Founded on Feb. 14, 1995, they chose the name after a painting of a blue dog with yellow eyes hanging in the offices of Rep. W.J. “Billy” Tauzin, then a Democrat from Louisiana who hosted ...

Blue Dog Democrats often hold the most competitive districts, so their struggle to win is a sign that the Democratic majority is in peril. “Blue Dogs are the cusp of the majority.

Congress’ influential Blue Dog Coalition is getting chopped nearly in half after an internal blow-up over whether to rebrand the centrist Democratic group. Seven of the 15 members expected to ...

“Blue dog” is credited to a Democratic congressman, Preston “Pete” Geren of Texas, who said conservatives had been “choked blue” by their party’s left wing. In 2019, the Democratic speaker, Nancy ...

Democrats hope his record is a boon to the presidential ticket, but Republicans say he's too liberal. News How Tim Walz went from 'Blue Dog Democrat' to progressive champion ...

That began Gillibrand’s political transformation from Blue Dog Democrat to a much more traditional liberal representing the entire state. She championed same-sex rights and women in the military ...

A divided Congress should be good for the House Blue Dog Coalition, one of three major centrist House Democratic groups. Instead, the group lost nearly half of its members after a proposed name ...

Blue Dog Coalition. The Blue Dog Coalition, commonly known as the Blue Dogs or Blue Dog Democrats, is a caucus of United States Congressional Representatives from the Democratic Party who identify ...

Corrected 2:09 p.m. | The Blue Dog Coalition doesn’t have a branding issue, its new leaders say. They aren’t concerned with its dwindling numbers. Nor are they preoccupied with the political ...

"I'm on the record saying that I'm a blue dog Democrat who is willing to work with anyone — regardless of political affiliation — on behalf of our students," Kinser said in a statement to the ...

Vance told a Washington Post reporter that his grandparents were “classic blue-dog Democrats, union Democrats.” His grandmother voted Democrat her entire life, and his grandfather did, except ...