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Former Indiana Rep. Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, wants consequences for lawmakers' votes on economic issues, and he says that the group's fundraising capacity to fund conservative candidates in Republican primaries "can be the consequences."

It was a moment of unintentional comedy earlier this year when newly appointed U.S. Sen.

It's official: the Club for Growth has endorsed conservative upstart Marco Rubio in Florida's Senate race, over moderate Gov.

A lot of attention was focused, deservedly, on last week's congressional race in New York's 23rd District, where a conservative revolt against the anointed Republican nominee helped elect a Democrat to that seat for the first time since the 1870s.

Love her or hate her, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is at the peak of her political power, and she seems to be reveling in the high drama of the moment.

After picking up a key endorsement Monday that could pump big money into his campaign, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio set to work on another win that would give Charlie Crist a big, symbolic blow in his home county.

This is a rush transcript from "The Journal Editorial Report," November 7, 2009.

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Club for Growth PAC today endorsed Marco Rubio in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in Florida.

Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, is seeking a fourth term. But he faces considerable pressure from the GOP far right, which has been targeting moderates nationally.

Wingnuts of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but election ... after election ... after election.

Here's a Q and A with ex-Rep. Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, whose endorsement of Doug Hoffman in New York's 23rd congressional district precipitated Hoffman's quick rise to national prominence.

After pumping more than $1 million into an upstate New York House race to elect the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman, the Club for Growth is on the hunt again.

A wildly unpredictable race for a House seat in Upstate New York gave conservatives across the country a reason to cheer - and look forward to the 2010 midterm election - even before polls closed Tuesday.

Chocola said his mind is still open on Kelly Ayotte, the former New Hampshire Attorney General who is running for an open Senate seat next year in whata s shaping up to be a crowded primary.

Club for Growth and Club for Growth PAC will launch a $300,000 television ad campaign tomorrow in the special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District.

Jackie Walorski is seriously considering a run for U.S. Congress. The Republican state representative from Elkhart announced in a statement Wednesday that she has registered an exploratory committee for a campaign against U.S. Rep.

Opinionline Archives Opposing view: GOP offers clear alternative Republicans win when they campaign and govern as conservatives By Chris Chocola It takes two to tango, and President Barack Obama and the Democratic congressional leadership repeatedly have said "no" to working with Republicans who have offered to compromise.

Responding to the Scozzafava's campaign's allegation that its TV-radio campaign is dishonest because the legislation it refers to as the "huge Paterson tax-and-spend budget" for 2008-2009 was negotiated almost entirely by Eliot Spitzer, the Club for Growth cited news reports citing Paterson's signing of the document and accepting the standard ...

The fiscal conservative Club for Growth PAC has backed up its endorsement of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman with $250,000 in media buys around the district, including the ad above and a similarly themed radio spot.