Nebraska and Hawaii: Studying Senate Handicapping
(Roll Call also rates the contest as Leans Democratic.) Kerrey’s candidacy, in some respects, is similar to Lingle’s.
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Majority Makers: Justin Amash Isn’t Afraid to Walk Own Path
Few Members, if any, instruct their staffers to cold-call hundreds of Congressional offices to schedule one-on-one meetings for their boss with other lawmakers.
Race Ratings: Handful of Seats for Grabs After Fla. Reshuffle
The Federal Election Commission has closed one investigation of Buchanan, a fact his attorneys trumpeted to Roll Call.
Report: Bob Kerrey Will Run for Nebraska Senate Seat After All
After he left the Senate in 2001, Kerrey moved to New York City to serve as president of the New School University in Greenwich Village.
Nebraska’s Hamlet Moment
Call it the Cornhusker question mark. Word leaked Monday that former Sen.
Hill Climbers: Reporter’s Path From Hawaii to Hill
“I started watching the news at a very young age, and I wanted to be a news reporter,” Boylan told Roll Call. “I’ve always loved talking and telling stories — even to strangers.”
Discussing ‘The Dark Side’
“Islam is a religion that uses a lot of fear,” Darwish, a Christian convert from Islam and founder of Arabs for Israel, told Roll Call in a recent interview.
Michele Bachmann Leaves No Doubt About Re-Election
Betty McCollum’s (D) 4th district, but she forcefully told Roll Call that the 6th district was where she planned to continue her legislative career.
Roscoe Bartlett Ready to Fight for His Seat
Over the course of a November interview with Roll Call, he walked from the Capitol through the House tunnel while 20-something and 30-something staffers rode the subway.
Hill Climbers: Staffer Serves on Hill and in Church
For some, running for class president is a way to move up (or onto) the high school social ladder. For Matthew Stroia, it was the springboard into a career in politics.
Lessons From the Classroom Apply to Congress
But as a high school science teacher in California’s Silicon Valley in the 1970s, he also targeted an older set. “I visited every parent’s [home],” the California Democrat told Roll Call.
Days After SOTU Are Full of Lobbyist Feedback
While Obama may not have had much to say on the retail-jobs theme, he did include many mentions of education policy — not all of them welcomed by school lobbyists.
Shelter From the Storm
The second time he plays for Roll Call he is accompanied by his staff assistant, Alex Large — a talented bluegrass guitarist and vocalist with D.C.’s Second String Band — and Roe performs beautifully
GOP Rules Talk-Show Circuit
But in 2011, the GOP lawmakers captured 64 percent of the Congressional appearances on the five shows that Roll Call tracks, and every network featured more Republican lawmakers than Democrats.
Brown, Warren Agree to Limit Outside Spending
Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren agreed today to attempt to limit third parties from advertising in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Rapper: From Rap Battles in High School Halls to Congress
“[Rapping] honed my instincts in terms of being in tune to what people want,” he said in an interview with Roll Call.
Gingrich: Christian Conservatives on My Side
The former Speaker’s campaign sent his two sisters to teach Sunday school at a Columbia, S.C., church and invited reporters to cover the event.
Elizabeth Warren Raises Massive $5.7 Million in 4th Quarter
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Massachusetts, raked in a whopping $5.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, a campaign source confirmed
Abby Huntsman Livingston: A Unique View From the Campaign Trail
Roll Call politics reporter Abby Livingston got to find out when she talked to Abby Huntsman Livingston, the daughter of GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, this week from the campaign trail.
Joseph Kennedy III Moves Toward Run to Replace Barney Frank
“It is a commitment instilled in me at a young age and one that inspired me to join the Peace Corps after college and to become a prosecutor after law school.” The son of former Rep.