WASHINGTON -- Greetings, Early Liners. No sooner did Sen. Harry Reid launch TV ads in his 2010 re-election bid than a progressive group has announced it will begin running ads Wednesday pushing the majority leader to take a tougher stand on health care reform. The TV ads from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (that’s the P-trip, to insiders) is pushing Reid to include the public option in the health care reform bill he is shaping this week on Capitol Hill. ...

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WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Dina Titus will do this week what most Nevada lawmakers ably avoided during the long hot summer of Tea Party protests: She will host an open town hall forum on health care on Monday.

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WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Dina Titus continues to expand her reach on the Hill, having been appointed today as one of the conferees to negotiate the final version of a massive defense bill.

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WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. Doctors decked out in white coats filled the Rose Garden this morning as President Barack Obama welcomed physicians from 50 states to the White House to discuss health care reform.

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WASHINGTON — Former Republican state Sen. Joe Heck is “seriously considering” dropping out of the governor’s race to challenge Democratic Rep. Dina Titus for Southern Nevada’s congressional seat in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s efforts to secure a better deal for Nevada in the health care reform legislation, which we wrote about last week, is highlighted in today’s New York Times.

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WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. The big political news in Nevada this week, if you have not yet heard, is that Republican John Guedry has dropped his bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Dina Titus in the Southern Nevada congressional district next year.

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WASHINGTON -- Investment banker John Chachas, one of the potential Republican challengers to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, got a look in the New York Times today. The paper describes ...

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WASHINGTON — Greetings, Early Liners. The capital is back to workday normalcy after a spirited weekend of Tea Party protesters, but the political landscape might be not quite the same.

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WASHINGTON — One of the funnier stories in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s autobiography “The Good Fight” is the one he tells about first seeing his wife.

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