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Senate seats don’t open up too often in Massachusetts, so one can forgive Bay State pols for coveting Sen.
Staying in the Golden State, politically speaking, former California Secretary of State Bill Jones (R) has put the finishing touches on his campaign team for his hastily arranged Senate run.
The real political fight will come not during the budget process but rather during the appropriations season, when the House and Senate square off and many self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives fight
Ryall managed the 1998 re-election campaign of the late Sen. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.). — Lauren W.
In “Master of the Senate,” Caro carefully explains LBJ’s brilliance at political gymnastics.
With the race thrown wide open by Monday’s Iowa caucuses, Senate Democrats said they are coming under increasing pressure to endorse — particularly those Members whose states are voting on Feb. 3
Jeb Bush’s (R) victorious re-election campaign in 2002 and his position as communications director for Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) presidential bid in 2000.
The senior staff at President Bush’s re-election headquarters in Northern Virginia had a special guest at their morning meeting Tuesday: comedian Dennis Miller, who’s about to launch a new show on CNBC
— Nicole Duran SOUTH CAROLINA Beasley Adds Confusion To GOP Senate Contest Former Gov.
Nevertheless, Murray is not the only Democratic Senator up for re-election who is talking a lot about mad cow disease.
Come the 109th Congress, assuming Republicans retain their Senate majority, nearly all of the most influential committees in the Senate will see new GOP leadership.
Four years later, Bush’s re-election campaign hasn’t yet named an official House liaison, and it’s not going to.
Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) announced Friday that she will not run for Senate — at least not this year.
The legislation was scuttled in the Senate last year after it came under fire from liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike.
Rudd managed Hollings’ 1992 and 1998 successful re-election bids. Hollings is retiring in 2004. Rudd also has a strong relationship with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle.
In fact, Common Cause’s outspoken criticism of then-President Richard Nixon’s re-election committee, better known as CREEP, resulted in a General Accounting Office audit of the independent nonprofit
He turned down an opportunity to run for governor in 2002 for another term in the Senate and is seen as a possible successor to Daschle when the leader voluntarily steps down or if he fails to win re-election
Senate Recruiting: Wins and Losses Meanwhile, the Senate battleground also appears largely set, with a maximum of 15 races likely to determine the partisan makeup of the chamber next Congress
Menendez clearly has higher ambitions, having been mentioned as the future House Democratic leader and repeatedly for Senate in the Garden State.
Green Party officials, left without their well-known standard bearer this year, hope to replicate Nader’s influence on the Congressional level by running candidates in 60 to 80 high-profile House and Senate