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Veterans are honored during Sunday s Freedom Celebration at the Church of the Nazarene.

Republicans may not regain control of Congress as early as next year, according to Tom Lucero, a GOP candidate for Colorado's 4th Congressional District post.

Republicans believe a handful of junior House Democrats may have taken a career-ending vote by supporting the controversial energy bill last week and are planning to launch an ad campaign in targeted districts to try to seal their fate.

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WASHINGTON - Republican House incumbent Marilyn Musgrave faced stiff odds in an effort to keep her seat in 2008 in the form of a diversifying district, a well-funded challenger and an unpopular President George W. Bush.

Candidates, political party committees and interest groups all raised and spent more money in 2007-08 than in any previous election cycle, according to a major new report from the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University.

Betsy Markey has come a long way from the Colorado coffee shop she owned and operated.

Experts and lawmakers differed sharply in testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee over whether the institution of marriage is under judicial assault and can be preserved only through a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's donation of her remaining campaign money to a program run by her new employer appears to comply with campaign finance laws, two former chairmen of the Federal Election Commission said.

The congressional sponsors of a constitutional amendment that would prohibit same-sex marriage announced new wording yesterday aimed at building political support for the measure by easing concerns that it would block states from allowing civil unions of gay or lesbian couples.

Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809, was scheduled to speak in Salida yesterday.

Today the Susan B. Anthony List Education Fund ) launched its first project, the Young Leaders Board, a new outreach effort to engage young people in the pro-life movement.

Former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is donating $50,000 left over from her campaign money to fund a new effort to engage young people in the anti-abortion movement, she announced today.

Dethroned Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave vowed revenge on the left in a fundraising letter in which she quotes the Bible and portrays herself as a political victim who stood up for family values.

In 2006, State Sen. Mady Reiter - a two-term Republican from Shoreview - was defeated by DFLer Sandy Rummel in a tight race.

Former Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave of Fort Morgan, center, speaks with Logan County Assessor Peggy Michaels, left, and Conrad Bostron, chairman of the Logan County Republican Party, following the Republican Breakfast at the Ramada Inn Thursday morning.

An interncecine war between the professional political consultants who run the Washington GOP establishment and insurgent conservatives beyond the Washington Beltway, who are fed up with seeing their money go to anti-life, big-spending, tax-hiking people like Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chafee.

Back in November, Colorado Republicans took an important first step toward regaining their former status as the state's dominant political party: They lost.

Rep. Betsy Markey and Sens. Michael Bennet and Mark Udall are asking that federal bank bailout money be sent to small Colorado banks to help Northern Colorado farmers.