U.S. House
By Eric Ostermeier on February 6, 2013
His words say 'no' but his campaign manager floats a 'maybe.' Does the three-term congressman still have one toe in Minnesota's 2014 Senate pool?
By Eric Ostermeier on February 5, 2013
While most new U.S. Representatives have lain low during their first month in office, a half-dozen freshmen have received more than half the media coverage of their entire class.
By Eric Ostermeier on February 4, 2013
Every contestant who has correctly answered clues about Minnesota's controversial Congresswoman failed to win their match including the latest in the Teen Tournament on Friday.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 30, 2013
West Virginia and Oregon have the oldest multi-member delegations to the House with Kansas and Arkansas the youngest.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 24, 2013
Women have been elected to the U.S. House from western states at 2.5 times the rate as the rest of the country over the last century, with the region electing nearly 1/3 of all female-held seats with just 1/7 of all House seats.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 22, 2013
Eight U.S. House delegations boast an all homegrown membership, led by Iowa and Mississippi; five delegations come in at 25 percent or less including Virginia and Minnesota.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 17, 2013
The last time a former governor of the Palmetto State won a U.S. House contest was a decade before the Civil War (William Aiken).
By Eric Ostermeier on January 11, 2013
One of your ancestors might have been represented by James Joyce, John Milton, Thomas Eliot, or John Dryden on Capitol Hill.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 4, 2013
Will he or won't he? Until we know for sure, here is a profile of the nine U.S. Senators from the Gopher State who previously served in the nation's lower legislative chamber.
By Eric Ostermeier on December 17, 2012
While 27 percent of House Democrats issued official press releases on the Newtown, Connecticut murders, only 6 percent of Republicans did so and no GOPer mentioned the word 'gun' in their statements.
By Eric Ostermeier on December 14, 2012
Six new faces entering the Senate in January served in the House and 51 overall; Hawaii, Virginia, and Massachusetts have the highest all-time rate of choosing Senators with House experience.
By Eric Ostermeier on December 10, 2012
Only one sitting U.S. House member has been appointed out of 15 appointments to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina; only four of these appointed senators were subsequently elected to the chamber
By Eric Ostermeier on November 27, 2012
Chuck Grassley, Jeff Flake, Jim DeMint, and Kent Conrad have warned about budgetary fiscal cliffs for years.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 26, 2012
With only four Democratic U.S. Representatives elected from Ohio in 2012, the Buckeye State is sending the smallest number and percentage of allies of a newly-elected president to D.C. in state history.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 20, 2012
Californians and New Yorkers will comprise a record percentage of the Democratic caucus when the 113th Congress convenes in January at nearly 30 percent.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 15, 2012
Democratic nominees have won 144 U.S. House contests in a row in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and Rhode Island.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 7, 2012
Ryan's 11-point victory Tuesday was down nearly 20 points from his previous seven wins in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 7, 2012
Democratic pick-ups by Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster in the Granite State's two U.S. House districts gives New Hampshire the nation's first ever all-female D.C. delegation.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 5, 2012
More than a half-dozen contests in the five-state region could be decided by single digits.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 26, 2012
The last time three Gopher State congressional races were decided by single digits was during the Republican Revolution.
