Rep. Tom DeLay has rarely faced a serious challenge in the 22 years he has held office, dispatching opponents with seemingly little effort. This year, after being forced out of his job as House majority leader amid corruption and campaign finance scandals, DeLay, R- Texas, has waged an aggressive campaign to defeat three opponents in Tuesday's primary election. The winner would face former Democratic congressman Nick Lampson in November.
... running (unopposed) in the Wisconsin Democratic primary on September 14, 2004, and each ad would h... example from a Texas district where Democrat Nick Lampson challenged incumbent Republican Steve Stoc...] And where do the candidates stand? Congressman Steve Stockman voted to make it easier for corpora...
To aid his re-election prospects, [Nick Lampson] has positioned himself as a moderate Democrat. During the past two years, he's compiled a more conservative record than he did during his first stint in Congress, when he represented Beaumont from 1997 to 2005. (He lost re-election in 2004 after [Tom DeLay]'s redistricting plan mangled Lampsons district. Of course, Lampson had the last laugh on that one.) He's taken the middle road in the debate over gas prices, advocating alternative energy, but also supporting increased drilling (the front page of Lampson's Web site asks visitors to "Sign My Petition to Drill") A gunrights supporter, he hailed the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Washington, D.C., ban on handguns. Lampson recently received a "Spirit of Enterprise" a...
...Houston Congressman John Culberson, an avowed conservative in a previo..., faces an energized and well-funded Democratic opponent. So too does Austin Republican Mike McCau...
... Senator Jon Corzine, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "We have outmaneuve... John Breaux, and it pits Republican Congressman David Vitter against two Democrats, State Treasure...Oklahoma . When Republican Senator Don Nickles retired, Democrats had a glimmer of hope here. The... a defeat for Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson in the Second Congressional District. And thirteen...
Texas Democrats are having trouble convincing themselves that victory is within reach this election cycle-even though the evidence is everywhere. One of the few facts that seem to unite a majority of the voting population is that they don't like Governor Rick Perry. In the state House, only four Democratic pickups (not an impossibility) could signal the end of Speaker Tom Craddick's reign. Nationally, the Democrats need 15 seats to retake the U.S. House. There could be as many as 40 contested House races at the end of the day. A few are turning into easy wins: Republican money has refused to compete with Nick Lampson for Tom DeLay's Sugar Land seat; the GOP candidate is a write-in. The felonious sleaze from the Jack Abramoff scandal has already sent Republican Congressman Bob Ney into r...
... letter to Admiral Lautenbacher, five democratic congressmen wrote that, quote, "It is alleged that...PROENZA: Congressman, even if I can point to a publication from NOAA th...
RICHMOND, Texas -- Out here, where the tendrils of Houston's growing exurbs reach for open ground, sits Rio Bend, a cluster of new houses and other facilities for parents having difficult times with troubled foster children -- difficulties like those Tom and Christine DeLay experienced with several teenagers they took into their home. Rio Bend was built by the DeLays, with help from friends, of sorts. She, an acerbic realist from south Texas, says more houses are planned by their charitable organization, but: "I hated to lose the leadership position because it helps me to raise money for those kids." Note her agreeably guileless acknowledgement that some friends of Rio Bend may not have been seized by simple altruism. She shares her husband's credo -- power is useful and should be used ...
... as the tool that supplies his nickname -- "The Hammer" -- and his faults do not include b... coming as a Republican majority into a Democratic culture" in Washington. For 40 years, he says, the... opponent this fall will be Nick Lampson, a former congressman who in 2004 lost his seat in...
WASHINGTON -- Republicans backtracked in an ethics controversy Wednesday for the second time in two weeks, deciding that two GOP members of the ethics committee should withdraw from any investigation of Tom DeLay because they contributed to the majority leader's legal defense funds. The decision followed months of Democratic complaints that Speaker Dennis Hastert appointed Republicans Lamar Smith of Texas and Tom Cole of Oklahoma to make the panel more favorable to DeLay, R-Texas.
...Also Wednesday, a former Democratic congressman said he will try to win DeLay's congressional seatt. Nick Lampson represented an adjacent district until the...
Rep. Tom DeLay faces the first hurdle to re-election today in the Republican primary, but the 11-term congressman has been campaigning since his indictment last year cost him the House majority leader post. The former powerhouse behind House Republicans' conservative agenda is running a retail political campaign in his suburban Houston district, touting his political clout -and the federal money he has guided home.
... career and he actually trails his Democratic challenger, Nick Lampson. Mr. Lampson, a four-time...
RICHMOND, Texas - Out here, where the tendrils of Houston's growing exurbs reach for open ground, sits Rio Bend, a cluster of new houses and other facilities for parents having difficult times with troubled foster children - difficulties like those Tom and Christine DeLay experienced with several teenagers they took into their home. Rio Bend was built by the DeLays, with help from friends, of sorts. She, an acerbic realist from south Texas, says more houses are planned by their charitable organization, but: "I hated to lose the leadership position because it helps me to raise money for those kids.
... as the tool that supplies his nickname - "The Hammer" - and his faults do not include be... coming as a Republican majority into a Democratic culture" in Washington. For 40 years, he says, the... opponent this fall will be Nick Lampson, a former congressman who in 2004 lost his seat in...
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