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Dems target vulnerable GOP lawmakers over health law repeal voteBy Meghashyam Mali - 07/02/12 06:00 AM ET The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is launching a new campaign Monday targeting vulnerable GOP lawmakers on healthcare ahead of the House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. "Democrats are on offense as we expose these House Republicans for standing up for insurance companies and congressional perks instead of protecting consumers," said DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.), in a statement announcing the drive. "For 18 months, Republicans have been on defense for protecting millionaires over Medicare and now they're planning another vote...

Liberal activists organized by CREDO SuperPAC are planning to protest outside a fundraiser that House Speaker John Boehner is holding Wednesday on Portola Road in Woodside with Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River. The event with Boehner, R-Ohio, costs up to $35,000 a plate or $5,000 for a photo opportunity, and is occurring just six miles from the Atherton home in which President Obama is scheduled to hold a $35,800-a-plate fundraiser at about the same time.CREDO SuperPAC says it has launched a campaign against Lungren with four full-time organizers and a Carmichael field office to mobilize local voters to defeat a...

Washington -- Dan Lungren, a Republican member of Congress from Sacramento County, wants to give the world "a second Yosemite Valley." The valley already exists, in Yosemite National Park - buried under 300 feet of water in the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which provides San Franciscans and 1.7 million other Bay Area residents with pristine water straight from the Sierra. All that would be needed would be to blow up the dam, which Yosemite godfather John Muir fought to his dying breath in 1914. The Schwarzenegger administration in 2006 estimated the cost at $3 billion to $10 billion. Lungren said Yosemite...

Rep. Dan Lungren has decided against challenging fellow Republican Congressman Tom McClintock and instead will run in what is a swing district that extends from Elk Grove to Folsom, his campaign manager said today. "Unless something changes, he will run in the 7th Congressional District and is confident in doing so," Lungren adviser Rob Stutzman told The Bee. Lungren had toyed with running against McClintock, the more conservative of the two, in the 2012 GOP primary for the 4th Congressional District.

But the GOP has succeeded in short order in one critically important venture: getting rid of the "compostable" cornstarch-based knives, forks and spoons that were a universally - and bipartisanly - hated feature of the House cafeteria operation. It turns out that the composting program not only cost the House an estimated $475,000 a year (according to the House inspector general) but actually increased energy consumption in the form of "additional energy for the pulping process and the increased hauling distance to the composting facility," according to a news release from Lungren. Lungren's stick-a-biodegradable-fork-in-it (if you can) stance toward a...

CQ Politics changed its rating of the 3rd Congressional District contest from "leans Republican" to a "tossup" last night, saying "there appears to be little doubt that (incumbent Rep. Dan) Lungren will have to fight to hold his seat." The Gold River Republican is facing a challenge from Democrat Ami Bera, a doctor from Elk Grove who has strong backing from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Lungren, whose seat is a major target for Democrats, . . .

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- While some Democratic lawmakers have canceled town hall meetings after their colleagues endured criticism from health-reform opponents, GOP Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.) has struggled to find a space large enough to accommodate the throngs of people showing up at his meetings. With two public healthcare forums under his belt since returning home for recess, the lightning-rod issue has shaken up thousands of his constituents, many of whom were unable to fit in the venues booked months ago by his staff. Spending a day with Lungren in the rural portion of his district southeast of Sacramento, it was...

From the office of Congressman Dan Lungren: As your Representative, I strive to keep communication open so that I may better serve you. Town hall meetings are a wonderful way for constituents to ensure I am well-informed of local issues and concerns and for me to provide immediate answers to any questions you may have. This line of communication between citizens and their representatives is so important to me that I pioneered the use of the tele-town hall format, where I can reach several thousand constituents at once with a single phone call. I have encouraged the use of this...

Environmentalists long to drain the reservoir that gives San Francisco its water, and thus restore a scenic valley. Rep. Dan Lungren says the idea's worth studying - but it has some powerful foes. HETCH HETCHY THEN: The Tuolumne River meanders through the green, pristine valley a half-century ago.Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River, said Thursday that it is time to look seriously at restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park by draining the reservoir that has been a source of clean water for San Francisco for more than 80 years. The conservative Republican and former California attorney general said he...

