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Donald Lambro

Donald Lambro is the chief political correspondent for The Washington Times, the author of five books and a nationally syndicated columnist. His twice-weekly United Feature Syndicate column appears in newspapers across the country, including The Washington Times.

He received the Warren Brookes Award For Excellence In Journalism in 1995 and in that same year was the host and co-writer of the nationally televised PBS documentary, "Inside The Republican Revolution," a behind-the-scenes report on the first 100 days of the 104th Congress.

Before launching his syndicated newspaper column in 1980, Mr. Lambro was a reporter for United Press International, covering Congress, the federal bureaucracy and national politics. His investigative series on federal spending programs, “Watching Washington,” was twice nominated by UPI for a Pulitzer Prize.

He was named the Heritage Foundation’s Distinguished Journalism Fellow in 1981 and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for the past seven years.

He received the “Outstanding Journalist Award” from the Conservative Political Action Conference iin 1981 for his book, FAT CITY. And he was the recipient of the National Taxpayers Union award for “outstanding efforts to curtail government spending.” His investigative work as a Washington columnist was also nominated for a Pulitzer by United Feature Syndicate.

Born and raised in Wellesley, Mass., and a graduate of Boston University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Mr. Lambro began his career as a reporter for the Boston Herald-Traveler, joining UPI in 1968 in Hartford, Conn., where he covered the state house.

In addition to numerous television, radio and speaking appearances, he has also written for many magazines and other periodicals, including Reader’s Digest, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, the Washingtonian Magazine, National Review, Barron’s and The World Almanac.

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Obama's approval rating falls below 50%

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

For the first time in his presidency, President Obama's job approval rating has slipped below 50 percent in the Gallup Polls daily tracking survey.

Obama dips below 50% in new poll

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009

For the first time in his presidency, President Obama's job approval rating has slipped below 50 percent in the Gallup Polls daily tracking survey.

Split over health care bill

Opens a fissure of electoral vulnerability

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009

Democratic officials portrayed the Republican Party's squabble in New York's special House election as an intolerant right-wing purge of liberal Republicans. In fact, Dede Scozzafava was driven from the race by falling polls and voters who said she sounded and voted like a Democrat, and in the end, she endorsed the Democratic candidate.

Ohio getting a 'reddish tinge'

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

Ohio is turning a "reddish tinge," says the Columbus Dispatch, referring to the rising Republican tide that threatens to break the Democrats' political grip on the state.

Left turns on defecting Democrats

'No' votes costly

Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

Democrats who opposed the House-passed health care reform bill earlier this month have come under heavy fire from their party's left, including a top Internet activist who urged liberals to halt further contributions to the Democratic Party committee that finances their campaigns.

Asian excursion is Job No. 1?

Approval sinks as unemployment rises

Monday, Nov. 16, 2009

Let me get this straight: President Obama is on a nine-day tour of Asia after devoting much of his time to his troubled health care tax plan - yet the country's No. 1 worry is the economy and jobs.

Tax penalties and prison

Liberal application of punishment for noncompliance

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

In all the sanitized TV news reports about the House-passed health care plan, no one mentions the shocking tax penalties and maybe jail time implicit in the bill's nearly 2,000 pages.

Republicans face fights over primary races

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009

Double-digit unemployment, a fierce health care battle and record government spending and debt have lifted GOP hopes of making a comeback in the 2010 midterm elections, but also produced a string of party primary battles among Republicans.

Democrats sent reeling

Party, White House can't explain away losses

Monday, Nov. 9, 2009

Last week's Democratic losses in Virginia and New Jersey left the White House and party leaders grasping for answers and sputtering off-the-cuff excuses that were patently untrue.

Not all Dem governors for health reform

Medicaid cost feared as unfunded mandate

Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009

When the nation's 28 Democratic governors were asked to send a letter to congressional leaders last month expressing their support for health care reform, seven refused to sign the letter and even some who did complained that the pending reform plans could hit them with budget-busting expenses.