Elton Gallegly News

Documents detail the terms of a discounted mortgage loan received by U.S. Rep. Howard McKeon from the now-defunct Countrywide Financial Corp.

Roughly nine months ahead of the year's high-stakes elections, Rep. Steny Hoyer is in California this weekend stumping for House Democrats.

State Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, is running for re-election to the 44th Assembly District, the Committee to Re-Elect Assemblyman Jeff Gorell announced Friday.

Akiva Werbalowsky of Ojai waits in the courtyard of the Ventura County Government Center on Thursday to hold a news conference.

The Greater Oxnard Organization of Democrats, or the G.O.O.D. club, will host the Democrat candidates for the newly formed 26th Congressional District for a debate at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Rep. Charlie Gonzalez confirmed that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel has already asked him about the $186,000 he reported in the bank at the end of December.

When House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon became ensnared by the Countrywide mortgage scandal last month, his senior staff came together for a strategy session to decide how to throw colleagues, potential challengers and former employees under the bus.

California will lose a measure of clout in Congress after November's election no matter which party best exploits the state's freshly redistricted regions and election rules.

California will lose a measure of clout in Congress after November's election no matter which party best exploits the state's new districts and election rules.

New campaign fundraising reports have underscored the competition resulting from California's new redistricting process, which was done for the first time by an independent citizens panel.

Longtime California Republican Rep. David Dreier raised just over $10,000 in the final quarter of 2011, a figure that is certain to heighten speculation that he will retire this year.

State Republican Party Chairman Tom Del Beccaro endorsed state Sen. Tony Strickland in California's new 26th district, which both parties are targeting.

On Sunday we reported that the Sheriff's Department arrested three men suspected of stealing copper wire from the Moorpark Southern California Edison plant.

I did any analysis of the jungle primary before, now I'm analyzing the general election and some of the previous history of the seat.

Naval Base Ventura County could be in the firing line once again as the Pentagon gears up for another round of military base closures.

In the latest developments in the fast-changing campaign for Ventura County's new 26th Congressional District, the County Republican Central Committee has unanimously endorsed Sen.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee questioned the panel's chairman on Wednesday about why he won't disclose details about lawmakers under investigation for receiving home loans through Countrywide Financial's VIP program.A In a letter sent Wednesday, Rep.

Rep. Elton Gallegly thought President Barack Obama gave the most overtly political State of the Union address Gallegly has heard in his 25 years of listening to suchA speeches.

J.S. West & Co, an egg producer in Modesto, has built barns with an enriched colony hen housing system similar to what would be required nationwide by a bill bill sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers.

Oregon Rep.Kurt Schrader is one of several legislators who introduced a bill today that would improve the lives of egg-laying hens.