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After a career that included working as an aide on Capitol Hill and serving in both chambers of the Illinois Legislature where he rose to become Senate floor leader Rep.
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After a career that included working as an aide on Capitol Hill and serving in both chambers of the Illinois Legislature where he rose to become Senate floor leader Rep.
Theyre less well-known than most political consultants, and there are fewer of them.
. In Senate races, the PAC has endorsed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich (D), who is challenging Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska); comedian Al Franken (D), who is running against Sen.
The situation isnt a complete surprise, since Eckhart ran for the state Senate four years ago as an Independent against Stivers.
Mark Warner (D), who is running for Senate.
John Cornyn (R-Texas) informed his Senate GOP colleagues Tuesday that he plans to donate $250,000 out of his re-election account to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
John Sununu (R) is running for re-election against former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D), whom he defeated in 2002.
Tim Johnson (D) is on statewide television with a campaign ad that features him and his wife discussing why he chose to run for re-election in the wake of an illness that kept him out of the Senate for
Summers faces former Common Cause President Chellie Pingree (D) in November, though the Democrat is favored to win the seat that Allen is giving up to run for the Senate.
Ronnie Musgrove (D), who was running a tight re-election race against Republican Haley Barbour.
Some Republicans privately whisper that in a conservative state like Alaska, their prospects for holding Stevens seat might improve if the veteran Senator abandons his re-election bid.
In 2007, one of the first things Senate Democrats did after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made his ceremonial peace gesture was to establish a war room. Its a bipartisan pattern, of
a 2006 judicial candidate from the state, is at the forefront of a long raging judicial debate over the constitutionality of provisions of public financing schemes, including potentially House and Senate
Sources described significant movement toward a TAA compromise during talks in recent weeks between the White House, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley
Centrist Democrats are going to be key to his overall message, and thats where were looking to pick up a lot of seats as well, an aide to one New Democrat said.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) said last week at a joint news conference with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Were
. You give up the right to complain if youre not part of the solution, he said. We have to double, triple, quadruple the numbers this time.
[IMGCAP(1)]We thought that itd be really nice to start a book club so the military legislative assistants and professional staff members can have a better understanding of what it is that were
Only one cleared the Senate, last April, and President Bush vetoed it.
Its one of the questions were going to have to ask, Skaggs acknowledged.