Rep. Dan Lungren faced off with Democratic challenger Bill Durston in a spirited debate Thursday night that spanned the right and left and rarely reached the political center. On topics that ranged from the war in Iraq to Social Security, the incumbent Republican and Durston, an emergency room physician, jousted and sparred, often in unusually harsh terms. Opposition to the war in Iraq is what drew Durston into the 3rd Congressional District race in February, and he barely restrained his disdain for Lungren, who backs the Bush administration policies there. The Vietnam veteran noted that Lungren had never served in...

by Mark Finkelstein August 11, 2006 - 21:47 It doesn't take much to offend liberals' exquisite sensitivities. The latest? Referring to Islamofascists as . . . Islamofascists. Chris Matthews got the ball rolling on this evening's Hardball. But Charlie Rangel upped the ante to the max, managing to impugn Christians and Jews in the bargain. Fortunately, GOP Congressman Dan Lungren had the guts to call Rangel on it. Matthews got things started by challenging Lungren: "Would you include Hezbollah in that group [of Islamofascists]? Would you include Hamas, they are they enemies of Israel. Are they also enemies of ours?...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two House Republicans said Wednesday they will circulate a petition calling for elections to replace nearly all the top GOP leaders of the House, instead of just former Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Such a move would put Northern California Republican Rep. John Doolittle's leadership post in jeopardy. Reps. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., and John Sweeney, R-N.Y., said wholesale changes were needed in the wake of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal that helped force DeLay to permanently relinquish his leadership post. Their petition would not seek to replace House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., but would subject all seven leadership...

SACRAMENTO – Even as Attorney General Bill Lockyer prepared court papers Tuesday to stop same-sex marriages, a pair of conservative Republicans who helped organize last year's recall of former Gov. Gray Davis announced plans to remove Lockyer from office for "neglecting" state marriage laws. U.S. Senate hopeful Howard Kaloogian and political consultant Ted Costa opened a petition drive to recall Lockyer, arguing that the two-term attorney general has been ignoring Proposition 22, a measure approved by voters in 2000 that requires the state to only recognize marriage between a man and a woman as valid. Lockyer, a potential rival to...

<p>The ideological rivals bring their war to 3rd District's congressional primary.</p> <p>WASHINGTON - While Sacramento businesswoman Mary Ose and state Sen. Rico Oller battle it out with former California Attorney General Dan Lungren over who should be the Republican to compete for the 3rd Congressional District, a parallel battle is being played out on a larger stage.</p>

Republican Family Feud Party solidarity? Ha! In the wild and woolly primary for California’s 3rd Congressional District, a trio of Republican candidates are engaged in a pitched battle. By Jeff Kearns Rico Oller clearly was in his element in the gun store, even if he looked a little out of place as the only person wearing a suit and tie. Walking into Badger John’s Huntin’ Stuff in the Arden-Arcade area, he greeted a group of supporters with enthusiastic handshakes and then gravitated to a counter. An array of guns was displayed on the wall behind it, and the Republican state...

Seems to me that Dan Lungren has the 3-rd district locked up. Check out the number of House Committee Chairmen who have endorsed Dan. No more of this loser cheap representation in the Sacramento area. It will be nice to see a real Reagan Conservative representing the 3-rd district, currently held by Doug Ose, thankfully retiring. Its my understanding that some hillbilly state senator is running, as well as the sister of Doug Ose...so basically, Dan has an easy ride through the primary. Nice web site he has going too. Anybody know of his opponents web addresses?

WASHINGTON -- Former California Attorney General Dan Lungren has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission declaring himself to be a candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed Rep. Doug Ose. Lungren said in an interview this week that he expects to formally announce his candidacy for the 3rd Congressional District seat at a Sacramento-area press conference in two weeks. He will face state Sen. Rico Oller of San Andreas in the March primary. Lungren served a decade in the House representing the San Diego area before being elected twice as the state's top lawyer. He took a hiatus from...

Former California Attorney General Dan Lungren has announced his intention to run for the 3rd Congressional District of the U.S. House of Representatives, currently held by U.S. Rep. Doug Ose, R-Sacramento. Lungren will face off against California State Senator Rico Oller, R-San Andreas, who currently represents Amador County as part of the First Senatorial District. Ose announced in May that he would not seek re-election, creating a vacuum in the solidly Republican district that stretches across the Sacramento Valley and runs to the Nevada border, taking in all of Alpine, Amador and Calaveras Counties, all of the rural portions of...