RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – House Democrats say they’ll expand health care access and help families keep their homes out of foreclosure. And they’ll do without raising taxes this year.
The House Democratic Caucus on Wednesday rolled out its agenda for the rest of this year’s legislative session.
The majority party in the chamber highlighted eight priority areas, [...]

SALISBURY, N.C. – Senator Elizabeth Dole’s first television commercial airs today.
The 60-second ad focuses on her immigration enforcement plan.
Working with the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Dole helped establish a partnership between North Carolina sheriffs and federal immigration officials.  Under the plan, sheriffs across the state can access tools [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Sen. Robert Pittenger has resigned from the General Assembly to focus on his bid to become North Carolina’s lieutenant governor.
The Charlotte Republican said Tuesday he told Gov. Mike Easley in a letter that he would step down from his 39th District seat. Pittenger is in his third term in the Senate. He won [...]

According to Public Policy Polling, Republican Elizabeth Dole is ahead in the race for U.S. Senate because she’s “clobbering” her opponent with voters most concerned about immigration (89-8) and moral and family values (82-10).
PPP’s last poll showed that Hagan is actually leading among voters whose biggest concerns are the bread and butter issues of the economy [...]

DENVER (AP) – John McCain says both Republicans and Democrats have been lacking in their efforts to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
The likely Republican presidential nominee says he favors an approach that doesn’t rely too heavily on either direct talks or military force.
McCain spoke on the issue Tuesday at the University of Denver. As [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush is plunging into a fundraising tour for Sen. John McCain, but don’t expect to see much of the two men together.
The president on Tuesday begins a three-day Western trip in Arizona, home state of McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Bush will cap the day by holding a closed fundraiser [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton often says her husband wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination in June 1992 in defending her decision to press ahead until the last primary votes.
Sixteen years ago, six contests in June did give Bill Clinton the necessary delegates for the nomination, but he had essentially won the nomination in [...]

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(AP) – Barack Obama has gained three more superdelegates. The pickups in Hawaii put him just 49 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
But despite Obama’s momentum, Hillary Clinton soldiers on.
Addressing U.S.-Cuban relations while campaigning in Puerto Rico, Clinton said Raul Castro’s government should show its good faith by immediately releasing [...]