakers to make up their minds on Saturday's historic health care vote.