Memo to Dallas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions: Think twice before making comparisons. Sessions, who famously compared his own party to the Taliban, is taking heat from liberal groups and Democrats for a comment reportedly made last week in a debate...
Late last night, the House narrowly passed its health care bill. Read about it here, here and here. The legislation would extend health coverage to 36 million Americans, according to the Congressional Budget Office. As you probably know, Texas leads...
Just to follow on Dave Michaels' earlier posting about Rep. Chet Edwards' announcement that he'll vote against the Democrats' health care bill... The politics of his decision, and the reactions to it, are interesting. Edwards' district is Republican enough that...
Corporate accountant David Smith will announce next week that he's challenging incumbent Pete Sessions in the March Republican primary. Smith, active in the conservative tea party movement, says Sessions has not followed the conservative staples of the GOP. Smith has...
From the White House to Texas, elected officials expressed their support for the families of those killed and wounded in the Fort Hood attack. Here is a sample of their reaction to the tragedy. President Barack Obama: "My immediate thoughts...
The special election to fill New York's vacant 23rd congressional seat is perhaps the earliest test of the GOP's chances to reclaim the House in 2010. Yet the GOP candidate, Dede Scozzafava, has struggled to line up Republican support,...
With the president hoping to regain traction on health care with tonight's speech to Congress, Republicans countered with a bit of street theater this afternoon - using an ambulance to deliver petitions from Americans who reject the Obama version of...
The hottest ticket in town? A health care discussion with Dallas Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Democrat, and Pete Sessions, a Republican. So many people have requested tickets to Monday's "Charting America's Health Care Future" event--nearly 900 as of yesterday--that...
It is arguable whether one politician should be held responsible for the remarks of another. Certainly, both parties have used that tactic to embarrass adversaries whose allies said something inflammatory. This afternoon, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee challenged Dallas Rep....
Democrats have been itching for a chance to tie Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions to former Speaker Newt Gingrich's assertion that the woman hoping to become the Supreme Court's first Hispanic is a "racist." They're hoping to take advantage of the...
Now Pete Sessions is a Democratic fundraising tool. At least that's the take from Congressional Quarterly, which reports that Florida Rep. Alan Grayson launched an attack on North Dallas' GOP congressman in a fundraising email to supporters. Grayson, a Democrat...
The NRCC press shop -- on a mission of damage control after Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions' accused President Obama of willfully trying to drive Americans out of work and push down the stock market- has issued a statement in Sessions'...
Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions, a member of the GOP House leadership, has made a startling allegation: President Barack Obama wants to push unemployment up and the stock market down, as part of a premeditated assault on capitalism. Sessions asserted "that...
So what does Rep. Pete Sessions, actress Zoe Saldana and Dallas Morning News government editor Ryan Rusak have in common? You guessed it. They all party at Tao in Las Vegas. In February Sessions held a fund-raiser at the...
One of Washington's time honored rituals is that when a donor turns out to be a sleaze ball, or even an alleged sleaze ball, beneficiaries distance themselves -typically by donating the amount received by their campaign committees to charity....
You knew it had to happen: Stephen Colbert has had his way with Dallas Congressman Pete Session's "Taliban" comment. (Which, of course, we told you about here, here, here and here. This one you've got to see for yourself: .cc_box...
We promise, we're not trying to pile on. But the Hotline has posted audio of their interview in which Dallas Congressman Pete Sessions compared the GOP -- his own side -- to the Taliban. And since Sessions declined our interview...
First, there was that unfortunate little Taliban comment. (And if you'd like to clear that up, Congressman, our Washington Bureau awaits your call back.) Now, he's been caught in a minor traffic faux pas in DC. I guess when you're...
The Texans responsible for electing more Republicans to Congress in the next two years are offering praise for the party's new chairman, Michael Steele, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland and the GOP's first African-American chairman. Steele won in the...
How cold was it? Cold enough to see your breath and put an ache in your fingertips. But different members of Congress offered a mixed review. Rep. Gene Green, a Houston Democrat wearing a cowboy hat and recovering afterward inside...
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