By Erika Lovley 

Talk about bad timing.

As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

By Jonathan Martin  Faced with the choice of running as an unapologetic Democrat in a state trending toward his party or keeping his distance from Washington in the fashion of a generation of Southern Democrats, Creigh Deeds tried to do both.

The result: the worst drubbing a Virginia gubernatorial candidate has received since 1961.

By Jonathan Allen

Republicans smell blood in the water after Tuesday’s wave of statewide victories in Virginia, pointing to four Democratic-held House districts where Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell ran up the score.

By Patrick O'Connor  The Republicans’ health care bill in the House focuses more on lowering costs than on expanding coverage, party leaders said Monday — setting up a stark divide between the GOP and Democrats who have made near universal coverage a top priority of their bills.

By Chris Frates 

When the insurance industry launched the first full-scale attack on key provisions of health reform, the Democrats’ response was swift, brutal and aimed squarely at Karen Ignagni, a former Democratic Capitol Hill aide who is now the industry’s top lobbyist.

By Patrick O'Connor 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who remains well shy of the 218 votes needed to pass a landmark health care bill, isn’t wasting much time these days on colleagues who are firmly in the “no” column — or even those who appear to be.

By Andy Barr A slew of new polls released Tuesday showed Republican nominee Bob McDonnell with a comfortable lead in the Virginia governor’s race and Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican Chris Christie running nearly even in New Jersey.

By Jonathan Martin

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds said Monday that he hadn’t distanced himself from President Obama, even as senior Democrats in the state complained about the difficult political winds blowing in from across the Potomac River.

By Michael Falcone 

The Democratic candidates in the closely watched New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests have relentlessly courted women voters this fall, but with notably different results.

By Carrie Budoff Brown 

Democrats are pushing Senate leaders and the White House to speed up key benefits in the health reform bill to 2010, eager to give the party something to show taxpayers for their $900 billion investment in an election year.