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U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the first woman speaker when Democrats controlled the chamber from 2007 to 2011, said today she will stay for another two-year term as leader of her party’s caucus.
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Democrats are turning to a bench of former lawmakers to help win the 25 Republican seats they need to gain the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s election.
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Trying to win a second term in the U.S. House, Republican Nan Hayworth of New York has almost tripled her fundraising.
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Representative Steve Israel , chairman of the Democrats’ House campaigns, said his party has a chance to reclaim the chamber in 2012 by playing on voters’ “buyer’s remorse” about majority Republicans and their plan to privatize Medicare.
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U.S. Representative Barney Frank’s decision to retire at the end of his term will leave House Democrats without one of their most skillful debaters and their chief negotiator on banking and finance.
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U.S. Representative Tim Walz estimates at the beginning of each new House term how much money he thinks he’ll need to win re-election the following year and when he plans to raise it.
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Several presidential candidates have called the 2012 U.S. elections the most important ever. That seems a reach: more important than 1860 or 1932? Yet there is no doubt that the stakes are high this year, not just in the contest for the White House, but also in the most crucial congressional elections in memory.
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U.S. Representative Steve Israel, chairman of House Democrats’ re-election efforts, said he thinks his party will come “in range” of retaking majority control of the House of Representatives in the November election.
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The road to a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives used to run through the industrial battleground states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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The House Democratic fundraising committee heads into the remaining months of the midterm campaign with more than twice as much as cash as its Republican counterpart after a series of victories in special elections.
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