The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Wednesday the undecided special election in New York’s 20th congressional district showed the potency of the Democrats’ economic message and the perils of the GOP’s stiffly oppositional stance toward the president.
House Democrats keep clawing away at those troublesome AIG bonuses, with little evidence that the Senate is going to fast track a bill to rip away the payouts.
Flying in the face of the White House — and perhaps last November’s election results — House Republicans proposed Wednesday to recall much of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan and then go forward with new business tax cuts and a five-year freeze on non-defense spending.