Outlook for Democrats
Democrats were talking optimistically about winning control of the Senate.
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Democrats were talking optimistically about winning control of the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) recently conveyed this warning to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.).
Seeking to invigorate his so-far dormant Senate campaign, North Dakota attorney Mike Liffrig (R) has launched a series of controversial ads attacking Sen.
The event is slated to include remarks by former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) at a press conference prior to a screening. Sources said that Rep.
In 1974, Owens upset a machine-backed candidate to win a state Senate seat. Eight years later, when trailblazing Rep.
Tony Knowles (D) in the tight Senate race.
with the re-election efforts of Republican Senators — especially those, such as Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, in tight races.
Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) delivered a rousing address, telling attendees that President Bush deserves to be re-elected and prompting the crowd to break into shouts of “Four more years.”
But there were no fireworks when Miller strode into the Senate chamber last night to vote for one of Bush’s judicial nominees.
But Senate Republican leaders appear skeptical of the merits of Roberts’ far-reaching bill.
Stratton’s father, Sam Stratton, held the Albany-area seat from 1958 to 1988, and his surprising retirement announcement during his re-election campaign paved the way for McNulty, then a state Assemblyman
When Murkowski won the governorship, he appointed his daughter Lisa to his old Senate seat.
Nevada voters will also go to the polls today, to select a Republican challenger to Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid (D) and challengers to the state’s three House incumbents.
The shoe dropped later that spring when Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) finally did call Rawls and convinced him to return to the Senate as his chief of staff, his fourth tour of duty
This is a little difficult for some people, but we’ve got to go home and get to work if we want this president re-elected, and that’s what they’re saying.”
In 2002, Norton won re-election with 93 percent of the vote after the D.C. Republican Party opted not to field a candidate. If the history of failed Republican bids for D.C.
Arlen Specter’s (R) re-election contest. Both D’Amato and Specter were elected to the Senate in 1980 and remain close friends.
The convention, naturally, is all about the president and his re-election. Members of Congress are here in New York and visible, but most are secondary or tertiary figures this week.
Meanwhile, slightly fewer than 9,500 New Yorkers have contributed a total of $10.6 million to Bush’s re-election campaign.
It’s a signature that appears on all legislation passed by the Senate, as well as treaties, nominations and the paychecks of some 6,500 Senate employees.