Articles filed under U.S. Congress
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Vets, Kirk always support each otherOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - I was shocked and dismayed when I saw Dan Seals and Blagojevich official State Veteran Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth on television bashing Congressman Mark Kirk on ve...
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Vets fire back at Seals' adOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Lake County veterans Thursday fired a return volley on behalf of incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk in the increasingly hostile 10th Congressional District race. About three ...
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Wide difference in 6th District campaign coffersOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Democrat Jill Morgenthaler will need a windfall in the next few weeks if she hopes to keep up financially with Republican Peter Roskam in the race for the 6th Congressio...
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Kirk goes after spokesman in Seals adOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is labeling a spokesman in his opponent's ad as a Sept. 11 conspiracy theorist, though the 25-year-old from Peoria says that is not true. "Let me ge...
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Seals can't even get little things rightOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - If I ever needed excuses not to vote for Dan Seals, he's given them to me in spades with his shockingly poor planning and decisions. Twice now, Dan Seals has tried to ho...
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Bean still way ahead in fundraising raceOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Wealthy congressional hopeful Steve Greenberg never turned into the self-funding candidate political pundits predicted - and now it seems some of the investors he'll nee...
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Bailout, economy divide U.S. Senate picksOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin voted for the recent $700 billion economic rescue package for the nation's financial markets, but his Republican opponent argues the ...
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Country needs more leaders like BeanOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - I am responding to recent comments made by Republican County Chairman Daniel Venturi that couldn't be more wrong. I'm sorry to see someone like him stoop to the level of...
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Economy divides 14th Congressional candidatesOct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - Their view of the recent $700 billion federal bailout is just one of several economic issues that divides congressional rivals Bill Foster and Jim Oberweis...
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16th Congressional candidates spar over bailout, economyOct 14, 2008 11:00 pm - The federal government's $700 billion bailout of Wall Street provides one clear point of difference between the candidates for the Congress in the 16th district: Don Man...