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In a political year that promises to put North Carolina in the national spotlight, Monday kicks off the election filing date for candidates.

The political campaigning season in Burke County will pick up soon as the filing period opens at noon Monday.

Money was pouring into the race for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District even before Democratic Rep.

Gov. Bev Perdue heads a list of Democratic incumbents who won't seek re-election this year, but the Democratic Party in North Carolina is upbeat about its prospects, taking the position that the surprising turn of events is not a disaster, but an opportunity.

Hoping to mend their fractured image ahead of the fall election, the U.S. House of Representatives came together in near-unanimity Thursday to pass a popular bill outlawing insider trading by Congress' own members and employees.

North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry received a low score for his environmental votes by the League of Conservation Voters.

Candidate filing for the statewide May 8 primary officially opens at noon on Feb.

THUMBS UP to rare expressions of bipartisan cooperation on Capitol Hill. Over the past few days, Republicans and Democrats have stood together to advance important pieces of legislation.

As Congress takes up legislation to ban insider-trading by its members and employees, local constituents will be paying special attention to their representatives' votes on the bill, set to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives by next week.

Eric Holder faced off against Republicans on February 2, denying any sort of government cover-up of the Fast and Furious operation , the latest in a series of Gun Walking programs that began in 2006 in .

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Attorney General Eric Holder, seeking to cool tensions with Republicans over the botched Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation, said the alleged killers of a U.S. border patrol agent are close to being arrested.

Funds raised and funds on hand for candidates in the redrawn 8th District. All are Republican except incumbent Democrat Rep.

Republicans on Tuesday welcomed Richard Cordray to his first Senate hearing as director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with a polite warning: Your time on the job could be short.

Fannie and Freddie received $169 billion dollars in taxpayer funded bailouts after the mortgage crash.

Crowdfunding is yet another example of America's pent-up demand to "crowd together" for daily deals via GroupOn, to 'Like" and "Friend" people via Facebook, to content share by tweeting and re-tweeting on Twitter and so on.

Whether the conservative Texas Republican will give up his post as conference chairman, the No.

Congressional Republicans are looking to employ a number of tactics, both conventional and novel, to push back against President Obama for his recent quartet of recess appointments.

N.C. Rep. Patsy Keever, D-Buncombe, is cheered as she announced her candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 10th congressional district seat now held by Patrick McHenry in front of the Gaston County Courthouse on Thursday afternoon.

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue's decision Thursday to forgo reelection is the latest ominous sign that the ever-shifting political winds are no longer at Democrats' backs in the Tar Heel State.