Justice openly disagrees with Obama in speech
The man in the House chamber openly disagreeing with President Barack Obama as he spoke to Congress wasn’t an over-the-top Republican or a seething Democrat. He was a Supreme Court justice, Samuel Alito.
After Obama speech, health bill logjam remains
The morning after President Barack Obama urged Congress to finish the job on health care overhaul, a key moderate Democrat on Thursday likened the sweeping legislation to a patient hovering near death.
House majority leader: No health care quick fix
There are no quick fixes for President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the No. 2 House Democrat said Tuesday, as supporters agonized over whether to move the bill forward or hit the pause button until political resistance subsides.
Dem defeat in Mass. reshapes 2010 landscape
Former Massachusetts Treasurer Joe Malone said Thursday he expects to run against an incumbent congressional Democrat this fall, part of a wave of political recalibrations occurring nationally after Republican Scott Brown’s upset win in the special ele…
Mass. race draws millions to pay for ads
Millions in campaign cash are flooding into Massachusetts in the final days of the race to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat, funding an all-out ad war between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.