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Rep. Joe Baca has achieved near celebrity status in his suburban Los Angeles district, as much for his record of giveaways — Thanksgiving turkeys, college scholarships, spare boots for firefighters — as for anything he has done in Congress.

As the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) battles to keep ahead of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), a handful of Democrats who are either in solidly safe seats or retiring have yet to pay their dues to the House fundraising arm -- funds that would go toward boosting the election chances of their vulnerable colleagues.

Organized labor groups of all kinds have a long history of supporting Democratic candidates at election time. You just heard from Mike Prusi. Other democratic figures joined him for a rally at the Ishpeming Labor Day Festival.

Outside organizations have shelled out twice as much on ads and other electioneering activities to affect Congressional races so far during the 2010 election cycle as they did two years ago.

Bay City -- Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal complaint against a Colorado man accused of helping his father threaten Rep. Bart Stupak over his vote on health care legislation.

Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal complaint against a Colorado man accused of helping his father threaten Michigan congressman Bart Stupak over his vote on health-care legislation.

Late Monday, BP responded to a request from the Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce that asked the company to report how much money it had shelled out on advertising after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April.

by Erika Niedowski and Ben Geman An explosion Thursday on a Gulf of Mexico oil platform thrust the politics of offshore drilling back in the spotlight, as critics immediately seized on the accident to highlight what they called the industry's inherent dangers. The explosion and fire happened Thursday morning at a production platform at Vermilion Block 380, about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast ...

WASHINGTON — Only half of the scientists surveyed at the federal agency responsible for the safety of the nation’s egg supply have full confidence that their organization adequately protects consumers from food-borne illness in eggs.

Oil giant BP plc (BP) (BP.L) spent over $93 million on advertising over the three-month period following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, more than three times the amount spent by the company on ads in the same period last year, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday.