Bingaman Aide Ponders Challenge to Rep. Wilson
From a purely political standpoint, the revelations could be more damaging to Wilson than to Domenici, who has built up a tremendous amount of goodwill with New Mexico voters during his 35-year Senate
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From a purely political standpoint, the revelations could be more damaging to Wilson than to Domenici, who has built up a tremendous amount of goodwill with New Mexico voters during his 35-year Senate
Jay Rockefeller (D), who is up for a fifth term next year, is said to be in the driver’s seat for re-election absent a challenge from Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R).
“If we can avoid further retirements and re-elect our incumbents, we’re going to be roughly where we are” now.
In an interview Friday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he was not certain whether he supported the legislation, but that he expected the Senate to approve it now that it has
With the GOP maintaining a unified front against Democratic efforts to end the Iraq War, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other party leaders are abandoning efforts at crafting a bipartisan
But there was some concern that a fourth seat would force Utah’s three current House Members to run in a special election, just months after they won re-election.
“And the filing deadline [for the Senate race] is February.”
Jim McCrery (R) told Roll Call in January that he preferred to run for re-election to the House. Rep.
Speaking broadly, the DCCC is targeting suburban districts, which Van Hollen sees as especially ripe for Democrats, and Republican incumbents who won re-election by 10 points or less in 2006.
Tim Johnson’s (D-S.D.) slow but steady recovery from a stroke has done no apparent political damage to his 2008 re-election hopes.
[IMGCAP(1)] Before moving to Capitol Hill, Yancey worked as deputy research director for Jim Pederson’s 2006 Senate campaign. In 2004, he was an intern on Sen.
officeholder could be vulnerable if he follows through on his plans to seek re-election.
“If Rehberg were to jump into the Senate race, other Republicans would likely stay out,” Farrell said.
Given Reid’s narrow majority in the Senate, Democrats will find it all but impossible to pass a bill that goes as far as many in the party’s left wing will want.
Pat Roberts in Kansas understands that he’s going to have to work a lot harder than he’s ever worked on re-election before. The nice thing is he knows it.”
In the two-plus years since they last stood side by side in the Senate Democratic leadership, Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) and the man he succeeded, former Sen.
But with Democrats in control, the NBWA, like other business groups, is in the process of re-evaluating its lobbying agenda and how the estate-tax issue, a poison pill for many Democrats, fits in.
Last year alone, domestic carmakers spent more than $20 million on their lobbying efforts, according to Senate reports.
But that is all Washington, D.C., and Jefferson’s focus since his re-election in a December runoff is all New Orleans.
“In positions like that, you’d go to one of those people — most probably someone who is not up for re-election — and say, ‘We really need you on this,’” said Thune, hinting that Snowe would likely