Representative Heath Shuler News

A former state senator said Tuesday he won't seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Sen.

Rep. Heath Shuler doesn't play football anymore, but his recent vote against a health care reform bill may make him feel like he's once again scrambling to evade a wall of blitzing linebackers.

Rachel Maddow runs down the list for us of C-Street family members who also voted for Bart Stupak's anti-abortion amendment yesterday.

After an intense three-month campaign for the votes of North Carolina's House members, players in the health care debate including business, labor and the administration are now likely to focus their full attention on Sen.

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry.

Democrats in Congress are celebrating after health care reform passed in the U.S. House over the weekend.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 11:04 p.m. Reaction from local politicos to the news that the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215 was swift, and in some cases, sharp.

The netroots have given Larry Kissell $485,795 , over the past couple of cycles.

Shorty after the votes were tallied, the lists came out . In North Carolina, only 5 out of 13 representatives voted for the bill while only 5 out of 13 representatives are Republicans.

I received a brochure from Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC asking me to tell Senator Kay Hagan to vote against the public option in the health care bills currently discussed in congress.

Surely, the chants this week of "Kill! The! Bill!" from thousands of conservative protesters outside Congress floated up to the ears of North Carolina House members who were inside considering their views on health care.

Dr. Ed Morris came to Washington on Tuesday eager to explain how soaring health care costs have hurt his small business in Franklin.

Congressional ethics investigators have concluded that North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler did not act inappropriately while a residential development that he was involved in sought lake-access rights from the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Blue Dog Democrats face a dilemma this weekend: Should they oppose legislation they believe is flawed, or move the bill out of the House in the hopes of it changing in conference? That core question was on the minds of many of the 52 fiscally conservative Democrats after a meeting Tuesday with Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional ...

The Hill has compiled the whip count for the Pelosi bill coming to the floor in 2 days.

Jim Costa's path to reelection isn't the toughest among House Democrats, but that doesn't mean the California Democrat feels safe voting for a House health care overhaul bill that he says is too costly and does too little to help rural districts like his own.

When tons of dirt and rock came sliding down a Haywood County mountainside, it closed off 20 miles of a vital regional highway, opened a flood of concern for Western North Carolina's tourism industry and sent politicians scrambling for cleanup money.

CNN's Roland Martin picked up where Anderson Cooper left off on Monday's AC360, claiming that there's "the beginnings of a civil war" in the GOP and that Tea Party protesters "want to radicalize the right" in the party.

Rep. Heath Shuler talks with apple growers about possible changes in how insurance on their crops will be calculated during a meeting at Jimmy Nix and Sons packing house in Edneyville.

Dede Scozzafava's decision to endorse the Democrat and not the far-right Conservative party candidate in NY-23 will probably not help Bill Owens, who was a long shot to win a +30 Republican seat.