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By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - While it won't exactly be a race to the courthouse, Rep.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday to provide Americans in the path of dangerous storms with life-saving warnings.

For Texas lawmakers in both parties, President Barack Obama's plan for Afghanistan offered something for everyone and not enough for many.

Phil Riddle editor@weatherforddemocrat.com Local politicians and wanna-be office holders may make their election wishes official as filing for spots in the March 2 party primary ballots opens Thursday.

By ANNA M. TINSLEY Republicans and Democrats have their prey in sight as they target races to contest in the 2010 elections.But for now, the focus of many is not on members of the other party.It's on officeholders within their own party - whether Republican or Democrat - who they say have strayed from the party base on hot-button issues, ...

Mike Brasovan, Congressional Candidate for District 12, has been endorsed by Pat Carlson.

Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb .

Blogroll Archives Posted on: November 18, 2009 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton Marcy Wheeler does a brilliant job of mining the transcripts of the healthcare reform debate to show that Republican legislators were literally reading from a script written for them by lobbyists from Genentech.

Texas Needs Healthcare Reform! A recent Washington Post article shows that Texas seems to have the greatest proportion of Congressional districts with more than 25% of people uninsured.

A memorial service for the victims of last week's shooting rampage is underway at Fort Hood in Texas.

U.S. Rep. Michael Conaway of Midland was among 16 Texas Republicans who sailed to renomination last year, unopposed in their party's March primary.

By MARIA RECIO, ANNA M. TINSLEY, DAVE MONTGOMERY and AMAN BATHEJA Two local conservatives are taking the reins of two established political groups.

One day after a shooter opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey Jr.

By ANNA M. TINSLEY As Congress debates overhauling the nation's healthcare system, some state leaders hope that whatever legislation passes will include a provision allowing Texas to opt out of the plan.Although its not yet part of the massive Democratic-led plan, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said there will be a provision letting states ...

Some local Tea Party protesters want to do for local Republicans what their allies have done for upstate New York.

President Barack Obama on Thursday called the mass shooting at Fort Hood "a horrific outburst of violence." Other leaders from Texas are also reacting to Thursday's shootings at the nation's largest army post near Killeen.

Democrats in Congress who drafted a healthcare bill to be voted on this week have no faith in one of its major components, said Congresswoman Kay Granger.

New York's District 23 Congressional race should send a clear signal to the Republican party that conservative candidates can win elections, and stand up for the values that the party should support now and in the future, says Mike Brasovan, Republican Congressional candidate for Texas District 12.

Crystal Brown cbrown@weatherforddemocrat.com Residents of all ages attended a town hall meeting in Springtown Saturday afternoon to hear from United States House Representative Kay Granger.

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - For the Republican lawmakers who represent Tarrant County in Congress, the House Democratic healthcare bill is too big, too costly and too much government, a message that seems to be resonating with Democratic Rep.