Articles filed under 8th Congressional District
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Why was Illinois Capitol on 'SNL'? And more politicsOct 11, 2013 5:30 am - The new Illinois House Republican leadership team brings a few new suburban lawmakers onto the squad and leaves another out. State Rep. Jim Durkin of Western Springs, th...
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Republican congressional candidate voted in Democratic primariesOct 10, 2013 10:00 am - Republican candidate for Congress Manju Goel of Aurora, the first GOP challenger to U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth to emerge publicly, voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 a...
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While shutdown loomed, so did fundraising deadlineSep 30, 2013 11:00 pm - As the clock ran down on the federal government budget Monday, midnight also represented federal lawmakers' third-quarter political fundraising deadline. The two events ...
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Goel announces 8th congressional candidacySep 09, 2013 5:30 am - Taking aim at “Obamacare” and the national debt, 8th Congressional District candidate Manju Goel outlined her campaign platform Sunday during the Northwest Suburban Repu...
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Duckworth: U.S. shouldn’t go alone in SyriaAug 30, 2013 7:53 am - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth says the U.S. shouldn’t go it alone when it comes to military action in Syria. In a statement Friday, the Hoffman Estates Democrat had strong w...
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Walsh weighing a bid for Durbin's U.S. Senate seatAug 30, 2013 5:30 am - During the past two elections, Republican Joe Walsh made a lot of waves in the suburbs — first defeating Democrat Melissa Bean of Barrington in 2010 to go to Congress an...
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Walsh gives advice to black conservatives in St. CharlesAug 30, 2013 5:30 am - Fresh off delivering his own controversial version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech on the radio Wednesday, former congressman Joe Walsh doub...
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8th District GOP leadership conference June 29Jun 21, 2013 5:42 pm - The 8th Congressional District Republican Leadership Conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 29 at Medinah Shriners, 550 N. Shriners Drive in Addiso...
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Duckworth aims to be ’illustration of what you can truly do’May 31, 2013 5:30 am - WASHINGTON — Jeff Person, a Falls, Va., native on his fifth internship at the U.S. Capitol, wheeled into freshman U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s office several weeks ago an...
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Shared military experience 'a starting place' for Duckworth in CongressMay 31, 2013 5:15 am - Last of a two-part series WASHINGTON — Waiting in line to fill out new-member paperwork at the U.S. Capitol complex, Tammy Duckworth and Paul Cook had a less-than-typica...