Ryan Gets Rock-Star Treatment From Wisconsin GOP
Other Republican candidates, including gubernatorial nominee Scott Walker and Senate nominee Ron Johnson, served as opening acts, but Ryan was the main attraction.
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Other Republican candidates, including gubernatorial nominee Scott Walker and Senate nominee Ron Johnson, served as opening acts, but Ryan was the main attraction.
Kit Bond, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The Senate could prove just as acrimonious and bogged down in 2011 as it was during the past 20 months, according to Capitol Hill players and political observers.
Feingold, who faces a serious re-election challenge this fall from Republican Ron Johnson, said he enjoys the meetings. “It’s basically the best thing I do as a Senator,” he said.
The Alaska Senate race grew more interesting Friday night as GOP Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) called their inclusion “a pure political act for Harry Reid, who is worried about is own re-election and that of the Democrats in the Senate.”
And assuming Democrats retain control of the Senate — a prospect made more likely by the defeat of Rep.
Frank Lautenberg said the president should re-evaluate the roles of Emanuel and all top White House aides to begin “righting the ship.”
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who is running for re-election this year, has at least three such committees that have collected more than $1 million each.
The Senate Minority Leader paid off a mortgage valued at $100,000 to $250,000 on his Capitol Hill row house in 2009.
Through Tuesday’s primaries, more than 98 percent of House and Senate incumbents seeking re-election won their primaries.
McCain blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for attaching both the DREAM Act and a proposal to end the use of secret holds in the Senate to the measure.
Murkowski would have strolled to an easy re-election win, but with Democrats having their own weak Senate nominee, even Miller looks like a solid favorite. In Colorado, former Lt. Gov.
Jim DeMint has been a gadfly in the Senate GOP Conference for years thanks to his crusade of enforcing a strict conservative orthodoxy on his colleagues.
In the short term, victories by former fringe candidates Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Sharron Angle in Nevada diminish — but do not eliminate — GOP chances of taking control of the Senate
She might even be stripped of her ranking status on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
No Members would speak on the record about Steele’s re-election prospects, but privately, several offered their discouragement.
The Nevada Democrat, who is in a tough re-election fight in a state with a fast-growing Hispanic population, announced Tuesday that he would add the provision to the defense bill, which the Senate
The Badger State’s Senate race is expected to get top billing, and businessman Ron Johnson on Tuesday became the Republican nominee to race Sen. Russ Feingold (D).
But in the Senate it’s important … that everybody have a chance to be heard out before decisions are made.”