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Members of the GOP leadership call California Assemblyman Van Tran a "fresh face" for the party.

The CNN Washington Bureaua TMs morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world.

As some aging Republicans have become entirely too divisive, Rep. Kevin McCarthy has managed to get broad support from a party hoping for a big win in 2010.

With visions of a Republican majority dancing in his head, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California is driving the back roads of America these days, looking for fresh faces to represent his party in 2010.

Top policymakers will address key technology issues at the 2010 International CES with government officials slated to speak, including Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Iowa will dodge some of the most painful budget cuts that threaten state government next year by implementing deep saving proposals, Gov.

As Democrats in Congress are working to reform the financial regulatory system, Republicans are doing their best to protect their fat-cat lobbyists and special-interests [ Roll Call , 12/8/2009]: In a call to arms, House Republican leaders met with more than a 100 lobbyists at the Capitol Visitors Center on Tuesday afternoon to try to fight back ...

Property insurance rate deregulation is back, as promised, before the Legislature in the spring.

A story in Monday's Sacramento Bee questioned my rationale for seeking an independent National Academy of Science review of the biological opinions that govern water pumping for farms in the San Joaquin Valley.

Depressed Democrats Polling in Ohio and Connecticut spells trouble for Democrats.

California and other financially strapped states will lose tens of millions of federal dollars that they spend to jail illegal immigrants charged with crimes, under Congress' latest spending bill.

A thistle to state Sen. Paul McKinley for suggesting kids wouldn't be tagged for 'special education' programs if they had just learned to read earlier.

Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, who knows his way around the golden dome better than most, says he had a simple rule when his party was in the minority: "If you can achieve good public policy, do it.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tours a solar panel installation on the roof of a Sam's Club store in Glendora, Calif., earlier this year.

That California and Texas still lead the United States in generating renewable energy probably is no surprise.

Congressman Alan Mollohan, who had no opposition from the GOP in eight of his 14 election bids, could have more than a half dozen Republicans vying to unseat him in 2010.

Many Republicans have already announced their interest in running for the seat currently held by Rep.

Lawrence County will participate in a mandatory statewide election recount tomorrow.

A Californian couple must have got the shock of their life when they returned home to find an oak tree lying right through the middle of their house.

A COUPLE got the shock of their lives when they returned home to find a 90ft crane had cut their house in two.