Richard Burr News

By DAVID LIGHTMAN WASHINGTON - Americans could pay billions of dollars more in new taxes for a few years before they're likely to see significant change in the nation's healthcare system under legislation that Congress is considering.

I hereby announce that I will not challenge Sen. Richard Burr next year. Now that we've gotten the announcement out of the way, some are weighing in on the decision by U.S. Rep.

Two years ago, several prominent North Carolina Democrats passed on the chance to challenge Sen.

The Senate is ready to begin a volatile, high-stakes health care debate that's sure to be punctuated by tense and unpredictable battles over some of the most incendiary issues in American politics.

Departments War in Iraq Hell comes home by Robert C. Koehler November 20, 2009 There's no armor, it turns out, for conscience.

Thursday the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill cosponsored by Senator Richard Burr , passed out of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

North Carolina Republican Party leaders are meeting this weekend to decide if they want to continue allowing unaffiliated voters to cast ballots in GOP primaries.

One day after Senate Democratic leaders unveiled their health-care bill, North Carolina's two senators dug in their heels on opposite sides of a debate that has now entered a new phase.

While the mentally ill this country face numerous inequities -- a lack of adequate health care and employment opportunities and ostracism from the mainstream of society are among the more obvious injustices -- it is not an exercise in discrimination but in common sense to try to keep guns out of the hands of the potentially dangerous.

Rasmussen is showing in its latest survey of Minnesota that Governor Tim Pawlenty would only have the votes of 42% of Minnesotans if he were to run for president and win the Republican nomination in 2012.

A provision in a Senate bill quietly adopted in 2008 yet to reach a vote would allow veterans in the FBI's criminal background system listed as "mentally incapacitated" to purchase firearms.

Rep. Bob Etheridge announced late 11/13 that he would not challenge Sen. Richard Burr next year, leaving two other Dems, atty/Obama fundraiser Ken Lewis and '02 candidate/Sec/State Elaine Marshall still in the race.

Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb on the Obama administration's decision to try Khaild Sheik Mohammed in federal court in New York: "I have never disputed the constitutional authority of the President to convene Article III courts in cases of international terrorism.

Remarkably, a large number of folks in North Carolina have gotten big headlines, simply by announcing that each of them is NOT going to seek the Democratic nomination to run against US Senator Richard Burr, R-NC. Most recently, Rep.

North Carolina Rep. Bob Etheridge says he will not run for the U.S. Senate next year.

The claim comes as officials in different branches of law enforcement and the military squabble over who knew what when about Maj.

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

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.

TOPICS Right Wing Stupidity From an email by ChangeCongress: We've got great news to report about our campaign shaming Sen.

President Obama has nominated two North Carolina judges to vacant seats on the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond.