The Senate shot down another round of proposals Thursday to extend and/or expand a reduction in payroll taxes that expires at the end of the year. Meanwhile, leaders in the House dug in to draft their own payroll tax proposal, one ...

I realize you hate politics, and you have every right to. The inscrutable gibberish, the meaningless bickering. The jargon, the gridlock. The bad comb-overs. You hate it because it was stated with utmost seriousness that global warming legislation died last year because ...

WASHINGTON — Last week, Republicans circulated a story to Nevada reporters about Rep. Shelley Berkley's husband, Dr. Larry Lehrner, who's been buying up and reselling foreclosed properties in Las Vegas.The news that Lehrner had made about $86,000 from the ...

For months now, Democrats have been bludgeoning Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Joe Heck with familiar and tiresome rhetoric to frighten old people into voting for their opponents.Cutting Medicare. Cutting Social Security. Cutting their oxygen, too, I suppose.The Republicans apparently ...

A story in Monday's edition incorrectly reported that Rep. Joe Heck was the only Nevada Republican who has run a campaign for statewide or federal office with a Latino outreach director. On Sept. 1, Sen. Dean Heller hired a staff member ...

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois dropped last week his amendment to block any funds from being used to shutter the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository — an order that would have effectively led to its redevelopment.Cue the scramble by the Nevada ...

Emptying out the ol' reporter's notebook with your Friday Flash, including some accounting for gamers in federal politics and Rick Perry's short, unhappy Nevada campaign life:¥ The GOP's new dynamic Strip duo: Don't ask me who is Batman ...

Only two months ago, Nevada Republicans were seeing red — in a good way.The party was finally getting professional, the GOP prospects to win the presidential and U.S. Senate races here were looking good and they believed the redistricting court fight ...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Democratic Party has to do more than just hold on to the White House in the 2012 elections.Democrats have a slim majority in the 100-member U.S. Senate with 53 seats, including two held by independent ...

The forces have almost aligned. Republicans can almost taste it — a rebuilt party that can once again compete with Democrats.A popular Republican governor in Carson City. The upper ranks purged of the scandal-ridden. A Democratic president with job-approval problems. And a ...