Balfour First to Enter Race to Succeed Linder
Don Balfour (R) on Monday became the first candidate to enter the race to succeed Rep. John Linder (R), who stunned Peach State Republicans with his retirement announcement over the weekend.
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Don Balfour (R) on Monday became the first candidate to enter the race to succeed Rep. John Linder (R), who stunned Peach State Republicans with his retirement announcement over the weekend.
their tables and getting their budgets in order,” Balfour said in an interview Monday.
“The first thing I wanted people to know was that I was there to be serious, that I would keep my head down and do my work,” Franken said in his first extended national interview since he was seated
into the future.
In a Sunday interview with ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi made clear she is backing the veteran lawmaker at least until the ethics committee finishes its inquiry. But she also acknowledged that “what Mr.
“All I ever tried to do was to understand the soldiers as human beings who make good and bad decisions, rather than good and bad people,” Frederick said in an interview.
to continue to attend the conference,” the report states.
John Shadegg (R-Ariz.), went after Hayworth, dubbing him an earmarker in a radio interview with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Congressman who served with both Shadegg and Hayworth.
Democratic leaders and the president were on the cusp of reconciling competing House and Senate health care packages in January. But their budding agreement was derailed by the election of Sen.
The office’s makeup — which includes an Asian press secretary and a Hispanic chief of staff — was an “organic” phenomenon, Harmon said in a recent interview.
“I’m a firm believer being an offensive lineman taught me a lot,” Harrison said in an interview in his sparsely decorated office at NRCC headquarters.
And just in case any prospective applicants missed the point, the notice repeated the point when listing five essential qualifications for the job.
“It makes it difficult, there’s no question about that,” Miller said when asked about Rangel’s ability to be effective as chairman in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers.”
provided earmarks to the clients of the PMA Group in exchange for campaign contributions from the lobbyists and employees of the client firms.
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) had received the Maryland homestead tax break. According to the OCE’s review, Stark denied contacting the tax office in an interview with OCE investigators.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that she wants the House to move quickly — as soon as this week — on the jobs bill that cleared the Senate earlier in the day.
“When in reality if you go into every community in America, the local automobile dealer, the new car dealer especially, they’re the pillars in the community.”
“Those guys want to work forever,” Hardwick said in an interview after the hearing. “We don’t.” The GPO police force has only 26 officers; the Library had closer to 100.
It’s going to be as hotly contested in 2012 as it is today,” Kerrey said Wednesday during a telephone interview.
Jared Polis (D-Colo.) made an appearance on last week’s episode of the “Real World: D.C.,” and on Monday, several Members appeared on “The Buried Life.”