House Votes to Freeze Members’ Salaries for 2011
The bill now has to go to the Senate for a final vote. But if it passes, as is expected, Members will face a third year with the same salary of $174,000.
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The bill now has to go to the Senate for a final vote. But if it passes, as is expected, Members will face a third year with the same salary of $174,000.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) maintained Tuesday he will bring up climate legislation ahead of an immigration bill, noting the former “is much farther down the road in terms of a product
After dropping in and out of bipartisan negotiations with Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Shelby has re-emerged as the GOP point man in the debate over Wall Street
A comprehensive look at where the 50 general election state directors are today shows that former Obama operatives have key positions in Democratic efforts to hold control of the Senate in the November
Scott Brown is on the path to re-election? [IMGCAP(1)]Frankly, I never thought Brown had a ghost of a chance to win the late Sen.
John McCain is running for a fifth term, and Kyl has made his top priority the re-election of his friend and home-state colleague to whom he has grown increasingly close.
The Senate Budget Committee approved Chairman Kent Conrad’s (D-N.D.) austere budget blueprint last week on a 12-10 vote — losing deficit hawk Sen.
They join other already endorsed candidates, including incumbents running for re-election, such as Reps. John Kline (Minn.) and Erik Paulsen (Minn.), Sens.
Looming is the possibility of gut-check votes on a repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on openly gay soldiers from serving, on a budget in the face of record deficits and, if the Senate
Yet despite different concerns about Afghanistan policy on both sides of the aisle, Congress has been re-enacting its performances in Vietnam and Iraq.
With an Independent bid for Senate by Florida Gov.
Either way, he could decide which party would control the Senate for the last two years of President Barack Obama’s term.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee last month gave the maximum direct contributions to the re-election campaigns of Sens. Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Russ Feingold (Wis.).
Schumer in 2006 and 2008 led the Democrats to a total of 14 Senate seat pickups, and he outraised the National Republican Senatorial Committee by leaps and bounds partly because his constituents in lower
According to Senate Democratic aides, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed during a Tuesday afternoon meeting that a “moral imperative” exists to
Shelby noted that he hopes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) “would give us enough time to finish what we started.”
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the likely Democratic nominee for the Nutmeg State’s open Senate seat, has tapped Mindy Myers to run his campaign.
John Boozman (R) suddenly announced in early February that he was forgoing re-election to run for Senate, Womack threw his hat into the ring and raised $142,000 in less than two months. State Sen.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he expects the financial regulatory reform package to hit the floor this week or early next week, and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.
A conservative ethics watchdog called Monday for a Federal Election Commission inquiry into spending by Massa’s re-election campaign, including a $40,000 payment to former Chief of Staff Joe Racalto