Updated at 6:52 p.m. with news that Hasner will run in West’s district
Tea party firebrand Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) announced Tuesday that he will switch districts and run for reelection in Florida’s new 18th district.
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Floridians are going to the polls today to make their picks for the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Here’s how to follow all of the day’s events, from on-the-ground updates and analysis to live results and candidates post-primary speeches on WashingtonPost.com.
Read full article >>RENO, Nev. — The Republican presidential field heads west to Nevada this week facing a single dominant question: Can anything or anyone block Mitt Romney’s path to the GOP presidential nomination, particularly given his resounding win here four years ago?
Read full article >>Federal agents based in Phoenix, not officials at Justice Department headquarters in Washington, were responsible for the controversial tactics used in the gun operation known as “Fast and Furious,” Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said in a report released Tuesday.
Read full article >>A week after his State of the Union pledge to create a stronger economy, President Obama on Tuesday sent Congress a legislative package aimed at accelerating small business growth and removing roadblocks for start-ups.
Read full article >>Newt Gingrich raised $10 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 and has pulled in another $5 million in January, his campaign announced in a tweet Tuesday.
The newly disclosed fundraising numbers represent a big uptick for the former House speaker, who raised less than $1 million in the third quarter and was deeply in debt. The campaign had previously said it raised $9 million in the fourth quarter but is adjusting that up slightly.
Read full article >>At a time when people are having trouble finding even one job, Jeffrey K. Armstrong of South Riding, Va. was able to find two full-time jobs — one at the United Nations in New York and another at the National Labor Relations Board here in Washington.
Read full article >>President Obama has pledged not to rest until everyone looking for a job finds one. On Monday, he upped the ante on that promise, volunteering to help a woman find work for her unemployed husband.
Obama was answering questions from so-called ordinary Americans during an online chat that was broadcast on the Google+ Hangout social media site and YouTube when a woman named Jennifer Weddel, of Texas, told him that her husband, an engineer, had been unable to find a position in his chosen field for three years.
Read full article >>Presidential elections are more about hearts than heads. That is, most voters — particularly those loosely affiliated with the two parties — tend to vote based more on how they feel about a particular candidate than about the specific policy positions that the candidate espouses.
Read full article >>The Obama administration is renewing its push to cap the pay of government contractors, as the House prepares to vote on a bill that would freeze federal and congressional salaries.
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