Bingaman Holds Key in N.M.
Those who know Bingaman say he still enjoys serving in the Senate, is confident enough about his prospects for re-election, and doesn’t appear eager to slide into a lucrative lobbying post if he
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Those who know Bingaman say he still enjoys serving in the Senate, is confident enough about his prospects for re-election, and doesn’t appear eager to slide into a lucrative lobbying post if he
Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) will seek re-election in 2006. “We’re running,” Burns said in an interview this week.
“We prefer to define ourselves and not let Republicans define us,” said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).
In meetings with senior House and Senate Democratic Members and staffers over the past week, Garin emphasized that the party “ought to be playing offense” on the issue, emphasizing the “peril is
-based organization endorsed Byrd in last year’s Senate race but did little more on his behalf.
Still recovering from an electoral whitewash in 2004, Missouri Democrats are pointing toward the 2006 re-election race of Sen.
Whittington RHODE ISLAND Report: Brown Recruits Senate Race Volunteers Secretary of State Matt Brown (D) appears to be moving closer to running for Senate in 2006.
On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) along with Minority Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Finance ranking member Max Baucus (Mont.) met with Democratic pollster Geoff Garin to review their
Republicans regularly pilloried Kerry last year, saying that he had accomplished little legislatively in 20 years in the Senate — and that by glossing over his Senate tenure during his stump speeches
Several other Democrats will be working for the publishing magnate’s re-election campaign as well.
In Kennedy’s suburban 6th district just north of the Twin Cities, political neophyte Patty Wetterling (D) made a strong showing against Kennedy in his re-election bid last year.
Debbie Stabenow (D) in fairly good shape for re-election in 2006.
Danielson, a firefighter from Waterloo, pointed out that his victory in a Republican-held open state Senate seat in November concluded roughly four years straight on the stump.
Hoyer is totally focused on taking back the House and he has no plans to run for anything other than re-election and House Majority Leader when Democrats are back in the majority in 2007,” said Stacey
George Nethercutt (R-Wash.), who broke his three-term pledge in 2000 and lost a Senate race last year. By contrast, now-Sen.
By 2002, Jarding had re-emerged at the center of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Jarding first aligned with the campaign of North Carolina Sen.
After a leak in summer 2002 from a joint House-Senate inquiry into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Goss and his Senate counterpart, then-Chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.), ordered the Justice Department
Other Democrats who have expressed interest in the Senate race include former Rep. Joe Hoeffel, who lost to Sen.
After a two-year retirement, Lautenberg came back to the Senate a lowly freshman — in a Senate where Democrats had just lost their narrow majority, making the party unable to provide Lautenberg with
Associate Senate Historian Donald Ritchie is one who is skeptical that the arrangement can be sustained for four more years.