Cal. Senate Race in the Shadows
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in November — which could pass without a single candidate running television ads — is less a test of the contestants’ relative merits than their ability to cut through the media
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Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) in November — which could pass without a single candidate running television ads — is less a test of the contestants’ relative merits than their ability to cut through the media
“Because of my chairmanship of the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] I know people all over the country,” Frost said of his ambitious fundraising goal.
“Because of my chairmanship of the [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] I know people all over the country,” Frost said of his ambitious fundraising goal.
“We had made it very clear to the White House that we are not going to get the energy bill done without a big push from the president,” said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for House Energy and Commerce
“We’re upset that they have decided to pull out of Washington, especially when we are trying to get one of the biggest energy bills ever,” said one Texas Republican.
Similarly, Norton said she welcomes the additional legislation but will remain committed to her own proposal. “I support my bill.
“I think it is a going-forward enterprise from here.”
“You’ll get some grousing there,” said Stephen Hess, a Congressional expert at the Brookings Institution.
“In hindsight, I don’t know that we should have filed cloture and have it all on that day,” acknowledged one senior Senate GOP aide.
Wertheimer said he learned a lot from his predecessor, the late John Gardner.
“I think … it’s so much a part of the fabric of the way that Congress functions, that I think they see it, and quite properly, as part of the legislative [process]. … They see it as part of
Just as Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign helped reshape political debates across the country in 2000, Green Party officials, left without their well-known standard bearer this year, hope to replicate
Strom Thurmond (R) without a primary and then in a campaign against a conservative Democrat.
“I am grateful to all of my colleagues who answered the call to assist Alice,” said Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who is heading up the effort.
I think the court made a point by telling the government that it had no business making the indictment.”
“I am going to vote for Russ Feingold,” he told the paper.
Hall gave the Democratic leadership any advance notice, nor did we expect to receive such a notice,” said one leadership aide.
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) can raise and spend funds on an unrestricted basis for reapportionment-related activities in his home state without running afoul of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.
“I don’t think anyone believes this is going to be an ambitious legislative session,” one adviser to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) said.
[IMGCAP(1)] “In February I will be leading a bipartisan delegation to Montgomery, Alabama, to study the history of civil rights in our nation,” Frist wrote in a Dec. 1 e-mail to supporters of VOLPAC