This is news to me:
ANOTHER Kennedy is about to run for public office. At his Newport fund-raiser the other night, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) told a Page Six spy his brother, Ted Kennedy Jr., who lives in New Haven, is eyeing a Connecticut congressional seat. “Patrick says support for his brother is building, and Ted […]

Just in my email box from Rep. John Larson (CT-01):
“I am pleased that my colleagues in the Senate have raised the issue of revoking President Bush’s authority to wage war. The President callously and carelessly entered this war. Clearly, things have gotten worse and not better. We cannot afford to have a President […]

Mike from Blue Hampshire interviewed Senator Chris Dodd on Sunday and used his time to try to address what the senior senator from Connecticut thinks ending America’s presence in Iraq really means.
Mike: There’s some concern about the bases we’ve built in Iraq, and whether the candidates are clear about whether we are turning those bases […]

You can watch Sen. Chris Dodd’s energy policy speech live at 12:10PM at this page on his website
David Lightman of The Hartford Courant gives a short summation of some of Dodd’s main ideas for improving America’s energy policy:
Dodd would also push for the [corporate] carbon tax. Its purpose, the position paper said, would be to […]

Congressman Frank came by my school last week to talk to the American Constitution Society (I was just elected as its new BC Law President and am a new Editor at Large on ACSblog). He had some interesting things to say about the Democratic candidates (all the same), the economy (flexible and in need […]

Senators Chris Dodd, John Kerry and Bob Casey Jr write to the Government Accountability Office regarding President Bush’s recess appointment of Sam Fox as US ambassador to Belgium.
The Honorable David M. Walker
Comptroller General
Government Accountability Office
441 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20548
Dear Mr. Walker:
We write to request that the Government Accountability Office examine a particular aspect […]

Cross posted at The Huffington Post
As Arianna Huffington ably documents, the story of the first quarter Democratic presidential numbers is not one of dominance by Hillary Clinton, but the extremely strong showing by Barack Obama. Almost 30% of Clinton’s reported money for the quarter was transfered from her Senate account, which means that it was […]

Just in from my email box (link coming)
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected a request by Republican Congressman Christopher Shays (CT-04) to switch to the Democratic caucus and maintain his seniority. Shays, a pro-war Republican from a largely anti-war district, is known for his allegedly moderate positions. Speaker […]

Jim Himes, Greenwich DTC chair and potential CT-04 candidate, has a guest post up at Connecticut Local Politics. Here’s Himes’ opening passage:
Thinking about running for Congress is a serious matter. I have spent a lot of time reflecting on the ideas and values that energize me, ideas that would breathe life into my campaign.
This thinking […]

According to Bill Clinton I’m a rage-aholic. I get drunk on rage-ahol and support Barack Obama.
“This dichotomy that’s been set up to allow [Obama] to become the raging hero of the anti-war crowd on the Internet is just factually inaccurate.”
Facts be damned, I’m raging right now!