While most eyes are focused on Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District and the spectacle that is already Rep. Michele Bachmann vs. Sen. Tarryl Clark, some political watchers see a potential battle in Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District between freshmen Republican Rep. Erik…
Rep. Betty McCollum took to the House floor Tuesday afternoon to remember the victims of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. She chastised members of Congress and the talking heads in the media for fanning the flames…
Though President Obama has not yet signed it into law, Rep. Michele Bachmann introduced legislation on Monday to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform package passed by Congress on Sunday. Text of Bachmann’s…
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s political opponents have targeted her busy national travel and media schedule saying it has hampered her ability to work for her district. One of those criticisms is that she’s missed a large number of votes. The Minnesota Independent analyzed Bachmann’s record to determine if those charges stand up to scrutiny.
“There’s not one legitimate argument against the public option except that it cuts into corporate profits,” Rep. Keith Ellison tells the Minnesota Independent. While he’s hopeful about the prospects for passage of a public option, he says “corporatists” are working to sabotage the public option.
Minnesota’s most outspoken member of Congress, Republican Michele Bachmann, took to the House floor Monday evening to lambaste Democrats on everything from gay marriage and abortion to taxes, immigration and Mountain Dew. At one point she said the State…
Rep. Keith Ellison is among a slew of Democrats who founded a new populist caucus in the U.S. House of Representatvies, the Iowa Independent reports. The caucus was the brainchild…
Minnesota’s U.S. Representative-elect for the Third District, Republican Erik Paulsen, ran one of the best five House campaigns in the country, according to the Washington Post blog The Fix. Paulsen “beat back the anti-Republican trend,” writes Chris Cillizza, “by focusing on his own accomplishments in the state legislature.” The Fix tracked the Third District contest closely throughout the campaign season as one of the nation’s most competitive congressional contests. But in several ways Cillizza’s summary this morning doesn’t exactly square with how home-state observers might recall the race.
Newspaper election endorsements are out — some packing a wallop as bracing as a stiff winter wind in October, others playing it as safe as pre-Halloween trick-or-treating at a local strip mall. Here’s a roundup of candidate preferences for the U.S. Senate and House that Minnesota papers have so far put in print. The recession sees the major dailies’ editorialists cutting back on costly opinions — either picking favorites without naming the issues they like them for, as both the PiPress and Star Tribune have done in the U.S. Senate race, or beating a wholesale retreat from making a pick at all, as the St. Paul Pioneer Press has done in the presidential contest.
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza places Minnesota’s two hottest congressional contests back to back in his list of the 26th–50th U.S. House seats most likely to swap parties — a category consisting of 24 seats currently occupied by…
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