Pat Dollard

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(AP) – Virtually unknown a month ago, Christine O’Donnell of Delaware rode a surge of support from tea party activists to victory in the Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, dealing yet another setback to the GOP establishment in a campaign season full of them. A second upstart led for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire. [...]

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – A federal judge said Tuesday he will likely dismiss only parts of a lawsuit by 20 states challenging the Obama administration’s health care overhaul as unconstitutional, though he didn’t specifically say what portions.

Washington (CNN) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he will add the DREAM Act, a controversial immigration measure, to a defense policy bill the Senate will take up next week. The decision means the defense bill, which often passes with bipartisan support, will be home to two major, thorny political issues – the [...]

Politico: A Republican rout in November would usher in a class of Senate freshmen who ran on pledges of no amnesty for illegal immigrants — a changing of the guard that could doom President Barack Obama’s already faint chances of passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill in his first term. Immigration reform advocates could see [...]

The Hill: AIR FORCE ONE — White House spokesman Bill Burton said the White House strategy of elevating House Minority Leader John Boehner in recent days appears to be working. Burton told reporters on Air Force One that the assaults from White House officials on Boehner have been successful in getting across Obama’s defense of [...]

Bloomberg: by Kevin Hassert In Washington, it’s often a compliment when your opponents start to attack you. It means they think you are dangerous. Democrats unleashed a barrage against House Minority Leader John Boehner in recent weeks, which raises the question — what are they afraid of? President Barack Obama personally delivered one of the [...]

The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) intends to bring the 2011 defense authorization bill to the floor next week. The defense bill contains critical military policy as well as a provision that would repeal the ban on openly gay people serving in the military. Reid was scheduled to meet with Senate GOP Leader [...]

MSNBC: TEHRAN, Iran — Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans held in Iran for more than a year on suspicion of spying, left the country on Tuesday after she was released on bail, and arrived in Oman a few hours later where she and her mother were reunited. In brief remarks to Iran’s English-language state [...]