Kline stumps against another public option
As the House prepares to vote on a bill that would largely do away with private lending in higher education, Rep. John Kline railed yesterday against the expansion of a “public option” in the student...
View ArticleBachmann elated at House vote on ACORN
The House voted today to cut all federal funding from ACORN, a cause Rep. Michele Bachmann has been championing for several months. She introduced a bill in June to block federal housing dollars from...
View ArticleBachmann speaks to conservative conference
Rep. Michele Bachmann reiterated many of her health care views to a conservative conference here in Washington this morning, calling for less state barriers for purchasing health insurance. Bachmann...
View Article“Michele Bachmann” makes it to SNL
Rep. Michele Bachmann (actually, a reasonable satiric facsimile) made an appearance on Saturday Night Live’s Thursday in a sketch that lampooned Republicans’ response to President Obama’s health care...
View ArticleFranken’s second bill targets product labelling
Sen. Al Franken introduced legislation today which would require cleaning products to display a label with all of their ingredients. Franken’s second bill, the Household Product Labeling Act, expands...
View ArticleFact check: Bachmann’s office and improper franking
There has been some buzz lately surrounding a newsletter sent using taxpayer money by Rep. Michele Bachmann to an address in Colorado. Under House franking rules, members of Congress may not use...
View ArticleOops…
Even as they run for re-election this year, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman are widely considered to be likely DFL candidates for governor in 2010. And even though neither...
View ArticleColeman’s Bachmann pitch: Minnesotans denied a ‘fair vote’ last November
Democrats are positively a titter at a new fundraising appeal for U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann signed by deposed Senator Norm Coleman, a potential GOP gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota. Nearing the...
View ArticleWould-be governor (maybe) rips governor
In addition to thoroughly ripping former Viking Randy Moss during an MSNBC interview this week, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak took some well-aimed shots at Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s presumed presidential...
View ArticleNew political blog
After four years, the Star Tribune political team has left The Big Question for a new blog: Hot Dish Politics. Please join us there and subscribe to the RSS and Twitter feeds for the latest in...
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