Friday Clippings From My Newsroom Floor

Steve Pearce took some political hits for aligning with the Tea Party and refusing to vote to open up the United States government this week, but he has plenty of money in the bank to defend his actions in next year's election. The latest report shows the southern NM GOP congressman with $1,054,000 in cash. That's a total that will grow leaps and bounds in the months ahead. His chief Dem