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Appearing Wednesday on NBC News, House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said Democrats should “stop all the sloganeering” amid growing concerns that the party will lose its majority in Congress in the 2022 midterm elections.

A blast from the not-so-far past.

There's hardly a topic these days on which President Bush isn't asking the Democratic-controlled Congress to avoid "a reflexive partisan response." That's certainly the case with Iraq, but it also applies to the domestic priorities of health and energy that he set in his State of the Union address. "I have asked Congress to take several vital steps to address these issues," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address. "Some members gave a reflexive partisan response." He praised the few Democrats who had "welcomed this opportunity to reach across the aisle." "This is a good start," he said. In...

SAN DIEGO – While taking a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger chided Congress on Wednesday for stalling federal legislation to curb illegal immigration. Republican leaders in the House of Representatives announced Tuesday their plans for more hearings next month on immigration, a move that could doom any hope of passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year. “It would be totally inexcusable,” Schwarzenegger told reporters during a whirlwind tour of the border, during which he met with National Guard troops assigned to the international boundary as part of the Bush Administration's Operation Jump Start. National Guard soldiers...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Faced with the prospect of vetoing populist bills to raise the minimum wage, protect car buyers and combat the high price of prescription drugs, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today accused Democrats of sandbagging him to boost their own political fortunes. In an interview on Sacramento talk radio, Schwarzenegger lashed out at the Democrat-controlled Legislature for sending him both ``silly'' bills and politically motivated measures. ``I'm trying to do good things for the people, but they try to jam me so they can go back and say to their district: `Look what this Republican governor did' so they...

WASHINGTON - Porter Goss, tapped as the next CIA (news - web sites) director, says the Senate lacked "balance" in its public hearings investigating the Iraqi prison scandal and should not have plucked military commanders from the field to question them about the abuse. Goss took a hard line on interrogations in interviews with The Associated Press earlier this year, saying "Gee you're breaking my heart" to complaints that Arab men found it abusive to have women guards at the Guantanamo Bay terror camp — statements that could draw scrutiny during his Senate confirmation hearing (news - web sites), possibly...