Ellsworth’s Seat Looks to Be a Difficult Hold
</p> Bucshon disputed the idea that this is a district drawn to help a Democrat win.
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</p> Bucshon disputed the idea that this is a district drawn to help a Democrat win.
</p> Ayotte led 37 percent to Lamontagne’s 30 percent among likely Republican primary voters.
</p> Obama, who said he remains committed to comprehensive immigration reform, also took a shot at the Latino press, complaining that it perpetuated the perception that he could have forced a bill through
</p> </p> Massachusetts </p> The 10th district seat held by retiring Rep. Bill Delahunt (D) is the only competitive general election contest in the Bay State, a Democratic stronghold.
</p> The political consequences for the GOP were so disastrous that the phrase “government shutdown” has barely been uttered in polite company for the past 15 years.</p> Until now, that is.
</p> Rep.
</p> How Madison might weigh in on the two pending constitutional lawsuits is anybody’s guess given how far U.S. constitutional law has come since its beginning.
</p> Lott said he believes the tea party conservatives “want to get something done.”
</p> The measure has been languishing in the chamber for months as Republicans blasted components of the bill and demanded consideration of a handful of their amendments.
Bill Halter in the Democratic primary runoff, 52 percent to 48 percent.
</p> Still, Senate Democrats have identified three priorities — a small-business lending measure, a bill dealing with an extension of Bush-era tax cuts, and a stopgap spending bill to keep the government
</p> Hellmann, who said he will discuss legislative strategy with his members this week, said that the Senate may try to pass a limited tax-extenders bill either in the coming weeks or in a lame-duck
if the Senate cannot get much accomplished beyond a small-business bill and a continuing resolution keeping the government operating past the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year.
</p> No word on whether Boehner or Cantor hit the field.</p> Kaufman Rides the Rails </p> Vice President Joseph Biden would be so proud!</p> An HOH spy saw Sen.
Bush saw 75 of his 127 judicial nominees confirmed at the same point in his presidency, and for President Bill Clinton, 84 of his 124 were confirmed.
She could even afford Democratic defections: 44 Democrats voted against the final version of health care reform in March, while 44 Democrats voted against the climate change bill in June 2009.
</p> It’s a sharp contrast to the persona that breezed into the network’s Capitol Hill studio, casually ribbing his on-air opponent, liberal Bill Press, and bantering with makeup artists and NBC personalities
Environmentalist Bill McKibben visited the White House on Friday seeking to return a historical relic — but in the end, nobody ended up taking it.
</p> Democrats have said the defense authorization bill and its language to revoke the military’s policy barring gays from serving openly is a top priority for the upcoming work period.
Soda was also the target of a new tax that some Members floated to help pay for the health care bill.