Chip Cravaack

St. Cloud's Tarryl Clark has more company in the race to unseat Chip Cravaack. An Iraq war veteran and former staffer to U.S. Sen. Al Franken is joining the Democratic race in northern Minnesota's 8th Congressional District.

Representative Chip Cravaack unseated 36-year Democratic incumbent Jim Oberstar last year in northeastern Minnesota. Now the conservative Republican is considered the state's most vulnerable member of Congress and a national target in 2012. Democrats are lining up to run against him.

Minnesota Congressman Chip Cravaack has bucked Republican leaders and voted against a House bill to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a government default. Cravaack, the state's newest member of Congress, joined fellow Republican Michele Bachmann Friday in voting against the bill.

Minnesota Congressman Chip Cravaack says attack ads are pressuring him to begin running for re-election. So he's putting together his team earlier than he expected to.

A Duluth city councilman on Wednesday announced his plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack in Minnesota's 8th Congressional District. Jeff Anderson says he's been hearing from an increasing number of residents, including some who voted for Cravaack, who are "not impressed" with the way the Republican freshman congressman has represented the district.

Most of the St. Cloud metro area would be placed in a newly created 7th Congressional District, under a plan unveiled today by House Republicans. The map would keep the extreme southeastern corner of Stearns county and Sherburne county in the Sixth District.

Former Democratic state senator Tarryl Clark is planning another run for Congress. Clark says she and her husband bought a condo in Duluth and she plans to file papers to run against Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack next year.

Former U.S. Rep. James Oberstar will be honored for his long public service career Tuesday at the Humphrey Center in Minneapolis. Oberstar is scheduled to speak, and his new role at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School will be discussed.