‘Compassion’ Is Out the Window In GOP Budgets
The Senate budget goes into paper balance by failing to sustain beyond five years the levels of defense spending that Bush has projected.
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The Senate budget goes into paper balance by failing to sustain beyond five years the levels of defense spending that Bush has projected.
Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) remains undecided on a re-election bid — although he did hold a fundraiser last week — and Sen.
Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.) has revamped his political operation, putting a stronger emphasis on fundraising for his own re-election but also working numerous party events into his national
He served two terms before losing his his re-election bid in 1968 in a tight race against Republican Martin McKneally, a former national commander of the American Legion.
Former Senate aide Nick Wise and his six-person firm, Wise & Associates, has signed up several new clients, including a company concerned about the taxation of halon — a low-toxicity, chemically stable
— Josh Kurtz ARKANSAS Huckabee Uses Senate Run as Statehouse Stick Gov.
The Senate passed a resolution last week authorizing the Majority Whip to provide an affidavit in a Kentucky court case involving his former aide, Hunter Bates.
Gary Locke (D), already facing at least one strong challenger in his own party, run for re-election?
The coalition is building off its successful “virtual march on Washington,” in which it succeeded in jamming Senate telephone lines last month with calls and faxes from constituents who oppose war
Indeed, before ascending to the Senate in 1952, he toiled for 17 years in the relatively obscure political perch of moderator for Greenwich, Conn., town meetings.
Duncan said that Conoco re-injects 8.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas back into the Earth each day because a sufficient pipeline does not exist.
A variety of fundraisers with House and Senate clients said it is unlikely that a mediocre showing in the March report would doom a candidate’s chance at re-election.
During a tight re-election campaign last fall, he expressed serious misgivings about rushing into war with Iraq unilaterally without exhausting diplomatic efforts.
Two years ago, the Senate landscape favored Democrats. While Republicans had more seats at risk (and more open seats), the party still made gains and won control of the Senate.
If Boyd does run for Senate, he is likely to face at least one of his House colleagues. Rep.
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) is also sounding like a man who wants to run for the Senate — again.
Bond won his Senate seat in 1986 after serving two nonconsecutive terms as governor.
“We hope that as Jim reflects on his actions, he will decide not to seek re-election to the House of Representatives,” the group wrote.
Even in Winston’ s poll, only one in 10 respondents could identify the Estrada filibuster as an issue they associated with Senate Democrats.
“I think you’ll see it start moving again in six to eight months,” predicted Vautour, pointing to the end of the first session of the 108th Congress and the beginning of re-election campaigns for