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Congressman Mark Schauer shared his view of being a member of the U.S. House of Representatives just after voting to pass sweeping health insurance reform legislation this past weekend.

Tapping anger about stimulus spending, cap and trade, and the pending overhaul of the health-care system, Republicans are lining up to take on freshman Democrat U.S. Rep.

Vice President Joe Biden is making a trip to Detroit to raise money for two Democratic congressmen.

Washington -- The debate over a plan to overhaul the nation's health care system that passed the House this weekend is now headed to Michigan.

For Gov. Jennifer Granholm, relief is just an election away. 'It is liberating that I am term-limited and not running.

It's risky to draw lessons, warnings or signals from odd-year and special elections because they involve so few races -- isolated snapshots in a vast landscape.

Vice President Joseph Biden is heading to Michigan to help raise money for two Democratic congressmen.

With Democrats and career politicians in power, Washington spending is out of control and the country has become less prosperous and less free, Brian Rooney says.

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

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg has picked up two GOP primary challengers in his bid to regain the 7th District congressional seat.

Michigan Republicans said Wednesday they had a good candidate, worked hard and devoted lots of resources to winning back a state Senate seat in Jackson and Calhoun counties that had been held for the last seven years by a Democrat.

Republicans seem to finally have found a stopper to four years of Election Day disasters.

I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support and provide you with a short synopsis of what last night means.

Even in an off year there are plenty of big issues in the balance across West Michigan, from new representation to ordinances and millages.

Democrats unveiled an fairly weighty health care reform bill on Thursday. The more than two thousand page document has Congressmen up to their necks trying to come to some sort of compromise.

Some people might be shocked about the carnage in the NY-23 , where moderate Republican Dede Scozzafava was just forced out of the way to make room for uber-conservative Doug Hoffman, puppet of the anti-tax group Club for Growth.

With today's announcement by Dede Scozzafava, the GOP approved candidate in NY-23, that she was endorsing the Democrat, conservative concerns about her were certainly validated.

A special election Tuesday to fill the vacant state Senate seat of U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, D-Battle Creek, may give Michigan a sense of which way the political winds are blowing heading into the 2010 elections.

One or two northern Michigan races could be pivotal in the uphill quest of Democrats next year to seize control of the state Senate, now the only bastion of GOP power in the three branches of government in Lansing.

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