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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

DNC chief: Tea party has won GOP ‘civil war’

The head of the Democratic National Committee said Wednesday that the victory of the candidate backed by the Republican Party establishment in the North Carolina Senate primary does not signal the decline of the tea party's power.

May 7, 2014
Sen. Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, one of the Senate's most endangered Democrats, was the lead sponsor of the energy bill that included the pipeline. (Associated Press)

Push for Keystone vote puts Senate Democrats in a bind in election year

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got stuck this week in the political tangle of the Keystone XL pipeline, caught between the party's environmentalist base that fiercely opposes it and vulnerable Senate Democrats from red states who want to vote to approve the long-stalled project.

May 6, 2014

Massachusetts ‘tossup’ threatens Obama agenda

The close Senate contest in usually reliably blue Massachusetts - a race that could prove crucial to the fate of President Obama's agenda - got tighter and uglier Thursday as the Democratic Party fought to hold on to the seat of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

January 15, 2010

Weiner blasts health care ‘negotiation’

As President Obama prodded Democratic congressional leaders Wednesday to finish health care legislation, Rep. Anthony Weiner gave a stern warning to the White House: "We don't like negotiating with a gun to our head."

January 13, 2010

Democrats chart dim midterm course

Facing a disgruntled electorate and bracing for losses in the November midterm elections, Democrats hope to make up ground by framing this year's campaign as a fight against Republicans who want to turn back the clock on progress.

January 13, 2010

McCain slams court decision

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Obama's tougher talk about fighting terrorism after the attempted Christmas airline bombing does not match his decision to try the bomber in civilian court.

January 11, 2010

Kaine: GOP ‘civil war’ ace in hole

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine said Democrats will do better than expected in this year's midterm elections because the Republican Party is being torn apart by an internal "civil war" with conservative activists.

January 11, 2010

McCain: Obama terror talk, policy don’t match

Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Obama's tougher talk about fighting terrorism following the attempted Christmas airliner bombing does not match his decision to try the bomber in civilian court.

January 10, 2010

‘Tea party’ head warns GOP of Fla. repeat

A founder of the "tea party" movement said Wednesday he had a warning for Republican state leaders: Back conservative candidates or else other states will suffer the same backlash that toppled Florida's Republican Party chairman this week.

January 7, 2010

Tea Party head warns GOP of Fla. repeat

A founder of the Tea Party movement said Wednesday he had a warning for Republican leaders: Back conservative candidates or else other states will suffer the same backlash that toppled Florida's Republican Party chairman this week.

January 6, 2010

Recruits for 2010 put glee in GOP

Conservative and Republican candidates who sat on the sidelines during the Democratic electoral surges of 2006 and 2008 are jumping into the 2010 midterm elections with renewed confidence after President Obama's first year in office.

January 6, 2010

Dems tout year of wins but wait for more Obama priorities

The Senate's Christmas Eve passage of health care reforms capped a year of legislative victories for the Democrats, including a $787 billion economic stimulus and measures to expand government health insurance for poor children and fortify workplace discrimination laws.

December 31, 2009

N.Y. Sen. Gillibrand appears safe in seat

Democratic freshman Sen. Kristin Gillibrand is one of her party's most vulnerable incumbents, but New York Republicans can't come up with a political heavyweight to knock her on the ropes, and her campaign gains momentum with each passing day.

December 29, 2009

Obama union push stymies contractors

President Obama's plan to force contractors to hire union workers for large government construction projects is proving easier said than done, confusing and costlier than expected.

December 27, 2009

Obama’s union push costly, confusing

President Obama's plan to force contractors to hire union workers for large government construction projects is proving easier said than done, confusing and costlier.

December 26, 2009

Democratic congressman defects to GOP

Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican on Tuesday, a startling defection from the majority party in the House that underscores the difficulties facing Democrats in midterm elections next year.

December 23, 2009

Revision gives nonprofit insurers tax breaks

Among the changes Senate Democratic leaders made to the health care package was giving nonprofit health insurance companies a limited exemption from the excise tax levied on insurers.

December 20, 2009