Boxer gets a big boost with a personal Obama appearance for her California Senate seat.

Other successful Obama stump stops in the past few months:

• Martha Coakley, candidate for former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's seat, 2009
• Jon Corzine, Governor re-election in New Jersey, 2009
• Creigh Deeds, Governor-candidate for Virginia, 2009

(Hint: All 3 seats went to the Republican challenger.) Read more »

The last decade or so has seen an almost unprecedented visibility into the sausage-making that is our legislative process. The American People have become much more comfortable with terms like "filibuster" in recent years, particularly since the use of that tactic has become increasingly aggressive over the last decade. Read more »

As part of the weekend round-up, I'll be briefly going over a few stories that caught my attention as the week was winding down:

Bill Reconciliation is the latest parliamentary maneuver that Obama and Congressional Democrats are using to force their Healthcare agenda through Congress and onto the President's desk. Read more »

As you have undoubtedly heard by now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife and daughter were in an accident last Thursday (11 March 2010). Both were injured, and Mrs. Reid needed surgery. Hopefully, both will be feeling better soon. Read more »

Barbara Boxer, an 18-year veteran of the Senate, recently filed her re-election paperwork to signal her official run for the Senate this November. However, not everything is going well for the junior Senator from California. In the wake of of Scott Brown's upset for Ted Kennedy's seat, a long-time stronghold for Democrats, Boxer remarked, 'Every state is in play'.

Recent Rasmussen Report polling numbers have placed Boxer in the mid-to-upper 40s when pitted against the likely Republican candidates for her seat. The L.A. Times noted last week: Read more »