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BRANDON, MS Following the U.S. House's narrow passage of the hotly debated healthcare bill, the Mississippi Tea Party gathered Sunday in Brandon.

Despite efforts by House Democratic leaders to corral members of their caucus, Rep.

JACKSON a ' Simpson County's Republican contingent got a bit bigger today. At a press conference at the Mississippi Republican Party building in Jackson, chairman Brad White announced that seven of the county's elected officials were switching their party affiliations from Democrat to Republican.

Rep. Gregg Harper of Mississippi's third congressional district says a government takeover of health care would be harmful to the state and senior citizens.

Current healthcare reform proposals debated in the U.S. Congress would raise health insurance rates for Mississippi families and businesses and push affordable healthcare out of reach, Gov.

While hunters, sportsmen, and trappers across the country are actually helping 'liberal democrats' to pass climate legislation, GOP Representative Gregg Harper is talking about murdering them.

Meet Mississippi Republican Representative Gregg Harper. When explaining what the Congressional Sportsmena s Caucus does, he said: "We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition." And while this may seem like just a bad joke, Republican Harper does represent a district where 3 civil rights activists ...

Yet somehow the NFL found him controversial.It's no wonder the Secret Service is overwhelmed by death threats against the President.

GOP Rep. from district where civil rights workers were lynched talks about shooting 'tree-hugging Democrats.' In a new interview with Rep.

Some of the nation's top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight on the biggest question burning up the blogosphere and cable news airwaves on Friday, Oct.

The House ethics committee met privately on Thursday and is expected to issue an announcement about its sprawling Rangel investigation later in the day.

Several months ago, twin sisters Ivy and Iris Lawrence, 54, of Morton discovered they have one more thing in common: unemployment.

Clarion-Ledger Correspondent OXFORD - If a federal complaint filed here on Thursday is successful, the U.S. House of Representatives could drastically increase to give Mississippi and other states more representation, but at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers.

U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper continued the bevy of elected leaders to visit the City Beautiful Thursday as he met with the editorial board of the Laurel Leader-Call. Earlier in the day, Harper visited the Rogers-Green House to meet with members of the community.

When Trent Lott represented Mississippi in the U.S. House and later, during his 18 years in the U.S. Senate, his colleagues, when asked about Lott, would invariably respond, 'He knows how to count votes.' Lott's attribute was gauging the political landscape.

The health care debate hit Jackson on Saturday. Hundreds of people came out to a Mississippi Tea Party barbecue to hear from Rep.

President Obama is trying to win over conservative parts of the country with his health care plan.

Populous South Mississippi is always fertile ground for votes and hopefuls for 2011 gubernatorial elections have started popping up in Biloxi, Wiggins and points south of Hattiesburg.

The health care debate hit Jackson on Saturday. Hundreds of people came out to a Mississippi Tea Party barbecue to hear from Rep.

U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., will address health care reform during a barbecue in Jackson this weekend.