Bill Owens

Democrat Bill Owens, an attorney, won his seat in a special election that drew national attention last year.

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: Beer, Bipartisanship in His Blood

By Sandra Fish

They were swilling pints of Hickenlooper's Inaugurale in Denver Tuesday, toasting John Hickenlooper, the former brewpub owner, mayor and now Colorado governor -- a Democrat billed as a bipartisan ...

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Conservative Doug Hoffman Running Again for Upstate New York House Seat

By Tom Diemer

Conservative Doug Hoffman, who all but forced the Republican Party's anointed candidate out of a congressional campaign in upstate New York last fall, only to see the long-held GOP seat fall to a ...

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Doug Hoffman Says ACORN, Labor Unions Stole Election in NY-23

By David Sessions

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race for Congress in New York's 23rd District to Democrat Bill Owens, is alleging that ACORN and labor unions helped Owens steal the election, ...

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2 New Democrats to Be Sworn In Before Health Care Vote

By Patricia Murphy

How "special" were the two special elections that the Democrats won on Tuesday night? So special that the winners, John Garamendi in California and Bill Owens in New York, will be sworn into their new ...

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Report Card on the Pollsters in the Off-Year Races

By Bruce Drake

So, how did the pollsters do in their final surveys before the key off-year races in predicting the results? ...

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May 25, 2012

Congressional challenger calls incumbent a hypocrite

Source: Press Republican - Plattsburgh NY

Congressional challenger Matt Doheny claims that incumbent Bill Owens is a hypocrite.

May 23, 2012

Watchdog group calls for probe of lobbyists behind congressional trip to Taiwan

Source: The Post-Standard - Syracuse NY

A government watchdog group is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate a lobbying firm that organized a $22,000 trip to Taiwan for Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY) and his wife in December.

May 11, 2012

GOP says goodbye to debt deal, UPenn listed Warren as minority, Lobbyists planned Owens' trip, GOP mum on gay marriage, Reid attacks the filibuster, Bachmann drops Swiss citizenship

Source: Politico

GOP SAYS GOODBYE TO DEBT LIMIT DEAL -- "Moving right and bleeding moderate votes, Republicans narrowly won House approval Thursday of their plan to shift tens of billions from poverty programs to protect the Pentagon from automatic cuts under the August debt accords," POLITICO's David Rogers reports.

May 11, 2012

Lobbyists behind N.Y. lawmaker's trip

Source: Politico

Two days after Christmas last year, Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) and his wife, Jane, boarded a first-class flight to Taiwan for a four-day tour of the island.

May 10, 2012

21st Congressional District candidates weigh in on Obama's support for gay marriage

Source: Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake NY

Most of the candidates in the race for New York's new 21st Congressional District were critical of President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he now supports gay marriage.