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</p> “Who is that?” one woman asked at the Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545 last week. </p> “I don’t know him,” another said. </p> “Yeah, I’ve heard of him.
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</p> “Who is that?” one woman asked at the Harry E. Anderson VFW Post 9545 last week. </p> “I don’t know him,” another said. </p> “Yeah, I’ve heard of him.
</p> The organization gave Dodd the nod, in part, for his work shepherding the health care reform bill in the Senate.
</p> Louisiana Senate</p> Despite some hype created by the eleventh-hour filing by retired Republican state Supreme Court Justice Chet Traylor, Sen.
</p> The live telephone survey of 500 likely general election voters had a 4.4-point margin of error.
</p> Party leaders have encouraged their rank and file to focus on small businesses while campaigning in their districts this week, and the office of Rep.
Still, he poked his party leaders for over-promising the immediate effect of legislation such as the stimulus bill, which continues to work its way through the economy.
</p> Brenda Bramble, a horse trainer who attended the crab feast, recalled that as governor Castle helped push a slots bill that she supported.
Republican businessman Bill Flores is focusing on job creation in his first general election ad, which started airing in the Waco, Texas, and Bryan-College Station media markets Wednesday.
</p> Coburn and Barrasso were key figures in the GOP attempt to filibuster the Democrats’ health care reform bill last year.
</p> Even the perpetually preppy Sen.
</p> Thirty-two Democrats voted against the final health care bill last March, but none has yet to sign onto the King measure.
</p> Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), a chief deputy whip who reintroduced a stem cell research bill with Rep.
In the meantime, Biden said, Senate Republicans continue to block a small-business jobs bill.
</p> The president and first lady Michelle Obama will head to Louisiana from Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where they are vacationing. They will continue on to Washington, D.C., later Sunday.
</p> With about 40 percent of precincts reporting, the Associated Press called the race with 55 percent for Meek and 32 percent for Greene.
</p> Sen. John McCain easily won Arizona’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday night and is poised to cruise to a fifth term in November. </p> Despite a spirited challenge from former GOP Rep. J.D.
</p> “I wanted to look like an Indian bride,” she says (Abedin is half-Indian, half-Pakistani).
</p> “I think that they should stay,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) told reporters during a conference call.
</p> Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, laid out Congress’ choices in stark terms this week.
</p> Arkansas and Tennessee’s resistance to this geographic trend is credited in no small measure to the success and influence of two homegrown Democratic sons: President Bill Clinton, an Arkansas governor