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An upcoming fundraiser with Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin will cost up to $10,000, according to the event invitation (PDF) obtained by the Minnesota Independent. The April 7 fundraiser will be held in downtown Minneapolis at the Hilton Hotel following a rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center, which is open to anyone who promises [...]

At today’s “Kill the Bill” rally in Washington, Rep. Michele Bachmann again spoke out against the Democrats’ health care reform plans, saying that we’re “in the bottom of the ninth” and tea party activists have “won every inning.” But her colleague, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, didn’t sound so sure.

A group of Republicans, including Rep. John Kline, will meet with reporters this afternoon to protest the Democrats’ plans to eliminate tens of billions of dollars in government subsidies to private companies that lend to students.

Rep. Keith Ellison spoke at the National Iranian American Council last week about the struggles facing the Iranian people as they protest the current regime. Ellison, Congress’ first Muslim, told attendees that freedom should be supported but not enforced.

A former DFL state senator told the St. Cloud Times over the weekend that he’s challenging Rep. Collin Peterson as an independent. Former Sen. Gene Waldorf was the darling of the anti-abortion movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he sponsored legislation that would ban all abortion in Minnesota except in the cases [...]

Rep. James Oberstar, who has in the past hinted at opposition to the Senate version of the health reform bill because it isn’t strict enough on abortion, told the Associated Press today that he may vote for the bill.

Sen. Tarryl Clark has a new mailer out in the 6th Congressional District that aims at wooing DFL activists. “Washington isn’t working for us and neither is Michele Bachmann,” it reads. “We need leadership that creates jobs and opportunity, not headaches and headlines,” the mailer says of Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on the air with talk radio host Chris Baker on Friday to speak out against health care reform. Bachmann said that if the House used the “self-executing route” to pass the Senate version — a tactic used many times by Republicans when they were the majority — then each American will [...]

Rep. Keith Ellison is among a number of progressive Democrats backing a standalone public option in the U.S. House. The “Public Option Act,” also known as the “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act,” would allow anyone to purchase Medicare coverage so long as they can afford it. The bill was introduced by Rep. Alan Grayson, [...]

Before a crowd holding signs that read “Damn this federal government to hell” and “The citizens must declare war on their immoral, corrupt, Marxist government,” Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann addressed around 1,000 people Saturday at a “Kill the Bill” rally against Democrats’ health care reform measures at the State Capitol.