House Republicans are trying to rebound in the 2010 election from the hit they took last year's contests by targeting 70 districts held by Democrats. Those targeted satisfy at least one of these requirements: They won less than 55 percent of the vote last year or they represent ...

Hoekstra First Out in 2010 No sooner was the ink dry on his certificate of election last month than conservative Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.) announced he will not seek re-election in 2010. At 55 and in Congress since 1992, Hoekstra · (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 91%) thus became the first Republican House member to announce his exit from the ...

Exclusive Interview When Republican lawmakers met to elect leaders last month, me only major contested position in the House Republican hierarchy was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the member who will be the House GOP field commander in the midterm elections of 2010. After a year in which the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee outspent its Republican counterpart ...

* RNC TO CHALLENGE MCCAIN-FEINGOLD: Just over a week after John McCain was defeated, his party has launched a lawsuit to overturn much of the 2002 campaign finance law that bears his name. Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan announced last week that he will file suits to end restrictions on coordinated spending by national parties and candidates for federal office and ...